shadorne
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| Talk but not walk? Wow. Audio is an elastic compressional - rarefaction acoustic wave. Audio has nothing to do with flow. Nothing flows from speaker to listener. You only get a tiny bit of air flow directly around the transducers edges and the reflex port.A display ... | |
| Talk but not walk? +1 ElizabethAnd the answer to Geoff’s quiz isIt depends. If the fridge that supplied the ice cold water has an ordinary stock fuse then there is no improvement. If the fridge used to supply the ice cold water has an SR Blue aftermarket fuse then t... | |
| Mellow speakers for a digital piano I use Genelec 8020 active monitors with my Nord Electro 5 and Korg Stage V1 tube keyboard. I also have a Traynor K4 keyboard amp with tubes. http://traynoramps.com/keyboard/product/k4/ I’d say you need tubes if you want a sweeter sounding piano. T... | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers @exfoliate Diamond tweeters like the one in B&W measure equally well compared to the Excel Millenium soft dome. So world class. Extremely delicate.Don’t know much about the diamond midrange. Diamond is usually half a human hair in thickness.... | |
| Best balanced linestage/preamp for $4000 or less ??? Best is subjective but Conrad Johnson is a good place to start. Great value. The highly respected classics from BAT, ARC, VPI, Mcintosh and EAR (and several others brands) come with a commensurately high premium price tag....probably out of your p... | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers Harman’s CMMD look very good on paper. The fact folks are still working on this problem shows you how pesky it is!ATC solution to breakup (bending) of softer materials was to use a dome shape supported by a large 3 inch voice coil. They also had t... | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers I think the original Accuton were pure ceramic but they used dampening rubber dots to tame the materials tendency resonance. In recent years the dots have disappeared so perhaps damping is on the inside of the cone where you can’t see it?Accuton a... | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers @exfoliate The big advantage of harder materials is they don’t suffer from cone breakup and therefore have a broader operating frequency response. This translates to tweeters that go up an extra third of an octave or so.Ideal mid range is about 3 ... | |
| Best balanced linestage/preamp for $4000 or less ??? Good good plan. Tube pre and SS power. You can go as sweet as you like. | |
| Hard Audio - Ceramic Speakers Hard rigid solid drivers may be pistonic but they also vibrate internally. This is a FACT.They sound terrible to anyone with a discerning sense of timbre. They simply aren’t musical at all even if the articulation can be impressive.Those who just ... | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? @craigl59 Good article. MQA is a lossy format which injects a ton of up imaging noise into the high frequencies. If it sounds better then1) The master audio file used to create the MQA file is better than the other master you are comparing to2) Yo... | |
| RECORDS THAT HAVE IMPRESSED PEOPLE SO MUCH THEY BOUGHT MY STEREO You would like Rastus - a very rare vinyl issue of what was an amazingly energetic and cooking TOP style band that never made it...Check out Black Cat https://youtu.be/9hFlyLNI1HkAlso David Garfield Giving Back.Try also Nils Lofgren live acoustic ... | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? Interesting. The MQA version of Fairytales doesn’t sound right to my ears. I don’t have the vinyl to compare. Her vocals sound like she is singing slightly diminished intervals. Very fragile slightly dissonant harmonically thin voice. Piano sounds... | |
| What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0( I think expert audiophiles are getting so much amazing sound quality from TC paste, aftermarket SR fuses, and Tekton speakers that all HEA components and speakers are totally obsolete... | |
| Huey Lewis diagnosed with Meniere's disease @moto_man Sustained overly loud music can cause hearing damage in anyone.Meniere’s disease is unrelated to that. Unfortunately like your eyesight - hearing eventually deteriorates over time too - so some of what may be blamed on loud music or expo... |