larryi
Responses from larryi
| Buying used vs new? As long as you are not reflexively jumping at a bargain, i.e., it is a model you want apart from the cheap price, you should go for the deal. Something like a preamp should last a lifetime and will not be significantly degraded in performance--i... | |
| How to design a high end crossover… There can be a whole lot more than picking crossover points, slope, and particular components. A lot of designs include networks to compensate for phase, to notch out certain frequencies, to fill in certain frequencies, etc. I saw an advertiseme... | |
| Movie Stars that can handle musical instrument well Myles Teller looked pretty realistic as a drummer in Whiplash. | |
| What are your top 5 Windham Hill recordings? The only one I ever wanted is Aerial Boundaries, which I found. It is a terrific record for content and sound quality. | |
| Only one speaker If you don't have a mono switch, you will, at a minimum, need a Y connector that combines the left and right signal into a single, summed, signal to feed the single amplifier (or channel) that will be powering your one speaker. I have heard a num... | |
| Speaker fq range, bass, low bass, low mids, mids.upper mids etc Mozartfan,From this, and other threads, I gather that you are a fan of the wide-range Voxativ and AER drivers. I am a fan of both companies too, but, that hardly makes everyone else "frauds," or "fakesters" or "snakeoil." I've heard dramatically... | |
| What speaker has the best tweeter? I don’t know if one can evaluate a tweeter alone, , in isolation from other drivers in a system. There are many fine examples, that can work well in the right system, such as Magneplanar ribbons, pleated ribbons (e.g. AMT), and one of my favorite... | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants Mozartfan,Can you list, without acronyms, the specific speaker systems you are referring to as being state of the art, particularly ones that have no crossovers at all? Aside from a small handful of cone driver speakers with just a single driver ... | |
| El34 = KT88 = KT120 Vienna sausage=boudin blanc=linguica. Well, it seems to be the case, at least to the dog the family had who would eat everything with the same gusto. | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants I can't follow the argument at all. If making a cap change makes the differences in the amps very evident, how can you then say the amps all sound essentially the same? | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants If you cannot hear a meaningful difference between a 6L6 a KT120, a single ended 45 or a single-ended 2a3, a KT88, 6550, a 300b, etc., either something is VERY wrong with the particular amps, the rest of the system, the room, or the ability of the... | |
| Speakers as the principle component/other components are servants While I don't dispute that speakers-- and the right choice to match one's particular taste and complement of components and the room acoustics-- is of primary importance, The choice of amplifier has a HUGE impact on the sound. I have been surpris... | |
| Embrace The Joy Of Microphonic Equipment I don’t know if microphonic proclivities improve sound, but, I’ve heard plenty of great sounding gear that utilized tubes that tended to be microphonic.I participated in a listening session to help a tube equipment designer/builder pick 310A tubes... | |
| What traditional dynamic speakers deliver a sonic signature similar to a horn speaker? Horn-based systems are the best at delivering the goods at low volume levels (which explains why they are popular with apartment dwelling Japanese audiophiles even though they take up a lot of valuable space). But, really good horn systems are ve... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing The idea of a true blind test is just a hypothetical; it is not something that could be implemented for gleaning any meaningful information. Just on speaker setup alone, it takes MANY hours just to set up one pair of speakers, and movement of jus... |