simonmoon
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| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? It'll be a bit like Tektons. No it won't.Just because Tektons have quite a few drivers in them, does not mean they are in any way similar to have multiple speakers stacked or side by side. Please watch the vids by the designer, Eric Anderson on... | |
| How do you know if you need to add a sub (without auditioning one, I mean)? Not only do subs add very low notes that the vast majority of ’full range’ speakers aren’t capable of reproducing, but there is a lot of ambient information in low frequencies. Especially in classical music, recorded in a concert hall.Even if the ... | |
| Has Anyone Ever Run TWO Identical Pairs of Speakers ? I will have to reiterate some of the things I have said on another thread about playing multiple speakers stacked, or side by side.I do not recommend it, at all. When multiple drivers, that aren’t specifically designed to play at the same frequenc... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? I must say that these studies illustrate well the general tendency to stop all interior evolution by the age of 30....Many people are already "dead" or fixated in their evolution by 30 years of age....This is why music is almost all a "nostalgia... | |
| How eclectic is your taste in music? This is an interesting subject for me. To begin with, there have been several good studies that show, that the vast majority of people’s tastes in music are set by the time they are 30. People listen to the music that was their favorite when they ... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? If you want to keep up to any degree with what is happening NOW, you need a good digital source. I absolutely agree!Being a huge fan of contemporary classical music, limiting oneself to vinyl, would eliminate so much incredible music from the ... | |
| Does anyone play two pairs of speakers at the same time? Has anyone seen the Tekton "The perfect Set"? It has a few tweeters in each cabinet! But if you read the white paper on the design behind this, it is not just sticking a few tweeters in the cabinet.They are all acting as one driver. In other wo... | |
| Is carpet on wall behind speakers counter productive? Just because something is soft, and therefore might seem absorptive to sound, does not mean it is. There is no way, without doing some pretty extensive tests, to see at what frequencies the specific carpet you have, will absorb.And maybe, your par... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? Being a big fan of mid to late 20th century, and contemporary classical music (you know, the 'thorny' sounding stuff), I have a quite a few vinyl recordings on Nonesuch records in their "Spectrum: New American Music" series. These were considered ... | |
| Classical music listening... what is a better source High Rez or Vinyl? For me, it’s:DSD and 24/192VinylCDThe main reasons for this order, for me is, that with classical, I care a lot about imaging, soundstage and other spatial cues. And I think DSD, 24/192 and vinyl do those things better than CD (16/44.1). CD create... | |
| Magico compared to Tannoy Magico will offer a substantially more accurate, detailed, lower distortion, better attack and decay, presentation.Tannoy will have an older style, more colored reproduction.I have heard the "sterile vs involving" types of statements made many tim... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Von Schweikert Ultra 11I don’t think I ever heard a speaker get as close to reproducing the scale of an orchestra, but also get a lone singer with an acoustic guitar so right in size and scale.All the while, not sounding dynamically compressed, ex... | |
| Unheralded masterpieces revisited? T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland (1970)A brilliant album that straddles the line between psych and prog. 1st side has 3 great tracks, including the emotional "No More White Horses". And some great horns on Side 2 is a side long track.Incredibl... | |
| Rush - The New Birth Control I would argue that Rush was really a prog band, although they did have a prog-ish phase. And yes, I am a fan.But the article is pretty funny.Seriously, there are prog bands (especially in the avant-prog subgenre), past and present, that make Rush ... | |
| Classical Rock Great Italian prog band, Banco, did an all instrumental album called "Di Terra" in 1978.It is one of the best integrations of a prog band and an orchestra I've ever heard. It doesn't just sound like a rock band fronting an orchestra. They play as ... |