shadorne
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| Metal cabinet speakers Genelec still does aluminium speakers. ATC did aluminium speakers for many years. Aluminium works well but I believe it is more expensive than mdf and 3 to 4 times heavier. Impractical for anything bigger than a two way monitor due to weight. Adva... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? Directionality is a really complex thing. Definitely useful. I can walk around in the total dark and sense walls (not very accurately but I can manage at a snails pace) - small obstacles are beyond my hearing acuity.Below 2000 Hz we use the time a... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? “What’s the difference?”The difference is that a setup where the room has a significant effect on the sound will always have some room influence - and this will always have some impact.A good setup will present the recording space as presented on ... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? Both. Since my listening room is as small as a small venue I can enjoy both.A listening room that is too small (like a bedroom) tends to leave too much of its own sonic signature. Same with a very large room like a gymnasium. In between is ideal -... | |
| Mcintosh C2500 DAC section I have C2600 - the DAC is probably similar to the 2500 and it’s pretty good. A dedicated DAC will only get you 5% to 10% more depending on how picky you are. I prefer to use a PS Directstream which is more mellow but still resolving or a Benchmark... | |
| Your reference system? @slaw My ears are equally delighted by what experienced money no object experts go for. If I was to enter F1 as a rookie race car driver, I would accept the decisions of the experts on the Mercedes team too! Nobody has a monopoly on good hearing b... | |
| Your reference system? What was selected by Dave Gilmour, Diana Krall, Tom Petty, Doug Sax, Sting, Roger Waters, Gordon Holt, Telarc, Mark Knopfler, Ian Anderson, Enya, Beck, The Rolling Stones, Jack White, Kate Bush, Joe Satriani, The Killers, Coldplay, Twenty One Pilo... | |
| Why No McIntosh Recommendations? MC2600 owner here. Their tube gear is excellent. Not the last word in resolution but if you are seeking some tube warmth while preserving bass slam then a McIntosh tube preamp is hard to beat sonically. Goldilocks coloration when rolled with the r... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! Both Gordon Holt and Doug Sax (both mentioned above) eventually discovered active ATC. ATC are the speakers they used daily until they passed away. The tone of the Spendor S 3/5S is mainly the polypropylene cone - the plastic is quite flexible and... | |
| Hearing phase distortion Erik,It may be comb filtering indeed that makes it audible. A frequency response anomaly rather than actually hearing wavefronts or phase seems more believable as to being audible.@millercarbonSome do hear it but most people don’t seem to be bothe... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? I found George Stone Killer exercises with accents worked best for me. It forced my left to be the equal of the right. Accents helped me keep the hands relaxed and use the weight of the stick and rebound. Repetition creates muscle memory. Use a so... | |
| Opinions and recommendations on active loudspeakers @gosta Crime of Century was probably at its best on original vinyl. There are many digital versions and some are quite compressed. I like MFSL CD version personally. Many of the remasters get goosed to sound impressive and lose the balance that m... | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? Music is about action - like sport and cars. Men are obsessive about improving what they have, can do and showing off. It is all fundamentally related to habits that are formed to ensure successful reproduction - the Peacock display. A woman will ... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Horns tend to have an uneven radiation pattern with frequency. They also have a comb like response especially at higher frequencies. This can be perceived as shouty or unbalanced. It changes the tonality due to the variable off axis response. | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @bdp24 Gretsch family has been involved in making instruments for 6 generations. I met one of the Gretsch Family’s latest generation recently - great guy - and he plays drums! |