shadorne
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| Laid Back Speakers amps, players etc Laid back generally means a warm resonant bass (typical of small ported designs with underdamped response and big "hump" in the bass) often combined with a "scooped" midrange (scooped midrange means the power response, which is combined on axis an... | |
| why do companies charge double for xlr cables? XLR connectors are probably twice as expensive. The wire has an extra conductor and is shielded. It doesn't need to be fully balanced to improve contacts and reduce noise from EM/RF. | |
| MIT multipole technology Sorry I can't help - this is not using any accepted science I know of. | |
| Harbeth 7es-3 Sound Finally got to hear these speakers yesterday.What I heard was excellent driver integration - you don't have the sensation of where/when the tweeter takes over (which is such a common problem in two way speakers). A warm wooden or boxy resonant sou... | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. Also if there are any jazz groups where the drummer uses sticks rather than brushes, would be a big bonus. Your missing classic stuff like Harry James, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dirty Dozen Brass Band (funeral stuff). Your missing pushing the ... | |
| speakers for classical music I don't think the peaks are lasting long enough to lead to significant compression when listening to actual music in my system. What a speaker can do with a sine wave for several seconds is not of great interest to me, if it doesn't correlate wit... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue Oh and for those who like detail. Here is some sobering reading that explains how your DAC is very likely clipping due to illegally loud redbook on most recent CD's.And CD sales are declining...and the industry wonders why?Well they get what they ... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue To try and tie things to together.We are all talking about the same thing as being fatiguing.Higher order harmonics from intermodulation be it TIM or other forms of distortion.This happens with a bad amp design. It also happens when an amp is over... | |
| speakers for classical music Dave,Sure most dynamic speakers can probably achieve 105 db SPL peaks at 7 feet that with 1000 watts behind them. The issue is how clean and uncompressed are those peaks. This was my point about giving a link to what many audiophiles regard as a r... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue For me, recordings that are highly compressed are very fatiguing, regardless of the fact that I may love the music. Unfortunately I can hardly tolerate listening to these recording on any combination of my home audio rigs. They sound fine in my c... | |
| speakers for classical music So combine performance levels around 110dB with speakers that easily reach 105 to 110dB and there's no 20dB of lost dynamic range. I don't think I am exaggerating. I don't think you will find many dynamic speakers that easily do what you say (may... | |
| Avalon Eidolon Diamond-Worth it? Kurt,Sir Speedy's advice is good. Sealed boxes are usually better in bass transient response ( less bass but generally tighter and more accurate ).If all you are missing is that last bit of bass response then why not get a sealed sub like a JL F11... | |
| Second harmonics distortion? Chris,It may be the recording - studios will add euphonics to voices to give them a richer or fuller sound. It is impossible to say. This is one of the reasons there is so much confusion or misinformation in audio. Naturally everyone tries to draw... | |
| speakers for classical music Once rid of artificial loudness cues, the normal urge is to turn up the volume. Absolutely! Distortion is what makes 99% of systems sound extremely loud when they are not. Either distortion from the system itself or distortion on the recording it... | |
| Harbeth SHL5 compared to Merlin VSM ? Rgs92,In passive, I'd suggest SCM19 or SCM20 used (try to get the SL version). The bigger models are better active - so I wouldn't go passive with any of them. |