onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Tone -- What's It All About? Thanks for the responses. The way I've heard the word used is along the lines of Gunbei's description. It's a tube thing. | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise Macrojack, my explanation applies to both sealed and non-sealed speakers. A port, if appropriately designed, offers a controlled path for pressure to escape the speaker cabinet. Ported speakers still have to address cabinet flex. If I got it right... | |
| Zu on Zu One of the differences is that I am not predisposed towards particular design concepts, whereas, I believe you are. You're enamored with what Zu represents, namely zero crossover, phase coherence, etc. Nothings wrong with that, but it is a predisp... | |
| Zu on Zu The reason it takes some people an extended period of time to adapt to Zu speakers on first listen is the necessity to unlearn much of what you have been conditioned to accept.That's absolute nonsense. If you know what real instruments sound like ... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise Bartokfan, the front wave from your speaker drivers puts acoustic energy into the room and the rear wave puts an equal amount of energy into the speaker cabinet. Your room is measured in hundreds of cubic feet, but the speaker cabinet is typically... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise Zaikesman, I agree that it is more complicated than my earlier post presented, but I don't think I'm incorrect in stating that adding mass is the easiest and cheapest way to deal with cabinet vibration. It's not a perfect solution, but it does wor... | |
| Bloated speakers/weight wise By itself a speaker's weight means little, but in the context of an overall design it can quite useful. The problem involves lowering the sonic contribution of the speaker cabinet, which at some frequencies can amount to 40% of the overall sound e... | |
| Zu on Zu Why is the Zu driver referred to as a full range driver (FRD)? While it's an impressive piece of engineering, It doesn't cover what is traditionally considered the full audio range, namely 20-20k Hz.As I interpreted the thread the negativity expre... | |
| Billy Preston Dies There's a marvelous film clip of Preston as a child appearing on the Nat King Cole TV show. He couldn't have been more than 12 yet he commanded the screen with Cole standing at his side. | |
| David Sanborn's "Night Music" The absolute best music show ever! As far as I know, never released on video. The Cohen/Rollins segment was amazing. I also remember John Hiatt playing with Robert Cray and being mesmerized.I'm not entirely positive, but it may have been John Zorn... | |
| Loudness of TV Commercials You can skip commercials with Tivo-like devices. Also commercials come in fixed time lengths, it's very easy to manually scan past them. Since the overwhelming majority of TVs and home theater systems are remote controlled, the changing volume jus... | |
| K&K any comments? 213cobra, excellent comments which point to how important listener preferences are in high end audio. Among the better products it really is hard to say that one is clearly better than another. It's usually a case of the listener's preferences mor... | |
| Intergrated Amp with VR4jrs The Jeff Rowland Concentra (original version) can be had for less than $2,500. It's better than the Krell of MF you mention. A Krell 300 goes for slightly over $1,000 and some people have commented that its betters the 400 series in long term list... | |
| TAD-803 2 way speaker review Why can't a two way speaker throw a huge soundstage? You've piqued my interest. You must know something the speaker designers at Wilson, ProAc, Spica, Monitor Audio, Epos, Totem, Harbeth, etc. don't know. Explain. | |
| contradictory communication Warmth is a product of the lower midrange to upper midrange/lower treble balance. If the latter is elevated compared to the former the sound will lack warmth. It's more likely for audiophile targeted products to suffer from this lack of warmth whi... |