shadorne
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| Tone controls- to use or not? Most of high end preamps don't even have tone controls and all amps sold in Best Buy do. This alone should suggest something. That audio purists are masochists and would rather buy several amps until they get what works in their room rather than ... | |
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| To bi-wire or not to bi-wire? Musicnoise - with normal hearing, one can hear intensities from 0 dB to 140 dB Agreed. And how most home systems can be called "Hi-fidelity" when they are limited to maximum SPL of 95 db SPL at the listening position (before compression distortio... | |
| To bi-wire or not to bi-wire? This would correspond to steepness of the sound wavefront. A 14KHz tone that is not a sine wave can have a wavefront steepness corresponding to a 20 KHz sine wave. I haven't tried it lately, but supertweeters with response to 40 KHz and higher ar... | |
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| Which speakers have wide dispersion? Pedrillo - wide dispersion is possible in a conventional speaker and it is also possible in an omni directional speaker (Beolab 5, Ohms, MBL) However, contrary to popular belief - a large panel tends to have a narrow dispersion and suffer from lob... | |
| Gallos ohms mirages or deuvels Gallos will be really difficult to suspend with bungee cord - not recommended! The ore boxy ohms are a better choice. | |
| Which speakers have wide dispersion? Speakers that follow this principle are many. Audiokinesis, Energy, Mirage, PSB, Merlin, Axiom, just to name a very few...it is the main reason that dome tweeters are so successful. It is one of the major challenges in a midrange - especially in a... | |
| Which speakers have wide dispersion? It sounds more natural - direct and reverbernat energy match. Sound is good in a much larger sweetspot. Sound is easy to listen too and relaxing as opposed to the headphone feeling you get with narrow dispersion speakers. You can enjoy the sound w... | |
| Is break in quicker with Planars and Stats? Perhaps it depends on the design. An Electrostatic with high step up transformers + high voltage capacitors is more likely to change over time than a sealed box speaker with a compliant woofer. In the case of a sealed box speaker single woofer the... | |
| To bi-wire or not to bi-wire? Biwiring is explained scientifically on the Vandersteen website A theory is proposed...low frequency high power signals induce noise on high frequency low power signals. It is hardly science though.Given the low impedances of speaker loads and am... | |
| Dunlavy SC IVA X-over resistor values Vishay metal film Impressive crossover WOW. Of course these type resistors would be the top choice in amplifiers and low level signal circuitry. However, non-inductive ceramic wirewound resistors are just as good and you don't need to bridge them... | |
| Revel Salon2 vs. B & W 802D vs. Wilson W.P.7? I believe they tried to correct the ringing on the WP 8 - something to do with damping the back wave. However what is disconcerting is that the tweeter clearly shows significant audio compression at a mere 95 db SPL (this is a difference plot of r... | |
| MBL alternatives I run the Classic Audio Reproductions T-3. It is set up with dual 15" woofers, has 20Hz-45KHz bandwidth, nice flat impedance curve, 97 db 1 watt/1 meter and matches the transparency and detail of the best ESLs with its field-coil drivers. Nuance,... | |
| Dunlavy SC IVA X-over resistor values Here is some recent research as why you might worry about capacitors rather than resistors (especially large caps and ones that carry higher voltages - so this affects passive speaker crossovers as well as tube coupling caps most) See this Clarity... |