mapman
Responses from mapman
| Why not horns? "Again, I'm not the one making the claims"No, but you are questioning them. All vendors make claims. If you have questions, you should ask and get the answers.I believe the claims to be true based on what I know of the design and what I hear. But ... | |
| Why not horns? "Perhaps some evidence to support those claims might be appropriate? "Perhaps.The OHMs seem to work and sound as claimed as best I can tell. I see no evidence to indicate false advertising or other less than honest business practices. Also I am su... | |
| Why not horns? "Mapman, I'm not sure that Ohm's current non-bending wave non-Walsh drivers qualify."I guess you'd have to take that up with John Strohbeen to know for sure. | |
| Why not horns? "Anyway, thats neither here nor there. Probably not the best choice of words to indicate that the idea of time coherency by design is exceedingly rare. To the best of my knowledge, only Vandersteen and Thiel on a consistent basis anymore."Also OHM... | |
| best recordings for a sense of scale http://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Are-Many-Sides-Night/dp/B000006XAUSomewhat classical perhaps, but this live mostly acoustic guitar recording by Steve Hackett (former guitarist of (Genesis) really conveys the acoustics of the hall it was recorded in ... | |
| Why not horns? "The better the technologies get the more they sound the same and that is simply because the better any technology gets, the more it sounds like real music."I can agree with that!And yes, I have heard horns that conform to this assertion as well! | |
| What is wrong with negative feedback? "There are no known speakers requiring a damping factor of over 20"I am not aware of any speakers that publish damping requirement specs. What are some?I am aware that different designs benefit differently from varios damping factors, but not that... | |
| Why not horns? ' I bet there aren't a handful of people here who have actually heard a front loaded bass horn of sufficient length and size like mine to properly produce a bass note.. Raise your hands.."I doubt it also. Hopefully that is not required in order to... | |
| Audiophile speakers that rock well OHM Walsh are still the best for me. And for most other kinds of music as well.Most everything else sounds merely like hifi speakers in comparison to me until one gets into certain esoteric megabuck systems where few will ever tread. | |
| Johnny Cash "Dying has never been documented so well."I think that is probably a true statement, at least in terms of music.Cash was unique in his ability to sing about things in his life that so many can relate to. I suppose its only appropriate that he know... | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music IRv,How do you know not getting the cymbals right was the speakers fault?Is it possible it could have been the rest of the system ie the amp, source or other component (even ICs) or at least that these factors contributed? | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music " I've only heard two speakers *ever* that got cymbals just right,"Which two?Thanks! | |
| DC Metro -- New YEs.Is GOTO the company that made the horn speaker system there? I have been trying to figure that out. I deduced the gentleman in the room was the designer, but I was not able to identify the company that made it. I assumed it was a custom design... | |
| Nakamichi PA-5 driving NHT 2.5i I think that is one of the Nelson pass designed Ss amps.For cost effectiveness with second hand gear, I suspect it would be hard to do better. I've come close to trying one of the better Nakamichi amps myself in recent years. Nakamichi was an affo... | |
| How does Boulder equipment avoid obsolescence? Think about which train you'd rather be on to get to your destination.A rock solid design with years of refinement and fine tuning behind it?The latest and greatest and yet unproven new design that tries to solve the same basic problem that has be... |