johnk
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| Fedex and Ups Damage thread The only way they pay insurance claims is if you use their packing service to ship. I had a preamp shipped FEDEX signature on delivery required. FedEx listed drop-off times 5 x before it actually arrived and it had slight damage. The seller had a ... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? Shearer designs were the 1st time and phase matching designs they also featured pattern control. The W bin many of the early Shearer designs used is still current in pro audio and in theaters. Shearer horns have a near realistic sound quality I ha... | |
| Gato speakers All small speakers sound small if that's OK with you then they appear to be a well-made small speakers. Doubt they are that much different than all the other small boxes that are sold today so I would suggest demoing a few doz in that 2k price ran... | |
| Does measurements really matter? A speaker needs to sound good that's what home loudspeakers are designed to do but to do so you need basic measurements all transducers and electrical parts used in loudspeakers are carefully designed and measured. So if the designer voices by ear... | |
| Dynaudio customer service ignoring me You can find a woofer from another company that would do the same work. Less of a difference in similar quality transducers than you think. | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? I design manufacture collect restore all types of loudspeakers I get my hands on the most advanced transducers many times far before they hit the market for consumers. I assist in the development of transducers. And I keep a Shearer horn about bec... | |
| American Made Audio Products While with some designs it’s hard to get all American-made inc fasteners etc. But on a few loudspeakers, I build every year I use 80% American no Chinese parts. All my cabinetry is hand-made in the WI USA with American materials glues and fastener... | |
| Discoloration on back of Martin Logan Quest speakers If its the painted MDF parts it could be mold growth clean as you would any molding item. | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? In the 1920s-30s, the world's largest corporations used nearly unlimited resources and the best engineers around to design almost all loudspeaker types we use today. Some from that era are still considered to be wonderful sounding and are highly d... | |
| Buying used vs new speakers from a technology perspective I still enjoy my 1940s RCA photophone horns the drivers are 80 years old or so they are still in spec and sound amazing. Even my jaded audio designing friends have had to rethink what was possible then and if we have made that much progress since. | |
| The panic selling of tube audio had begun. We may have still had tubes around if the panic buying didn't happen creating an instant shortage and high prices. It's not like sanctions had the instant effect of removing all russian tubes from stock. | |
| Law of Accelerated Returns There's is the better performing and there is the most costly in my findings much of high end is just adding zeros to prices to attract the wealthy into considering them worthy. YMMV | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? What about dipoles? They have a figure 8 radiation pattern the back wave being out of phase with the front they require to be pulled out into the room but between the loudspeakers, there is a null thus it will not be a problem to put gear between ... | |
| Speaker positioning: why do audiophiles neglect this so much? Audiophiles don't understand radiation patterns for if they did they would understand that only loudspeakers that don't have controlled directivity require no items to be placed around them. Where as those that do have radiation pattern control an... | |
| Would like to hear open baffle speakers DIY a pair not hard many kits abound or just research and go your own way. |