phusis
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| Advantages of beryllium? @shadorne -- Highly rigid and light but poor internal damping. Personally I don’t like the splashy sound of drivers of this type design (metal and highly rigid). They have great bandwidth that makes for impressive measured performance but I find t... | |
| Subwoofer failings and their use-related reasons @erik_squires --Oh, we can agree on how size matters here, but as we both know even those who’ve equipped their listening space with dual 15"+ subs may be inclined to use them... how shall we say - frivolous! My main focus with this thread is not ... | |
| Power Cable DIY - Please advise I'm awaiting my IeGo 8055 pure copper (non-plated) IEC and Schuko plugs early next week, and am excited to see whether they'll sonically improve over a my Home Depot-style plugs (with brass connectors). The IeGo plugs are to be used with Viablue's... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Speaker evolution these last rather many decades roughly seems to have been more about refining a concept born by Edgar M. Villchur when he brought forth the AR-1's in the 50's. Few would or should really contest the perhaps most notable feature h... | |
| Is it the beer or do speakers/electronics really need some extended warm-up period? ... I'm a cable proponent, but that's different in that when I swap a cable I'm hearing the change immediately. @douglas_schroeder --How's that different to people perceiving sonic changes with either new/old or cold/warm gear? You could, say, ... | |
| Has anyone ever heard these speakers by Volti Audio? @david_ten -- I’m new to horn speakers and your post is truly educational for me. Thank You! A trip to Brighton and a meeting with Mr. Mears would be a really nice add on to a future planned Vincent Brient and ~ Mont Saint-Michel meeting. And than... | |
| Has anyone ever heard these speakers by Volti Audio? @gawdbless -- There are plenty of Interesting points here regarding the mid range preferred by Uccello and Vittora going different ways.The devil's in the detail ;)I would love to and will one day trot off to the UK give the Uccello a listen. The ... | |
| Has anyone ever heard these speakers by Volti Audio? That is interesting! The first big upgrade I did was replace the B&C 2" horn driver with the BMS 4592. Greg Roberts used the B&C ×××50 at the beginning but changed later.The B&C was good but colored. The BMS was a huge improvement in o... | |
| Has anyone ever heard these speakers by Volti Audio? @gawdbless I would love to hear the Simon Mears Uccello speaker (10,500 UK Sterling) which similar(ish) to the Vittoria. I imagine they sound in a ballpark not all too different. Still, they use different drivers, cross-overs and horns, and lik... | |
| Klipsch love them or hate them. From my own experience what the Klipschorn Loudspeaker needs is a bigger mid range cone and larger flare say a 3" cone?. That would alleviate the mid range shrill/harshness (for want of better words) and allow the mid octaves to sound unstrained a... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? In continuation of my respons above a more general observation, one that may "only" be an aspect of realism in sonic reproduction (albeit a very important one), namely the frequency spectrum from some 100-400Hz - or the upper bass/lower midrange. ... | |
| Shotgun with different cables blindjim --A big thank you for your elaborate response. There’s a lot to process here, some of which I’ll ponder later. douglas_schroeder --I call what you are doing running speaker cables parallel. Probably the easiest way calling it that, but o... | |
| Shotgun with different cables Why drawbacks? It can be beneficial to use different wires.kijanki --As per above, exactly my experience as well. Hence my promoting this route. It is done in internal biwire cables. Also, my Acoustic Zen Satori shotgun cables have markings "Hi" a... | |
| Shotgun with different cables Thank you, Al. In light of your technical findings I’m even more confounded why we’re not hearing more about experimentation into this configuration, insofar at least one would assume a theory-laden approach being dominant. I imagine a variety of ... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? ... Now, there is SVS, Rhythmic, PSA etc which have much better specs than the Rels for less $$$. But the question for me is whether they actually integrate with the main speakers as well as the Rel? I use mine for music 95% of the time. Music doe... |