larryi
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| Open baffle speakers I recently heard, and liked, the OB speakers from Cinnamon Audio (Portuguese). It is a three-way with active amplification and DSP processing for only the bass driver. The DSP corrects for room acoustics and applies the appropriate bass boost to... | |
| Acoustic Panel Help A hard reflecting surface, like your OLED screen centered between the speakers is not necessarily a bad thing. This often actually helps to create a sense of focus or solidity of the center image. You can try covering it up with something like a... | |
| Maplenoll models, variants and customization The Maplenoll I owned had a lead platter. There was a coating on it to protect the owner from exposure to the lead. If your platter has such a coating, it might not be wise to try to remove it. | |
| Which Pure Audio Project Trio 15? I’ve heard the Quintet 15 with the horn, the trio 15 with the coaxial driver, the Trio 10 with the AMT driver and the Duet 15 with the Voxativ full range driver. The all sounded good. A young listener who has heard and helped assemble some very ... | |
| Battle of the Open Baffles I don’t know what was being run, but they shared the room with a company called AGD, so it probably was their gear. To me, the PAP speakers were the best bargain at the show. My other favorites—Songer fieldcoil speaker, Cinnamon open baffle and ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver An air bearing tangential arm is not subject to skating force. But, in order for the stylus/cantilever to drag the arm along the air bearing, even with little friction, a lot more force is required, in part because of the high horizontal inertia... | |
| Battle of the Open Baffles The Trio 10 with the AMT tweeter is a terrific sounding speaker. I heard this speaker at this year's Capital Audio Fest. I also heard, and was particularly impressed with the OB speaker from Cinnamon, a Portuguese company. This compact system i... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver The issue with tangential tracking arms of the air bearing or ultra low friction variety (e.g., Clearaudio) is that the arm does not have the mechanical advantage of a pivot/fulcrum, so considerable force is imparted on the stylus/cantilever to pu... | |
| Impedance question I take it that the subwoofer is a passive subwoofer? It still would be the case that you could try any of the taps to hear the result and not worry about harming anything. The supposedly wrong tap often sounds the best. | |
| Impedance question Just try the other tsp. You are not going to hurt either the amp or speaker. I don’t know about the specific impedance curve of your speakers, but generally speaking, the 4 ohm tap would minimize frequency response changes from speaker impedance... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Yes, I inadvertently said excessive anti-skating would pull the arm inward. The point I was trying to make is that, if the skip inward is not entirely a skating force, but, the momentum from falling off the edge bead, trying to use anti-skating t... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Most often, skipping inward has to do with the point a which the arm is set down and the speed at which the arm is set down. Records have a raised bead around the edge of the record to strengthen the record at its most exposed part, and in the ol... | |
| How do pack a pair of large speakers Even if you can purchase the box and packing material, the cost will be quite high because it has to be shipped to you and most of the fost of shipping is for the volume the box takes up. It can cost many hundreds of dollars to get a set of facto... | |
| How to bias a tube amp with a Multimeter It is easy to check the meter probe--just touch the two together when testing conductivity or resistance. Probes are often pretty cheaply built and the wires, because they are constantly being moved and stretched, often do break. That is a good ... | |
| Do speakers need to be re-broken in? AER BD 3's are really nice full range drivers. Do you have any specific plans on how they are going to be used? |