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| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Ported speakers tend to require more experimentation to get setup optimized than sealed speakers. The payoff, if you can find a good placemeny, is higher efficiency. This IS a big deal to those who like low powered amps (like me). I have a loca... | |
| Stacking It is hard to guess what will happen. For one thing, you will now be seated much lower with respect to the height of the drivers, particularly, the midrange and tweeter. You might have to angle the speaker downward to restore the same axis to ge... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers With horn compression drivers, typically used for midrange and high frequency drivers, air is confined in a chamber and this does effectively increase impedance to allow for a better coupling of the driver to the air. This certainly does improve ... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers The transmission line speakers I heard had very tight bass and sounded quite good. They were also reasonably compact and did not require a lot of depth. The various folded horns, like the Tannoy speakers, sound really good, although the bass did... | |
| Differences Between Folded Horn Speakers and Transmission Line Speakers Quarter wave back loaded horns have a constantly expanding cross section to the folded horn. That expansion prevents standing waves from developing in the horn. A transmission line has a more constant cross section and has to have a lot of dampi... | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical While I am interested in the debate about different technologies, and why various approaches are superior or measure better, in the end, I make choices based on what sounds good to me, and that almost never correlates with measurements. Among the... | |
| Anyone want to share your speaker sound around NY? If you can get to Somerset NJ, you could visit Charney Audio and hear their fery good speakers. They are very successful with working with single drivers-very dynamic, as you would expect, but also rich and smooth sounding. They are also very ef... | |
| How much power needed to drive 91db speakers? I was at a dealership yesterday chatting with two other customers who own very expensive 12 watt amps. We were listening to custom built horn systems and I assumed that is what we all ran. I was surprised that one ran a pair of 89 db/w tower spe... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade Recommendations I like your whole system. Not only are the individual components very good, they work well as a system. I particularly like Synthesis amps driving AN-E speakers. Your Koetsu fits in well. The area to explore is cables. Lexus is very rich soun... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer I am a fan of Acrosound trannies too, particularly the TO-330. | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer I recently heard that Acrosound amp. It sounded very good. My concern with it was with how hot it ran. The owner has had it a long time, so it appears to be durable, but I found that amount of heat a bit troubling. | |
| Don't Neglect to check your Caps! Caps in speakers can vary widely in terms of longevity. Film caps and paper in oil caps can last a very long time and some ancient caps are still very much sought after for their sound quality. I Have heard fantastic systems built recently that ... | |
| Best Vintage tube amp / preamp manufacturer Marantz vintage gear looks fantastic and has held value very well, but, the sound , to me anyway, is a bit disappointing. The same with most McIntosh gear--fantastic looking and decent sounding but the sound is not commensurate with the price of ... | |
| Unusual countries for audio gear I was impressed with the speakers and DAC from Cinnamon Audio (Portugal) that I heard at Capitol Audiofest thisbpadt November. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project I am not in the hunt for any tube. I already have my preferred tube and I expect it to outlast me. My only significant concern is with securing enough output tubes in my amp to last to the end. I run four 349 output tubes. Those are very rare ... |