toddalin
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| How competitive are you with your system? Ron’s system sounds really nice. Nice and clear. Very articulate. The Voss system..., not so much. | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Some old friends dropped by to play. You really hear the "noise" of the digital transfer on this CD. I should have engaged the "tube simulator". As always, this is on an Oppo-95 through a Yamaha RX-Z9 RECEIVER in "Pure Direct" mode and no eq or... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? If there are no pics/sound..., it didn't happen: This is the spectrum for the Heil without the reflector in place. Here we add the reflector with the 1MM spacer. Knowing that the woofer has a very steep slope at ~3,500 Hz, what would you rath... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? OK, here’s a thought for all those people who complain about the YT quality due to their compression and what not. Make a good video of your system and download it so that you can play it back as is. Then send it off to YT. Put both on your sys... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass So, what's Joni playing (make and model)? https://youtu.be/_kyQEa-QUd8 | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass It's not limited to square waves. A sawtooth wave also has an instantaneous rise or fall time, as the case may be. In the real world of music, a square wave would most sound like a clarinet, a sawtooth wave like a string, with bow spikes, a sine... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? 1MM spacers. As I noted, takes out upper midrange and adds to the high end..., maybe a bit too much. As I said, everything is a compromise. I’ll probably try 0.6MM. https://youtu.be/_kyQEa-QUd8 A nice thing about YouTube is that you can go ba... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? The problem with piano recordings is that many are too wide to be realistic. I don’t know of any pianos that are 8 feet and wider. But it is good for checking intonation and clarity. https://youtu.be/_kyQEa-QUd8 | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass The attack on a pipe organ on a really deep note takes time for the pipe/chamber to fill so the note comes on more gradually. A synthesizer can play basically any waveform all the way down to subharmonic. A subharmonic square wave with an instan... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Money??? We don't need no stinkin' money. For a couple cents worth of filament, I can 3D print spacers to go between the Heil reflectors and the bodies that will create a greater difference in sound than $$$ cables. As it is, I just push the ref... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass Synthesizer beats an organ for bass. All organ bass has a slow attack compared to what can be done with a synthesizer. And the right synthesizers can go infrasonic, and not just to modulate the audio oscillators, filters, and voltage controlled ... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? @mihorn @carlos269 I decided that in fact the upper midrange was a bit brash. Rather than being in the upper end of the 10", it was in my tuning of the Heil. I have developed a method of tuning the Heil AMT quite unlike any other yielding a tot... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Makes one wonder how many people refuse to post because they’ve spent mega bucks and are afraid that others will feel that they just don’t "measure up" or recognize that when held up to the direct transfer, they actually don’t??? | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Perfect example: Sounds to me like someone wasted $340,000. https://youtu.be/kVe9SEm69Fg https://youtu.be/radHy4HhhNg | |
| How competitive are you with your system? @cleeds But the direct transfer undergoes the same transformation, so the two should be equivalent. No one is talking the ultimate in fidelity. I keep noting that there are qualities that cannot be conveyed (e.g., soundstage, imaging), but the ... |