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| Best lines in a song Hans plays with lotte, lotte plays with janeJane plays with willi, willi is happy againSuki plays with leo, sacha plays with brittAdolf builds a bonfire, enrico plays with it-whistling tunes we hid in the dunes by the seaside-whistling tunes were... | |
| 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... | |
| Loud and Live Billy Squiers - Stroke Me - there is a live version!Cum On feel the Noise - Quiet RiotTrain kept Rollin' (all night long) - Aerosmith (great cover of this)Police - Next to youBoston - Foreplay/Long time Queen - Live at Wembley - this is an amazing... | |
| 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... | |
| MBL alternatives Soundlabs.Love them but don't have the room (size) for them... OK - then try to audition ATC SCM50ASL - Gordon Holt had sound labs for ages (and loved them too) - apparently ATC are his current favorites - as you know he has probably heard more s... |