shadorne
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| How can Wilson Audio speakers sound that good if they are using OEM drivers? Nearly all speakers are made with OEM parts. Many things are made this way. A lot of the technological sales talk is bogus. For example, all the interest in exotic materials for driver cones is often without mention of the size of voice coil, size... | |
| Talk but not walk? Shear waves are just transverse vibrational waves. In solids you get both P (longitudinal) and S (transverse) waves. In liquids and air you get only P waves.At interfaces you can get rolling or orbital progressive waves travelling along the interf... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer LP +1 Indeed a classic.I don’t have a vinyl version of that but what a great sounding album in any case. This is one of the few where the musicianship is as good or better than the sound. My other favourite is Dave Grusin Homage to Duke. Sadly many o... | |
| Muddy Waters Folk Singer LP +1 Indeed a classic.I don’t have a vinyl version of that but what a great sounding album in any case. This is one of the few where the musicianship is as good or better than the sound. My other favourite is Dave Grusin Homage to Duke. Sadly many o... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 DlcockrumI think that one has the be careful about a DAC like the T&A DSD 8 when most of the sound is from what looks like poorly implemented filters. I think the fixation on DACs and their sound is a mistake. Get a good high quality tube p... | |
| Talk but not walk? @geoffkait Wrong. You are conflating flow and vibration. The air particles in the room vibrate elastically at musical frequencies they do NOT “flow” around the room. There is no net air movement Flow = Zero, Capiche? | |
| Talk but not walk? Since there is no air flow in a listening room you can’t create turbulent flow. You don’t even have laminar flow in a listening room. Reynolds numbers? Good grief. We have such a conflation of different applied sciences here - none of which applie... | |
| Tea For the Tillerman by Cat Stevens-which sounds best? This might help.http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Cat+Stevens&album=Tea I prefer the HD Tracks version to the CD and to Tidal MQA. Frankly not much in it - all the digital versions are close. I don’t have vinyl so can’t comment there. | |
| Talk but not walk? Geoff is spewing even more jumbo-jumbo gobbledygook than usual. He has outdone himself. Definitely worthy of a Gold Star, a Mars bar and extra playtime. | |
| 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... |