russ69
Responses from russ69
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers Making broad generalities in audio usually leads to eating large amounts of crow. There are good and bad versions of just about every loudspeaker design. (is that a generality?) | |
| W4S ST-1000, How Loud Should It Play? I'm thinking you are not able to drive them to full power. It's a common problem with ICE amps. Call W4S and see what they say. | |
| Too Many Tubes? Only if your music has too many notes! | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? A reviewer simply needs an opinion and an audience to express it to. A good reviewer needs some of the skills already listed. | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... I understand fully what MrTennis is saying but in audio the only tool we have is our hearing. It's not a perfect situation and two people can disagree about what they are hearing. That's basically why long term evaluation is relevant to our hobby ... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti The best product to use is one that does not resonate where you don't want it to and does resonate where it will be the least problem. You'll have to build and measure the cabinet resonant frequencies to determine that. It's basic engineering but ... | |
| Velodyne SMS-1 Tuning, Can you use Different subs? True, if you want stereo subs you'll need 2 SMS units. The SMS is a mono system with more than one output. | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... "hi russ69: my point is that one should not trust the senses."I use my ears, to listen to my HI-FI. I can listen to a pair of amps and tell you which one I like better. It may not be better by measured criteria but I can decide if it sounds better... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... MrTennis, I've never read anything in a spec sheet that gave me the slightest clue on how an amp sounds. I'm not sure we are even measuring the right parameters. No, Jedinite24, just can't understand why somebody would make that statement unless t... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... If all amps sound the same, then we should recommend that everybody buy a 500 watt a channel job as their first and only amp they will ever need. How come the guys that think all amps sound the same never own/owned a big/expensive amp? | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... Some of you guys guessed it right. Here's the latest quote:"You've been sold a bill of goods my friend. There's a lot snake oil in "high-end" audio and anybody that tells you that a two channel amp sounds better than a multichannel amp or a receiv... | |
| Are the CD'S days numbered? When I was a kid I would see crazy old men buying 78s. They didn't know they were obsolete. I guess I'll be the crazy old man buying CDs... | |
| Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker? You guys are missing some key points. All speaker designers want to have high efficiency but you can't always get it without compromising something else, like frequency response or a changing impedance. As in most engineering, you have to make cho... | |
| Number of yrs. to reach the finished line? As others have said, there is no finish line. I don't know about you guys but once I get a system working well, I'm ready to change something. Panels to horns, horns to dynamic, planers to electrostatics... It's a journey, not a destination. | |
| Best Recording of Solo Tambourine Sorry you won't be reading this but I'll include it for future reference. The Monkees always had a good tambourine. That little Davy Jones is good tam player. |