mapman
Responses from mapman
| Why not horns? Dan-ed,Those other issues you mention are some of the reasons why physical amplification (ie horns), which is one of the older audio technologies out there, have largely fallen out of popular favor and been replaced by other approaches. Isn't that... | |
| Why not horns? macrojack, I like your assertion that horns are essentially a form of mechanical amplification that can be done well, poorly, or anywhere in between.Unfortunately, my gut tells me that practically mechanical amplification is a preferred means of t... | |
| Speakers with many drivers... For best soundstage and imaging I like driver configurations that emulate a line source or ideally even approximate a point source while listening best. Configurations that diverge from a line or point source are more problematic in regards to sou... | |
| Why not horns? Actually, despite their huge differences in design, I suspect a good set of horns might be fine tuned in a manner to not sound all that different, but I doubt that this would be the case if left to chance.I also think the horns could be tuned to s... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player "There is a problem, as you said, that when going from a good CD Player to a better one, it does have a tendency to bring to light the difference in recordings."Recordings are what they are. Don't blame the CD player or system for them sounding di... | |
| How far do you sit from your speakers The OHMs are mostly omnidirectional so I can sit pretty much wherever I want and everything holds together quite well.In my big room with the OHM F-5s, the range is typically from 2 feet in front of the left speaker and a tad to the outside to a g... | |
| What makes a Cd player a Great cd player It's well designed and built.That doesn't necessarily mean it has to cost a fortune these days because the basic technology needed to do it well is fairly commonplace and also fairly widely understood these days. How different units are tuned to s... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "I own Shahinian Hawks. In the next few days, I will be setting up a pair of Ohm Walsh 200's alongside them."Should make for some interesting discussion! | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? " it could have been that cool bossa nova/samba rhythm that drew him in.'Probably.10 minutes later "Whodunnit" by Genesis of Abacab was playing and same thing happened. That's got a cool rhythm of a different type. | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? I was playing Stan Getz "The Girl From Ipanema" and my 14 year old son got off his Xbox and walked in the room to see what was playing. That doesn't happen very often! It did sound VERY good! | |
| Anyone Use A CD Recorder For Main Play Back? I have for a number of years. My Denon replaced a California Audio Labs icon Mkii that croaked nicely.Most of my playback comes of the music server these days, but thats no fault of the player/recorder. | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? " I hat"d Grand Funk Railroad."Big mistake! They were an awesome power trio! Cream got all the love from the critics. | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? not so "vacuous tawdry consumerism" at its best! | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? Actually, some visiting kids accidentally tipped over my B&W P6s once. Luckily, by chance, there was something standing next to them that prevented the fall. So yes, accidents do happen!The OHMs with the sloping veneer are pretty stable and ru... | |
| Why not horns? Anybody know offhand if/how Klipschorns deal with time alignment? |