shadorne
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| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? IMHO, hi-fi has become so good and cheap since 50's that there is almost no such thing as low or mid fi around anymore (at least not in your average middle class home). Digital has been the great democratizer - simplifying things with high quality... | |
| speakers for classical music If the speaker can stand up to those sources without stressing, without distorting, without sounding stuffy or wooly, and deliver the full dynamics, transients and bandwidth, it'll be a very special speaker. The best ones I've heard for this have... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic "You can listen at 100db and not even know you are listening so loud. No distortion etc. And everything remains stable in space with a transparency that is hard to believe." ATC, PMC will do it and so will some horns and several other high end de... | |
| speakers for classical music I am now totally off B&W speakers, because I kept destroying them! I had the 803D. David,If you like to drive speakers loud and particuarly realistic dynamics/spl then this is generally what happens. Go horns or pro speakers would be my sugge... | |
| best 4.5" midrange drivers under $1K Cdc,SPL level is 20 * Log (Absolute THD) - therefore ATC would appear at 60 db SPL down if it were on the same kind of SPL plot. For 0.1% THD you get = 20 * Log (0.001) = 60 db SPL. This may cause all the confusion in the comparison. There is very... | |
| best 4.5" midrange drivers under $1K Audioism,In simple terms the ATC unit was tested at 6 db higher SPL and yet the THD is about 10 db SPL lower - and it can probably play even much louder cleanly. Furthermore, if you look more carefully you will see that 3rd order harmonic distorti... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Why the talk of stadiums and pro sound? Who cares? Sorry if I confused everyone. I was just trying to explain that long throw horns with narrow dispersion tend to be used to direct coverage over a small narrow area and work extremely well in stad... | |
| best 4.5" midrange drivers under $1K Cdc,It all depends at what level the test is conducted and even the units are different. Shinobiwan's test was equivalent to 96 db spl at 1 meter without an infinite baffle (so the low end distortion rises as you go below 600 Hz as the driver lose... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic If you look at the modern Klipsch and JBL designs you will see that they tend to respect this by using short throw horns with wider dispersion And I would add - that they sound great! | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Dgad,Excessively high compression ratio :You get non-linearities in air compression in the compression chamber at extreme compression (high efficiencies). It creates harmonic distortion. I would not think you need to worry about this with hi-fi de... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Paul dynamics can not equal the dynamic range of a front horn no mater how much power you feed them. It just isnt going to happen Completely agree. In fact for sound reinforcement and for stadiums really horns are the only way to go. The narrower... | |
| most effective bass traps As an aside, I enjoy your well thought out responses to many questions on this forum. Am I correct to assume that using corner traps, such as ASC tube traps, is virtually always likely to improve bass response? Bflowers,Yes, for sure! Sorry I mis... | |
| Gain of Power Amp vs Playing at low volume It depends on matching with the preamp. I have always used poweramps with channel gain adjust controls - so you can set the gain optimaly.Perhaps you are reading about people using a poweramp without preamp => using the source as pre-amp and th... | |
| What Solid State PreAmp? From Chord to EMMLabs Switchman - what functionality do you want/need - to me the functionality is an important thing in a pre - not just the "specs" (which often exceed the recording quality). Do you want to be able to control one or two subwoofe... | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect As an audio enthusiast with an engineering background, have you ever experimented with DIY cabling?? I have tried 12 AWG 16 AWG - can't say as I can hear a difference but I tend to try to choose components in a rather specific way;=> speakers ... |