larryi
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| To horn or not to horn It is Deja Vu Audio in Northern Virginia. | |
| To horn or not to horn At my local shop, which makes it’s own custom horn systems using mostly vintage drivers, I recently hear two fantastic horn systems. One had a cabinet that is a copy of the Western Electric 753 cabinet. But, instead of a 713a driver, the speaker... | |
| Why do people say low power amps should be good for bookshelf speakers? It is either ignorance or the salesperson pushing a specific sale or a simplification of what is actually a little bit more complicated. Smaller speakers might tend to be more inefficient and they also tend to be not as capable of delivering very... | |
| What Was Your Favorite “Game Changer” Moment? I've experienced a number of pleasant surprises over the years. One of the early surprises, after hearing some Klipsch, Altec, JBL and Electro Voice horn systems, was hearing an Edgarhorn system that lacked the coloration that I thought was commo... | |
| Uber expensive repair at United Radio Minorl and abg2018, thank you for some good insight and personal experience. I think you have added to my understanding of what goes into a service request. Given how little the owner of the gear can actually know about the actual cost of the re... | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves When making a budget product, every nickel saved is significant. If better parts are used for the amp, it is a different product that would have to be sold at a significantly higher price point. For a lot of buyers of budget gear, even just $50 ... | |
| Seeking advice on power conditioners/regenerators I doubt that there is any place with really clean power. The power lines pick up all sorts of RFI and noise from neighbors sharing the same trunk feed. A typical home has its own share of noise sources--electronic devices, wi-fi, LED lights, etc... | |
| Uber expensive repair at United Radio It is often the case that repair places will charge a fixed rate for the diagnosis, such as the one hour time, even though it might take much longer. The fixed rate protects the customer; the customer is not charged for several hours only to find... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I refer to my system as a "Japanese" system (in fact, the Western Electric drivers came from Japan) because it is much like systems you will see in Japanese audio magazines. Such systems are crammed into tiny Japanese apartments. What they excel... | |
| CD vs.same CD ripped to HD I use a Naim UnitiCore to rip and store the CD data. It's ripper will read over and over the same spot if there is any problem to try and extract the correct data or determine what value to insert if it cannot read or it gets different results ea... | |
| Is $2,844 too much to pay for a fuse? It just seem strange hoping that your amp blows up in order to spare the fuse. | |
| To horn or not to horn phusis,I don't know who made the 12" drivers I have. They were part of a system made by an Italian firm named Strumenti Acustici Precisione which put them in a Jensen Onken cabinet. I bought the speakers about 18 years ago, and then later change... | |
| What is your favorite album cover? Among the albums I own, one of my favorites is the cover to Wes Montgomery's "Road Songs."https://www.allmusic.com/album/road-song-mw0000653406The nice music is a bonus. | |
| How do I break in a tube amplifier? I think you should just use the amp as you would normally do and let it break in on its own. It is not like it will sound horrible in the process, it just may, perhaps, not b at its best.My tube gear sounds quite decent after five to ten minutes ... | |
| To horn or not to horn phusis,My speakers are 99 db/w efficient. The midrange compression driver has considerably higher efficiency, which is why I have an L-Pad to reduce its output to match that of the woofers. I really like the sound of the 713b driver.My local dea... |