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| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? My experience supports the No Antiskating option. Each arm where I have tried removing the AS has sounded better than with any amount of AS. These arms include Triplanar VII, Analog Instruments Siggwan, and Moerch DP-6. I also used a VPI JMW-10... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Do you have contact info for this cabinet builder in TN? | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Larry,Yes, there is something about the old school paper cone woofers. The Jensens may not go as deep as modern woofers or have the same impact, at least in my bass reflex cabinets, but they somehow are able to blend seamlessly with the 32 horn a... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Whart, I use an Altec 802-8G compression driver on the 32A horn. Woofer is a Jensen P15LL which is a 15" with paper cone. Both drivers have Alnico magnets. The drivers and horn date from the 1970s, I believe, but are still available on Ebay at ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? The diversity of opinions in this thread demonstrates once again the diversity of viewpoints in audio, which is a good thing in my opinion. We approach the listening experience with different attitudes, priorities, life experiences, etc. which gi... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Well, that was an interesting follow-up to the problems in the Brinkman/Tidal room. It certainly sounded like the channels were out of phase. I am pleased the room sponsors were able to fix the problem before the end of the show. | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 The story about the Brinkman demo is absolutely right. When I entered the room, there was an empty seat in the front row on the center line of the speakers. As I started to sit down, it was immediately evident that the sound was out-of-phase. T... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Johnk gave a good description of the sonic advantages of good vintage speakers, one borne out in my experience as well. I would just emphasize the realistic dynamic swings that a good vintage speaker can provide, both low-level, subtle shifts in ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? As usual LarryI has a balanced and measured post which means I agree with him. There is no question that modern speaker design software and measurement tools have contributed to an overall improvement in speaker sound quality. For those of us wh... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Larry,Thanks for clarifying the open baffle design. The second time I visited the room Aldo was demonstrating the system to Art Dudley and he had removed one of the speaker grilles. That's how I saw the drivers on the front panel. It has a horn... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Larry,I am a little confused by your description of the Deja Vu speaker as "open baffle." The cabinets I saw appeared to be completely sealed front and back. Did Vu switch speakers during the show perhaps? The ones I heard on Friday and Saturda... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 There were many very nice sounding rooms at this year's CAF. That makes 2 for 2 at the new venue, and considering that the sound quality for the several years previous was not as so uniformly good I have to conclude that the new quarters must hav... | |
| How long do high quality speakers "last" 7 years is just barely broken in! Seriously, unless your drivers have foam surrounds, speakers should last a long, long time. My Spendors have 15 years and should continue for many more. The vintage drivers in my high-efficiency speakers date f... | |
| Ideas on table/arm combo for Miyajima mono cart I agree with Darkmatters about the Schick. I owned one for a few years and tried it with a number of cartridges and headshells. Despite all the hoopla the Schick just doesn't sound all that good. I replaced mine with an Analog Instruments Siggw... | |
| Audio Note Phono stages A couple points. First, Audio Note Kits are not the same as Audio Note (UK). Despite some obvious similarities in both circuit design and parts quality, the final voicing of ANK kits is unique to ANK. Second, ANK recently revised the L3 phono k... |