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| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? Ultimately, it is a matter of taste, and it is entirely possible for a much cheaper amp to fit one’s taste better than an expensive amp and that is not a knock on the expensive amp. This Saturday I talked with a shop owner who just completed a sa... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I suppose there is a price point beyond which any design can be built with a reasonable profit margin. What that is is not so clear. Some designs can be surprisingly expensive when it comes to parts. The input and output transformers on my amp a... | |
| Has anyone gone from Tannoy to Zu Audio? All of the Zu speakers I heard were extremely dynamic an d lively sounding, but, they were also bright, harsh and one gets tired when listening in sessions longer than a few minutes. This is really a matter of taste, so one must hear the speaker.... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? I have heard quite a number of big, high efficiency systems running multiple 18" drivers (e.g., Western Electric M10, G.I.P. reproductions of M10, Goodman 18" permanent magnet and fieldcoil woofers) and they deliver the speed, impact, and tonality... | |
| Dead Wax runout length on Remastered LP's As long as the grooves are not so close together that they touch or the thinness of the area between the grooves becomes extreme enough to adversely affect the way the grooves deform under the pressure of the stylus, closer together is better beca... | |
| "High end speaker covers" do we need them? I don't have covers and I don't bother to clean the speakers--I call it "dust damping" and I rationalize this as improving the sound. | |
| What measurements from the rear wall? Any recommendation on placement is just a rough guide. The specific location that works the best can only be determined by trial. You can jst try moving the speaker on a somewhat random basis, and in time you will find a good location (this can ... | |
| Green Mountain Audio A local dealer has drivers re-foamed all the time. He has a tech that can do it, but, it takes the tech hours to do a pair, while the place they use charges $50 to do the job. The commercial operations can even do extremely delicate work, like r... | |
| Green Mountain Audio The chances of finding a suitable drop in replacement driver is extremely remote. Drivers have so many different operating parameters that have to be considered in the initial design of a speaker, and the driver must be matched to other drivers t... | |
| Whizzer cone drivers I have heard, and liked several woofer-assisted wide band speakers. The Cube Audio Nenuphar Basis is a good example. It is not just that the woofer adds lower frequency support, the overall sound, including the midrange and upper frequencies sou... | |
| Whizzer cone drivers Kingharold, You have an interesting system. I’ve heard, and really liked, the BD3 driver and I also like Fostex bullet tweeters, particularly when they are crossed in very high up in frequency. What kind of woofers do you use, and what horn load... | |
| What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you? That Lou Reed track is indeed interesting as far as vocal placement is concerned. The backing female singers start way back in the soundstage (low in volume with a lot of reverb) and then, while they are singing, the volume increases and the amou... | |
| Whizzer cone drivers There is not one driver or speaker that is for everyone, so I have no problem with someone not liking whizzer cone speakers. I have heard, a liked, a small number of speakers employing such drivers so I don't rule them out categorically. Have yo... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I have terrific sounding recordings in both digital and analogue format, so I am not taking sides. But, the notion that digital is so deleterious that it is unlistenable is ridiculous. On a Chesky test CD/Jazz sampler, they have a music recordin... | |
| Whizzer cone drivers Charney offers several choices for their full-range driver. I've heard the Voxativ and AER driver in their Companion line of speakers. I like the AER more than I do the Voxativ, but, both drivers are excellent in that speaker. I find the Charne... |