shadorne
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| Test Equipment vs The Ear @williewonka Yes. This non linearlity as measured by Soundstage affects dynamic range directly. Acting as a limiter or compressor to the louder sounds. The Speaker will sound dull boomy and congested - nearly all speakers do at louder levels - ... | |
| Digital coax cable, real world experiences? Try to upgrade your gear next - a big difference says more about your components quality than the cable. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @greg22lz Multiple driver designs are actually old school designs that have been tried and were not successful. Even Macintosh built a speaker just like Eric's. Bose tried this too. | |
| what speakers to buy @gdhal If you were not so intent on pushing Triton you might have read this thread. Cycles2 is correct - there is an earlier post with a link to a pair of used Focal Utopia that is within the OP's budget. | |
| Test Equipment vs The Ear @williewonka I am surprised you are not aware of Soundstage linearity measurements on Speakers.These show how bad most speakers are. Severely lacking in dynamic range and audibly compressing at 90 DB in most cases. | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers +1 Stewart Copeland often plays on top or ahead of the beat and has a tendency to push the tempo. He gives an urgency and energy to his playing that few drummers convey. Good skill at the one drop as well as jazz (Murder by Numbers)!The Police Cer... | |
| Is this an ugly speaker? TAS cover 10/2017 Looks like a giant plastic ski boot or something on the Nostromo in Ridley Scott's masterpiece.Not my "cup of tea" | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @salectric No wish from me to rain on anyone’s parade. Horns can and do sound fantastic - it is all about the quality of drivers and the design - 2nd harmonic changes the timbre (more euphonic) but it is not bad sounding like odd harmonics. Magic... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world @koost_amojan Yes the F cone is a fibrous fabric design. Excellent cone material. JM Lab are following well understood and proven design criteria while many manufacturers do not. Sandwich designs allow for shear mode damping if the internal materi... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium Preamplifier. DESTROYS SPEAKERS!! @fsonicsmith Where was your GTI made - Mexico?I drive a 2017 Golf R that was made in Germany and so far not a single issue in six months. I was a bit nervous given all the reports in the press about VW but this car is as solid as any vehicle I hav... | |
| Spotify vs. Apple Music vs. Google Play vs. Tidal: Which is Best Tidal by far is best | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @johnk I agree that nothing is perfect but in the context of this thread - horns have long been surpassed by the modern era of conventional drivers (starting in the 70’s) which have performance up to -70dB of THD - a massive 30dB less distortion ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? @johnk What about non linear affects from compression in the throat of the horn? This usually results in high 2nd harmonic distortion. Since it is caused by air compression, my understanding is that it is an inherent design limitation of horn tran... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I thought we got past the limitations of horns about 35 years ago - once transistor amplifiers became of good quality and allowed more power to be widely available.Horns are simply not the best in terms of accuracy but they do deliver exceptional... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers There are chops.There is musicality (contribution to the song)There is time keeping.Chad Smith has all three. Porcaro, Keltner, Bonham and many greats had all three. Ringo had two but he was exceptionally good at two. Most drummers are at most exc... |