shadorne
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| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Agreed. Transducer design has not changed for decades. Mostly tweaks. Some older designs are extremely good even against the best available today. From my perspective, the biggest step change was when transistor based power amplifiers allowed grea... | |
| Help Picking a turntable I answer because I recently got a modest vinyl setup.My recommendation is to go with a late 70’s higher end Japanese mass produced DD turntable like Pioneer PL-550 (manual with heavy plinth and platter) or similar (Technics, Denin and others were ... | |
| Why do all audio forums on the internet seem "dead" ? I think the forums are useless - that is why.They are inhabited by those trumping their own latest high priced expenditures (to justify things in their own mind more than anything else). They are further fuelled into aimless merry-go-round equipme... | |
| Why do all audio forums on the internet seem "dead" ? The pro market is doing great!There are three reasons for the demise of audiophile 1. Snake oil2. Snake oil3. Snake oilThere are a few other reasons being that the quality in general of audio products peaked in the late 80's. Audiophiles went ever... | |
| Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out? In the first few hours of use this might be ok - voicecoil adhesives are getting "baked"But later in life - you are burning up the ferrofluid and possibly damaged the kapton paper over the coil wires and may have caused arcing (that strong smell)T... | |
| Closed back headphone recommendation Correction I meant Sennheiser HD25 pro not Shure in the 2nd paragraph. | |
| Closed back headphone recommendation The Shure SE846 are the most impressive in ears that I have heard - the bass is realistic to the point you "feel" the kick drum (if you have good speakers or go to live music then you will know what I mean - a sort of compression of air at below a... | |
| Best speakers for Pink Floyd? If a drummer wants to sound like John Bonham in the "best" way then they buy Ludwig and preferably a vintage set from the same era and in the exact same sizes and model that Bonham used and use similar heads and tune them up the way Bonham did.The... | |
| Best speakers for Pink Floyd? Yes vicwest and all the re-releases and recent DVD's were done on ATC - some on David Gilmour's setup and some on James Guthrie's setup. Understandably everyone has a personal preference when it comes to speakers but given the rather specific que... | |
| Best speakers for Pink Floyd? As several have mentioned, Pink Floyd use ATC Speakers for studio monitoring (Listening and refining their work before it gets released to market). If you have some special appreciation for the care with which Pink Floyd have produced their albums... | |
| Speakers that are very accurate sounding but don't produce an emotional connection. For sure more color is attention grabbing just like a speaker with boosted bass and treble can seem wonderful in a short audition and particularly with certain tracks like Daft Punk. Over the years though, an accurate response will better portray ... | |
| Speakers that are very accurate sounding but don't produce an emotional connection. For those of you replacing equipment or spending your $ chasing more "palpable" sounds of particular instruments on particular recordings - you won't ever stand a chance of achieving overall improvement on each and every recording. The only way to... | |
| Speakers that are very accurate sounding but don't produce an emotional connection. Oxymoron. "Very accurate" is going to convey the music as intended and deliver the full emotional impact. Anything else is just a goofy coloured lens that makes everything sound similarly sweet or harsh or boomy or whatever colourful and eventuall... | |
| Speakers that will bring me down to me knees crying with joy Try old school speakers pulp paper and fabric drivers. You seem too focused on technologically advanced speakers that perform well on paper using rigid drivers. rigid drivers have great performance on frequency response bandwidth (technical) but t... | |
| Tannoy vs. ATC Consider the active ATC SCM40A? The bass with ATC is much more accurate and it sounds like you already know what the ATC mid range can do and it solves your amplification headache in one go. Kids grow up but your speaker will be with you for years. |