larryi
Responses from larryi
| Do larger planar speakers produce more accurate sound? The Levinson HQD system was something I heard MANY years ago, so I cannot say how it would compare with other systems. It was more than stacked Quad 57s; it had a 24" Hartley woofer and Kelly ribbon tweeters. At the time, I thought it sounded ok... | |
| New Naim Forum As far as solid state amps go, I find the Naim gear suffers a bit less from the lifeless quality of most solid state amps when playing at lower volume levels (I am a low-powered tube fan). I do like their digital source components. I once owned ... | |
| Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ? To me it would be in the smooth and warm category more so than "fast." This is a bit of tricky dichotomy because some of the speakers that are characterized as fast, detailed, etc. give that impression by being a touch lean in the upper bass and ... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure I really like, with almost any reasonably efficient speakers, and some not so efficient, the Synthesis A-40 integrated amp (digital dac included). It utilizes KtT-66 tubes in pushpull to deliver 40 wpc. If you demand more power their A-100 amp de... | |
| Connecting Amp to speakers The correct answer is: spade, bare wire, pin (the small cross drilled hole in the shaft takes a solid pin attached to the wire), banana jack, and double banana jack. | |
| Connecting Amp to speakers I am lazy so I do like the ease of banana jacks. Here is an audiophile test question: Speakers frequently boast of having 5-way binding posts. What are the five ways that speaker wire can be connected to such posts? | |
| Sad news. I had a few conversations with him in his shop and in the audio store below his shop where he often hung out. I enjoyed his sense of humor. | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? Crossover components most certainly can get hot enough for thermal compression to be an issue. A friend of mine who repairs gear showed me a couple of inductors he took out of a pair of speakers that where played at a really high volume level. R... | |
| Thermal Distortion your loudspeaker most likely suffers from it. But do you care? It is usually referred to as thermal compression—as music gets louder (more current flowing), the heating of the voice coil means that any increase in the signal level does not result in a proportionate increase in sound level because the heated w... | |
| Concentric drivers I cannot recall who was the manufacturer, but I believe it was a builder of large panel speakers who extolled the virtues of law Doppler effect speakers (because of their large radiating surface, panels have quite small excursion, which reduces Do... | |
| Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ? Something like the Harbeth 30.2 and Falcon LS3/5A speakers are nice warm sounding speakers, but, for some reason the Boxers are overlooked and they are considerably cheaper than the likes of the Harbeth 30.2. They certainly should be auditioned. ... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? Perhaps it is not that easy to build a high efficiency speaker without incurring some other compromises or added cost. A lot of the efficiency loss is in the complex networks that are used in some crossovers. But, all those added elements are th... | |
| Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ? The warmest are Audio Note speakers. Classic Spendors are also good warm speakers. ProAcs, such as DB 3 are also nice, warm, speakers. Nola standmounts should also be considered. Any of the copies of BBC designs, such as Falcon speakers qualif... | |
| Concentric drivers All drivers, because they move forward and backwards will have doppler shifts associated with the movement. The shifts become potentially more of an issue where the driver covers a wide range of frequencies, for example, a wide range driver actin... | |
| Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s? What is new technology in speakers these days? I don't know of any major driver type that wasn't around since the 1970's or much earlier. Even something "exotic" like a plasma tweeter was something invented in the 1930's. The only more recent d... |