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| New Digital Switching Amplifiers Personally I dislike the entire working principle of digital amps(aka class D,PWM). First of all the introduction of a convertor into the signal chain(converts the analog signal into a pulse-width modulated one),then the fact that the transistors ... | |
| Active studio monitors or Hi-fi speakers Trade offs:HiFi: good looks, 'nice' sound, excessive profit margins (some)Monitor: potentially ugly, accuracy, value for moneyI'd go with Genelecs or Dynaudio monitors, maybe the ones with built in convertors (forego usb and connect directly to co... | |
| Vintage Tannoy's,,what are your amps? Damn right Tannoys like their juice!As a rule of thumb the more clean power you can give them the better they get! That said I was amazed by the transformation after going active.The only way to describe it is that they now have the clarity and mi... | |
| Vintage Tannoy's,,what are your amps? I am running my Tannoy LRM's fully active, using a BSS 360 x-over.These have the (necessary) two-band parametric eq build in.Amplifiers are a MC2 Audio MC450 for bass duties and a QSC CSX4 for treble.These are now the most accurate speakers I have... | |
| I am not an opera fan...but... Of course 'Die Fledermaus' (The Bat) is not an opera but an operetta ie. they talk as well as sing! Aahh that brings back memories of working with a polish ensemble showing 'Die Fledermaus' on New Year's Eve (its a tradition) in Berlin! Don't thin... | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons I hear what you are saying about xovers, Roy.But the fact remains that in there own pass bands tweeter and woofer are working 90deg apart. If I now want to replay say a large cymbal with a fundamental at 440Hz and strong harmonics all the way beyo... | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons So by "phase coherent" you really mean that a first order filter remains entirely true to its 90deg phase separeation between tweeter and woofer?Thats a new definition to me, maybe we have to start with defining every term properly first.Also a sp... | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? '85 Mercedes 280 TEMoney no object i'd get these:'68 Mercedes 600 SWB'68 Mercedes 280 SEC 3.5Land Rover Defender SWB'70's Citroen SM'72 Renault Alpine A110Iso GrifoJensen FF'63 Facel-Vega 2'64 Buick Riviera | |
| Phase Coherence or Time Alignment: Which More Imp? Thanks Roy,indeed these difficulties can be minimized with careful design!Thats why I use Tannoy LittleReds. It uses a combination offirst and second order filters. The phase response curve shows it to shift the entire audio spectrum uniformly by ... | |
| First Order Crossovers: Pros and Cons Every step up in xover order shifts the phase between tweeter and woofer by an additional 90deg. This means for maximum phase-coherence the obvious choices are second order (180deg shift so you just invert the connections to one driver to get it a... | |
| Phase Coherence or Time Alignment: Which More Imp? How is it possible to build a phase-coherent speaker using 1st order filters?I learned in electronics that a 1st order filter (ie 6dB slope) shifts the phase between woofer and tweeter by 90deg;a second order (12dB slope) by 180deg; third order (1... | |
| A question of power AC voltages are given in the DC equivalent (ie the DC voltage necessary to do the same work) or RMS. This is done buy taking the peak voltage of the AC current and multiplying by the square root of 2 (0.707) . Thus the true peak of 120V AC is120 d... | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? In no particular order:Doug WimbishJah WobbleBill LaswellBilly"Bass"NelsonDonald"Duck" DunnRobbie ShakespeareIt's a groove thing.ps A message to all bassists:If your bass has more than 5 strings and you're given to noodlingbe a MAN and get a guitar! | |
| Ls 3/5a sound without the price..... The BBC replaced their LS3/5's with dynaudioacoustic BM5's.Might be worth a try and they are cheap as well. | |
| Mackie HR824 I would suggest Dynaudio BM6A's.They don't go as low as the Mackies but they are also tighter in the bass and the treble is one of the best. They use the same tweeter as Dynaudios mega-buck studio systems. |