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| Oh no, there's metal in your records! Old 78 rpm discs were made of shellac (dried insect resin aka lacquer) mixed with things like carbon black, cotton floc, limestone, rottenstone, barytes, slate, quartz, and pumice.From Wikipedia: Exact formulas for this compound varied by manufact... | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? Are powerful amps only for low sensitivity speakers? No. My 4-way hybrid-horn/dipole system is powered by eight identical Class D amplifiers. Each amp is rated 175W RMS, 325W peak power into 8 Ohms.The compression driver mid horns and tweeters are... | |
| Hypex N core module noble100 -You wrote, "the thought struck me that this poor performance may be a result of a very revealing amp combined with poorly engineered and/or poorly recorded source material." I agree, in my experience the better your system, the more re... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? The post above was meant for kosst_amojen, in reply to his comments about dispersion on page 3 `zbeing necessary for good imaging. Don't know why it didn't post on the same page.Anyhow, wide dispersion don't help imaging. At all. | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? One advantage of horns suitable for home listening is narrow dispersion. Wide dispersion is not good for center-chair listening. Horns beam like lasers, and to me this is a good thing, fewer nasty sidewall reflections.I am not into wide-dispersion... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? There's nothing wrong with horns that a little effort can't fix.Altec A-7 VOTTs can be made to sound good, same with Altec Valencias, JBL L300s etc., but they do need work, better crossovers, bracing, damping etc..Vintage horn systems with folded ... | |
| Matching power amp for Melos SHA-1 preamp? I have owned a SHA-1 for more than 20 years and it works very well with every amp I ever tried it with ( I don't even own headphones ). It has very low output impedance so almost any type of amp is fine. It does have high gain so 10 dB voltage spl... | |
| Nuforce Ref 9 SE I recently upgraded my NuForce amps from REF 9 V2 to REF 9 V3 SE. I also had my NuForce MCH V2 SE CH7 7 channel amp upgraded to V3 status.I bought the NuForce amps 2nd hand on Audiogon - the mono amps started out as REF 9's and were upgraded initi... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? The best speakers I ever heard are my custom 4-way horns : Two 1954 Klipschorns with JBL 1504C's below 100 Hz ; short, straight 1:1 compression ratio exponential-curve horns with 50's vintage JBL 130A's between 100 Hz and 500 Hz ; round tractrix h... |