eldartford
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| Eye-brain effect Absolutely true. Eye and ear senses do naturally work together. In particular, think how much easier it is to understand spoken word when you can watch the other person's lips. Some deaf people can learn to understand speech from lip movement alon... | |
| Using an amplifier with variable gain The best thing (in theory) would be to use a fixed attenuator (couple of resistors) at the power amp input, so that both pots can be near maximum. However, in practice, unless the power amp gain pot is noisy, setting it lower than maximum will be ... | |
| If you had $500 to spend, how would you spend it? High End hookers cost at lot more than $500 (so I am told).Buy some really good Audiophile digital discs... $30 or more a pop. Not only will this be a good use of the $500, but it may save you many thousands of dollars that you will otherwise spen... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... Sean...Any wife will tell you...it is a joke. As NP himself says..."I have to SMILE when I see that all this effort barely gets us below 50 Hz".Somehow the use of a long horn to enhance LF response seems inconsistent with what the FR people cite a... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... I just read Nelson Pass's writeup on his "Kleinhorn". Surely this was intended for the April issue of some magazine. | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... It just isn't fair to force an excellent midrange driver to perform woofer and tweeter duty. IMHO.:-) | |
| 4 ohm 8 ohm Try it. No damage. For a given signal input you will get more volts out to the speaker from the 8 ohm tap up until the point where the amp runs out of current capability. The amp will be capable of fewer watts with this impedance mismatch, but it ... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... Sean...I did learn about the Walsh driver when the original Ohm speakers were introduced, and was very greatly impressed by the sound. I could not afford them then. Their ability to reproduce a squarewave, proven by scope photos, was remarkable, a... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... I was curious enough to review the Fostex line of drivers (used in Gmood1's Omegas). They are not all that expensive (at least some of them) and I have been known to buy stuff just to fool around with. I would use models that do not have any whizz... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question I had this posted by mistake on another thread. Here it is where it belongs.I used the example of the bow wave of a ship being "out of phase". In the news we have another example. When there is a Tsunami the initial effect is that the ocean retrea... | |
| Single vs Multiple driver loudspeakers... For low volume and music where powerful bass and high frequency are not important (or if you are an old fart who can't hear those high frequencires) a single driver can be a good choice.However, although a full range speaker is called "single driv... | |
| tube amp sound more engaging Superhonestben..."Gizzillion" watt amps are cheap. Good high efficiency speakers (like Khorns) are expensive. | |
| plauged by off center image, am I insane? Herman...My use of a center channel (for about three decades) is a direct result of the layout of my room. It has two French doors at one end, leaving three pieces of wall. If the center speaker were omitted the left and right would be much too fa... | |
| plauged by off center image, am I insane? Hifimaniac...You should not assume that I am ignorant of all that precise speaker positioning procedure. I went through that kind of exact positioning when I had a Carver preamp with the sonic "Hologram" feature. Yes, I could get the effect, but i... | |
| plauged by off center image, am I insane? The elaborate setup procedure described by Hifimaniac amazes me. If it is that hard to get good imaging you have serious defects in the speakers. I have absolutely no problem with vague imaging and I think the reason is as follows.1. Planar (MG1.6... |