shadorne
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| 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... | |
| Talk but not walk? @bdp24 +1 Drum set are tuned in a different way to every other instrument. It is extremely complex. Being able to get the right sound for the room or venue is an art.The only way to learn to “tune” a drum set is to tune a drum set so many times th... | |
| Talk but not walk? Yup. Some Girls just confirms my experience with HD tracks is they are more money for POS recordings. Really annoying to pay more for less quality. I will never buy from them again as there is no quality control - just high prices. | |
| Recommendation for a modern Duntech Sovereign 2001 replacement @m-db Good point. The Duntech are quite a load (7 transducers) and as such can be dynamically constrained by the power amp. | |
| Speaker recomendation I would prefer to learn more about the OP requirements than all this distraction. Speakers really depend on the requirements and tastes of the OP. I think the OP has left. | |
| Recommendation for a modern Duntech Sovereign 2001 replacement “Must have superb midrange” and you are thinking to go SS and you seem to like soft dome and jazz and classic speakers - you definitely owe it to yourself to audition ATC actives - the versions with 3” super dome (50 and up). |