simonmoon
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| What Makes your System Special? Several things make it special.First off, the fact that my speakers are DIY, based on the (late) great speaker designer, Jeff Bagby’s "Kairos" monitors, sitting on his woofer modules designed for the Kairos. These use the extremely good SB Acousti... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados If this isnn‘t classical music I don‘t know what is. I'll go with option B; you don't know what is. | |
| Why Does All Jazz Sound The Same? Squeaky squeak squeak, honk honk honk, ratta tap tap, bing bang bong, tinkle tinkle, rumble bum bum. God I love it! I know you say you love it, and you are probably being a bit facetious, but for the uninitiated, it should be pointed out, that... | |
| Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo $300,000 buys a lot of concerts....you know...live music? Reality? For years....Probably decades... I constantly see this type of comment pop up on threads about very expensive audio gear. But all one has to do, is give it a modicum of thought ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Starting a few years ago, I pretty much lost all my interest in classical music from the common practice eras (1600-1900). I was not exactly happy about the situation, since a large part of my music collection has been sitting dormant since then.I... | |
| DIY Speakers Let me also refer you to YouTube. Another great speaker designer, Javad Shadzi has some good vids of his designs and builds, measurements, special construction methods, etc. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM7Xtn-Ootn5mtL2heHb0cw/videos Remember,... | |
| DIY Speakers Thanks for the info, the two links above aren’t working. Here they are again:https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/index.phphttp://www.troelsgravesen.dk/Diy_Loudspeaker_Projects.htm should work now. | |
| DIY Speakers Let me also recommend, joining DIY Audio forums.https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/index.phphttp:// Lots of great resources over there, extremely knowledgeable people, some people that will cut your wood for you, and industry people. | |
| DIY Speakers I am a huge fan of DIY speakers. It is quite easy these days, to build a high end speaker from a kit, that will rival commercially sold speakers for, quite a bit less $$. Ending up with something that sounds as good as a commercially available spe... | |
| To horn or not to horn I think that a listener’s preference for horns (assuming that they are good ones) will be in good part based on how much they value realistic dynamics, and the sense of ease that horn loudspeakers display.That is not the priority of every listener... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? Pretty much any Klipsch for me. Yes, even the Klipschorn.At every price point, there are speakers that are more accurate, more detailed, better imaging. The Klipsch's good dynamics are not nearly enough for me to overlook everything else they don'... | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... It’s a compromise to have active speakers and is technology mostly embraced by the professional audio sound people. They listen for frequencies, not tonal shadings or micro dynamics...certainly not for the differences in instrument voicing or s... | |
| Beryllium Tweets Beryllium tweeters is not "the new kid on the block", Been around since the 80’s.But the real problem is, that many people (may be even the majority) that think they have heard a beryllium tweeter, have nor really heard one. https://www.youtube.co... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Pretty silly OP, for sure. Audiophiles are those that enjoy audio equipment. Those that can solder, build or test their speakers, are a subset of the greater set of audiophiles. As one who does build and test my own audiophile level speakers, I am... | |
| Speakers "Disappearing" I have read a lot about speakers "disappearing" so that one can't tell from where the sound is emanating. But, what about all the stereo tunes where the recordiing engineer intentionally pans the music to come from one side or the other? Can the... |