shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Musicality vs Transparency & Detail How have you been able to achieve excellent detail retrieval without getting an etched fatigue inducing sound. I found the solution was to go to pro studio speakers. Consumers designs are all designed to impress the listener in one extreme way or... | |
| Zu Druid questions If you like the speaker or vegetable or movie, it doesn't really matter what the gauges, meters, formulae or critics say. I understand this subjective view. However, whether you like broccoli more than potatoes is hardly useful to another in help... | |
| Zu Druid questions Sorry to those affronted by "grandstanding" with unecessary detailed discussion here on the Zu Druids. As several have pointed out and continue to reiterate "measurements have no meaning", as the Zu Druids are a fantastic speaker irregardless of w... | |
| Zu Druid questions Shardone - Some of this or that might be related to rainbows and puppydogs. If the driver is breaking up anywhere in its band I can't hear it. You couldn't either. When the frequency response becomes very spikey above a certain frequency cone bre... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2 or Focal Electra 1037 be? Mert,Congratulations. Time to update your virtual system pics!Obvioulsy you are happy but do let us all know how the presentation differs from the electras... | |
| Which Recordings Have Widest Soundstage The earlier days of stereo, for example Beatles Sgt Pepper and Sly and The Familly Stone. Thousands of examples exist. Duran Duran's sound engineers did lots of tricks...listen to "Tiger" on "Seven and the Ragged Tiger"...not great music but the e... | |
| Does the"quality" of jumpers affect the sound? How come there is so much made of absolute polarity then? It doesn't seem to make sense. Agreed - too much is made of absolute polarity. Relatve polarity and relative phase of signals in the frequency spectrum are much more important than anythin... | |
| I need help on directionality of speaker cables The arrow points in the direction of current flow Since current flows in both directions (AC signals) then I suggest that the arrow points towards something else (perhaps the person who fell for what must essentially be a marketing ploy) | |
| Room ratios I'm with Arthur - just install some corner bass traps in each corner (larger the better) | |
| Best Place for Negative Reviews? you forgot to include : trust your ears. I agree. Armed with your own set of test CD/LP's I think you can't go far wrong. The danger is when the demo is made with unfamiliar pieces. Danger being that the music is selected by the person making the... | |
| Zu Druid questions The problem with the Soundstage measurements was that they hung the speakers in free-air, per standard protocol. They were informed of the speakers' need for floor loading but they were unwilling to break procedure to measure the speakers. The ef... | |
| Best Place for Negative Reviews? Dusty,Reviews are very useful for features, charts and test measurements (less reliable for the reviewers impression of sound quality - unless you can read between the lines). What Hifi magazine is a probably the most sober guide I have seen. trus... | |
| What song best describes you or your life? Life's been good so far - Joe Walsh | |
| Question concerning db sensitivity One of these days I'd like to see how a two-way with waveguide-loaded tweeter compares side-by-side with something like an ATC SCM-50. Yes that would be interesting. ATC adapt a vifa tweeter with a short conical waveguide on the small two way SCM... | |
| Plasma issues, is it worth it? I own both a plasma and an LCD in 42" designs. Both are of similar extremely high quality but I would not call either of them the absolute best available on the market (call it second model from the top range).I would have bought plasma but they d... |