larryi
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| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I like Maggies too, but, as is the case with all speaker types and models, they have their own set of strengths and weaknesses that may not fit the particular priorities of any given listener. For me, the biggest issue is that they come alive at ... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” A lot of the horn and other high efficiency systems I like that manage to tame excessive midrange peaks and nasal colorations are quite expensive (e.g., Goto horn systems, G.I.P. Laboratory drivers, Feastrix drivers). The Charney, Volti and the K... | |
| Classical Top Five It would be extremely difficult to speculate what Mozart would have done with more years; I would expect really great things, but, who knows? Based on early accomplishments, Korngold should have been a musical giant; he was good, but not that goo... | |
| Classical Top Five brownsfan,I agree with you about Bach. I was just raising an argument about what counts as greatness and whether influence of future composers can arguably be the main measure. I also agree with you about the greatness of the St. Matthaus Passio... | |
| Classical Top Five Top five in what respects? If I had to pick the single greatest composer it would be J.S. Bach, but, in terms of influence on other composers, one could argue his son C.P.E. Bach was more influential (pioneer in early classical form) with dad sort... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I've heard the Charney Companion speakers at two audio shows and I was extremely impressed both times. This speaker system is a rarity--a single driver full-range system that does not have a rough, peaky response, has reasonably strong bass, and ... | |
| Nordost QKORE I don't own a QKore system, but I did hear an impressive demonstration at a dealership. The dealer's system was dead quiet prior to addition of the QKore, so the improvement was not merely from the removal of audible noise (I heard what you heard... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? I agree that if you arrange the speaker and room to obtain a wide area with some stereo imaging, you will compromise the imaging at the ideal spot in that area. If you utilize the extreme toe-in described above to trade off cues for loudness agai... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? Way back in the 1970's or early 1980's, Leslie (the organ speaker people) came out with a home speaker system that had a narrow dispersion, but uniform frequency response on and off axis, and the drivers positioned so that the response axis cross... | |
| push pull or single ended I think there is a lot of helpful advice in this tiny thread. The Carver 275 is a pretty good amp at very decent price. White the advice on a solid state alternative (First Watt F2) may not slake your curiosity over tube alternatives, it probabl... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? It largely depends on how rigorously one defines the sweet spot. The position where the center image is perfectly centered and everything else is ideal is almost always very small. The few occasions where I thought two people could sit side by s... | |
| "Use your mentality" is the worst lyric ever. "there's a bathroom on the right" | |
| push pull or single ended It is hard to offer any meaningful generalizations about the differences between pushpull and single-ended triode (SET) amps; there are many good and bad examples of both types. I am personally a fan of lower-powered tube amps and I own both SET ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. mijostyn,I agree that if horizontal mass is high enough, it raises concern with very low frequency resonance. I was just pointing out what is the theory behind the anisotropic arms. As long as the bass frequencies are above the low frequency res... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. lewm,You are describing the Moerch anisotropic arm I described above. I think the model is the DP8 or DP9. I have no idea if 25 gms is too high, I just know it is WAY higher than is common with conventional arms. In the past, some users of air ... |