richardbrand
Responses from richardbrand
| Best Holographic Speakers ~$7k per pair @pinwa Panel speakers also have relatively narrow sweet spots Well, that may be broadly true, but certainly does not apply to Quad's electrostatic panel speakers from the Quad ESL-63 and all subsequent models. The reason is simple, but the e... | |
| Vinyl Care @faustuss As far as the diamond creating "static" as you people like to call it, last I heard diamonds are made of carbon which is the most conductive material known to man. You must still be a few years short of getting a degree in materials... | |
| Throwing 2 High End brands together will not automatically equal success. Thoughts? Surely it is unrealistic to think that any one manufacturer can be good at everything? One that did come close is Quad, who started making valve and solid state amplifiers after WW2, then added world-class electrostatic loudspeakers (still heavil... | |
| Best Holographic Speakers ~$7k per pair I would move upscale with KEF and try the stunning Reference 1 speakers (not sure how much they cost where you live!). There are scientific reasons why speakers that try to emulate a point source of sound have the 'holographic' qualities you are... | |
| Vinyl Care I was in a similar situation, having hardly played records after CDs came out. Thanks to this forum, I discovered the bible on how to clean records. It is PACVR-3rd-Edition - Precision Aqueous Cleaning of: Vinyl Records. Like the bible, at 192 ... | |
| Soft-dome tweeter damage - NBD or permanently compromised? Reading the original post carefully, I see that these were used speakers bought from a 'seller', not from the manufacturer. It would be interesting to know if there is photographic evidence of the state of the soft domes before shipping! I would... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback Agree on the role of 'platter mat'! How about the record 'puck'? Dust cover? What about splitting some components into small sub-systems? Some cartridges can take several stylus profiles which can make a big difference. Then there is the plin... | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? @lordmelton You're a total knob jockey, go back to ASR Thank you for your thoughtful contribution. Maybe you could muster a specific technical issue to debate? But normally, folk that can only attack the person are unable to rise to that le... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… @milimetr what speaker cable brand and model would you recommend for such comparison? I would be looking for a cable with the same or more cross-section, same length or shorter, but with more separation between the conductors. Trying to keep... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… @milimetr I think the cables you are listening to have high capacitance and high inductance compared with more physically open, more neutral cables on the market. Bear in mind that your speakers (all speakers) have impedances which vary with fr... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… @faustuss The result of twisting or braiding and shielding insulated conductors reduces inductance and increases capacitance Really? Take a straight wire. It has self-inductance caused by the magnetic flux created as current flows. Now twi... | |
| Chinese DAC's @panzrwagn Spot on. That is why most of the non-US world uses the value added during its contribution to the production of an item as the basis for revenue collection. In Europe it is called a Value-Added Tax (VAT) and in Australia it is a fla... | |
| How hot is too hot? @paradisecom Think of the Class-A offerings from something like Krell My ’little’ class A 80-Watt per channel Krell KSA-80 has to convect / radiate close to 700-Watts of power into the room whenever it is running. It is too hot for the cat to... | |
| Speaker set up for more than 1 person @yyzsantabarbara I think coincident drivers tend to have a slightly bigger sweet spot, with the Blade being very special in this regard Completely agree with you except that I would change slightly to hugely! For decades I used Quad Electros... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @faustuss Now that you have educated yourself, you may be able to appreciate that when we say that a transport delivers Direct Stream Digital (DSD) natively over High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), we really mean it! DSD To be absolute... |