shadorne
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| Break in period Gregm,IMHO, although high damping factors is a "pushed" feature of SS amps....I think it is really over rated.Frankly the driver Qes and Qms coupled with the box design almost entirely dominates driver response...above a damping factor of about 5 ... | |
| Break in period Methinks that they are hearing differences due to frequency response differences which are quite discernable even over 10%THD of the speakers.Salut, Bob P. Agreed. I expect you are referring to the higher output impedance of a tube (with ouput tr... | |
| Break in period Gregm,I have a very old pdf of a paper that Billy Woodman published which explains his driver construction philosophy. It includes plots of speaker distortion and discusses IMD distortion and the advatanges of active versus passive designs. Unfort... | |
| Room modes are hijacking my music I second Kr4. | |
| Break in period Did you measure distortion levels and how do you know it is harmonic distortions? I did not make measurements but harmonic distortion is quite easily recognized for its warmth, woody or resonant sound.I doubt ATC would make a more expensive big b... | |
| Break in period Atmasphere, Shadorne, are you saying IOW that you hear changes but you attribute them to yourself rather than the gear? Often yes. Depending on the last time I had a cold the changes can be significant. Most often it is the result of focusing on s... | |
| Break in period Guidocorona,I gave you a few brand names of a few consistent sounding, respected engineering and manufacturing firms (mass produced) that are well known reliable products. If, as you say yourself, your gear changes response or requires an extensiv... | |
| Break in period Yamaha, Sony, Denon, Pioneer.....do these guys use the same quality parts as say ARC? They make designs mostly using transistors. The pre-amp you refer to uses tubes. The quality of the individual parts cannot be directly compared as the designs ... | |
| Break in period Perhaps you would care to enlighten us with just 5 or 10 of the most well known and respected examples. If I gave you well known names from respected engineering and manufacturering bands like Sony, Denon, Pioneer, and Yamaha would this help? Sin... | |
| Break in period could you tell us what you mean by 'quality of components' Obviously there are many things that define quality and this may differ from person to person as to what they are looking for (THD+N, TIM, Channel Separation, power, headroom, etc.). I si... | |
| Any good CD for setting up/positoning a Subwoffer? Try The Raven by Rebecca Pidgeon - the track "Spanish Harlem"The bass notes should all be of equal loudness.The fundamentals of the notes are (in Hz)49 62 73 65 82 98 73 93 110 | |
| CD Read Errors--Rare? It depends. There are a lot of effects going on. Nerve bundles in the ear fire slowly - less than 4 Khz. So one individual error may or may not be audible depending on when it occurred. Of course many errors would audible. | |
| DSP'ing a CD It is possible. What you describe is what mathematicians call a deconvolution filter...you apply a filter to the signal so that what you get back is only the original signal. Think of what you hear as the original signal convolved with the respons... | |
| DVD music concerts Dave,Thanks. I saw your post and I decided I must have "Lightning in a Bottle" - you convinced me. It is one of the 50% on this thread so far that I don't have, and it really caught my interest.I also have Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Down & Dirty ... | |
| Cables that cost more than the speakers? You know what's way stranger is $12,000 speakers and cable that costs a few hundred dollars, that's not strange that's dumb. A speaker cannot reveal detail and resolution that is not there because the cable isn't capable of letting it through. By... |