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1: Inmate Central, Tansy Ragwort? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-27, 12:58:37 (63.155.64.231)
A common pastureland weed here in the PNW. Very bad for horses and cattle, less so for sheep, and goats can apparently eat it with impunity. Some years ago, the Cinnibar Moth was introduced to help co .......
2: General Asylum, Because it would be ridiculously expensive? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-27, 12:47:52 (63.155.64.231)
nt .......
3: Speaker Asylum, How Maggies overcome it (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-26, 14:02:26 (63.155.64.231)
Here is JA's nearfield quasi-anechoic graph of a Maggie LRS speaker, reviewed in 2019. Note the HUGE boost in the lower frequencies, which will be effectively cancelled by the backwave and flatten .......
4: General Asylum, A near-anechoic room like that could be ideal for a 12-ch Atmos system (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-26, 13:01:15 (63.155.64.231)
The reverberant field of the original recording venue, as captured by the recording and decoded by Atmos, could be reproduced with extreme accuracy, since the room itself will be imposing very little .......
5: Speaker Asylum, Dipole cancellation (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-25, 15:34:01 (63.155.64.231)
As frequencies go down, wavelengths become longer and the out-of-phase rear wave from the driver wraps around the open baffle and increasingly cancels the output from the front of the driver, effectiv .......
6: Speaker Asylum, Multiple woofers in parallel (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-18, 17:13:25 (63.155.64.231)
This seems to be a popular approach among upscale speaker designers to achieve high sensitivity with extended low frequencies. Unfortunately, it also results in brutally low impedance with nasty phase .......
7: Inmate Central, Every time I see an AstroTurf lawn . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-18, 16:57:46 (63.155.64.231)
. . . I want to stick plastic dandelions in it. .......
8: Inmate Central, Pie are round. Cornbread are square. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-14, 14:10:15 (63.155.64.231)
nt .......
9: Inmate Central, Hell, what's wrong with a 4-speed stick shift and a clutch pedal? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-13, 16:16:51 (63.155.64.231)
That's all I've ever driven. All this weird new tech being applied to cars looks to me like a solution in search of a problem. .......
10: General Asylum, Invented in '79. Redbook standard published in '80. Hit the market in '82. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-12, 14:08:24 (63.155.64.231)
And yeah, as the record companies rushed to reissue their catalogs in the new medium, the first commercial releases were generally horrible. In many cases the remastering engineers totally didn't unde .......
11: Vinyl Asylum, Touch of Grey . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-11, 16:03:19 (63.155.64.231)
. . . was perhaps their biggest ever hit single, and brought in a whole new, younger contingent of fans. Beautifully ironic for a song about getting old and grumpy. .......
12: Inmate Central, Poor little hateful Haiti (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-08, 14:27:37 (63.155.64.231)
First became a "nation" as a result of one of the very few successful slave revolts in history. And the freed slaves were every bit as cruel to the French colonists as the French had been to them. Tha .......
13: Inmate Central, "Development of new technologies" . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-08, 13:26:40 (63.155.64.231)
. . . will neither be imposed nor directed by the UN. It will come, as always, from private industries who see a profitable market born of necessity. If I were younger, and had a lot of spare capital .......
14: General Asylum, And artificial intelligence (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-08, 13:11:59 (63.155.64.231)
For those too lazy to think. .......
15: Inmate Central, 'Tis the season to be sneezin' (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-07, 15:32:10 (63.155.64.231)
Just getting started here in Oregon. Lots of rain has been keeping it under control, but I don't look forward to the next month or so. .......
16: General Asylum, Mass market low end . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-07, 15:24:40 (63.155.64.231)
. . . and probably better than what most of us had when we were kids. .......
17: General Asylum, Contact corrosion . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-07, 12:26:50 (63.155.64.231)
. . . was my thought too. A bit of oxidation on the contact surfaces of the fuse and/or the clips that hold it COULD add a tiny bit of series capacitance, which MIGHT account for the bit of noise that .......
18: General Asylum, The old David Hafler passive surround circuit (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-05, 14:39:43 (63.155.64.231)
I've tried it, a long time ago, with mediocre results. Drawbacks are: There is no time delay on the rear speakers, unlike with true "surround" channels. Results may sound more confusing than spacious. .......
19: Inmate Central, Attack of the Giant Hogweed! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-03-05, 12:32:03 (63.155.64.231)
One of the few invasive plants I know of that rated its own song. Along with "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds," of course. Some these were found in Oregon a few years ago, and, fortunately, eradicated on the spo .......
20: General Asylum, The Giles Martin interview in Stereophile, a few months back. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-29, 12:48:36 (63.155.31.243)
It doesn't seem to be posted on the website yet, though equipment reviews which mention that reissue are. In the interview, he extols the AI software which allowed him to produce both a multichannel D .......
21: General Asylum, Exactly! What comes out should be identical to what goes in, in all significant parameters (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-28, 15:48:55 (63.155.31.243)
For amplification, Peter Walker called it "straight wire with gain." And many modern amplifiers come very close to that ideal. Trouble is, transducers at BOTH ends of the chain still fall far short of .......
22: General Asylum, The newest remaster of the Beatles' "Revolver" apparently involved some AI (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-28, 13:17:22 (63.155.31.243)
And it sounds wonderful, like it always should have. More separation between voices and instruments, more clarity, much lower noise floor, etc. But it wasn't just a "plug 'n' chug" application of AI - .......
23: Inmate Central, Demagogues have always pandered to the resentment and bigotry of the ignorant (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-27, 15:56:17 (63.155.31.243)
And it's worked for them more often than not. Consider Hitler as an extreme example. The 95% or so of the population with IQs below 120 are basically allergic to facts and incapable of rational though .......
24: Tweakers' Asylum, Rephrased for clarity: tiny fractions of an Ohm DO reduce damping factor . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-26, 15:06:43 (63.155.31.243)
. . . by an infinitesimal amount. Nothing close to the 4 Ohms or more of a tube amp's output transformer. But I like fat cables (high purity OFC) anyway, just because. .......
25: General Asylum, Gonna take a lot more than a "lightweight curtain" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-26, 14:52:01 (63.155.31.243)
to offset the harm done by all that glass. Something like a heavy felt drapery (the kind they make yurts out of) or a couple of futons. Maybe you could rig some recording studio style "gobos" on wheel .......
26: Inmate Central, . . . has its Eastern equivalent in the concepts of reincarnation and karma (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-23, 14:55:07 (63.155.31.243)
Hinduism is all about "go back, Jack, and do it again." Each time around you should try to do it a little better, so in the next incarnation you will have greater opportunity for moral/spiritual impro .......
27: Tweakers' Asylum, Why would you want to reduce damping factor? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-23, 14:38:42 (63.155.31.243)
High DF is a selling point for many high powered SS amplifiers, which can take firm control of low-impedance speakers. Enough series resistance to audibly reduce it would result in mushy, uncontrolled .......
28: Cable Asylum, Depends on how OCD you get about wire? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-21, 16:27:35 (63.155.31.243)
nt .......
29: Tweakers' Asylum, Wire resistance is infinitesimal compared to speaker impedance. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-21, 16:25:04 (63.155.31.243)
Tiny fractions of an Ohm don't matter. .......
30: Inmate Central, Greenland gets greener. Iceland gets volcanoes. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-19, 15:07:04 (63.155.31.243)
nt .......
31: Inmate Central, Sure. "When Russia does it, it's wrong. When the US does the same thing, it's right." (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-19, 15:05:18 (63.155.31.243)
Learned in grade school that hypocrisy is an essential element of politics. .......
32: Critic's Corner, The Armor-all is SUPPOSED to be buffed off after it dries (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-19, 12:46:23 (63.155.31.243)
With a soft optical cloth suitable for lenses. The tweak doesn't noticeably change the sound of the CD, but it polishes out small scratches that might otherwise cause glitches in the data stream. I've .......
33: Speaker Asylum, Vintage-o-philes? Collectors? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-16, 12:07:30 (63.155.31.243)
Folks who love that "obsolete sound"? There is apparently a strong market for such "classic" gear in Japan. .......
34: Inmate Central, And I'm a bloody Mick, and proud of it! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-14, 13:14:58 (63.155.31.243)
Name the ONE European country which NEVER persecuted its Jewish minority? You got it, IRELAND! .......
35: Critic's Corner, That was Sam Tellig with the twisted 18ga RatShack solid core (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-09, 13:08:52 (63.155.31.243)
I experimented with it too. Hard to say about the sound, as I had no experience with bling cables. It was kind of sproingy and ungainly to work with. Then I got a big spool of Stinger brand 12ga mult .......
36: General Asylum, Yeah, well, Willie's cool (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-09, 12:36:15 (63.155.31.243)
He came up the long, hard way, and built his reputation on talent, not corporate promotion. Not really a product of the "star-maker machinery/ behind the popular song" as Joni put it. Joni's cool, too .......
37: General Asylum, Anyone popular enough to be rich and famous has GOT to be lousy (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-08, 15:48:19 (63.155.31.243)
Sure, Americans love their popular trash culture, and the more noisy, vulgar, imbecilic, and violent it is, the better they like it. Insofar as possible, I try to avoid all contact with it. It's a mat .......
38: Critic's Corner, And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-02-08, 15:19:51 (63.155.31.243)
Gee, I wonder why? Could it be than a recent college graduate who loves music and wants better sound, but has limited discretionary income, might be a bit put off by such prices? Might decide the whol .......
39: Critic's Corner, "Flat to 25 Hz" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-22, 14:51:25 (63.155.4.30)
Maybe with the speaker right against a wall and the measurement mic less than a meter away? At a low enough SPL not to excite distortion nasties? .......
40: Amp/Preamp Asylum, They should change the hometown name to BLINGhamton, NY (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-12, 15:09:13 (63.155.16.166)
nt .......
41: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Opinions on Emotiva amps? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-12, 15:04:41 (63.155.16.166)
Their prices are EXTREMELY reasonable, even affordable for an average working person. BUT, are they any good? How does their sound quality stack up against similar-spec Class A-B amplifiers, above and .......
42: General Asylum, Lava Lamps! Naugahyde beanbag chairs! Peter Max prints! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-12, 14:01:51 (63.155.16.166)
Conversation pit! Desert Gold or Avocado shag carpet, with matching kitchen appliances! Hide the bong and the Playboys! Mom's coming to visit! .......
43: Inmate Central, If one of my redneck friends shoots Bambi . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-11, 12:39:47 (63.155.16.166)
NO WAY am I gonna turn down some fresh venison! But I will not touch factory-farmed meat from animals raised in cruel, unnatural conditions and butchered in unsanitary slaughterhouses. That's the filt .......
44: Cable Asylum, Love those "loose and hydrated" mids! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-10, 16:06:30 (63.155.16.166)
nt .......
45: Inmate Central, As long as they don't come to Oregon (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-10, 12:01:47 (63.155.16.166)
We're already getting far too many rich, retired Californicators who overload our infrastructure, drive up prices of everything, and don't want to pay any taxes. Some 50 years ago, the rednecks down a .......
46: Critic's Corner, JA doesn't measure distortion, but . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-08, 14:58:27 (63.155.16.166)
I'll bet that the Willies can play much lower, much louder, much cleaner. Look also at the measured cabinet resonances -- the Klipsch box has a bunch of resonant modes, while the Willies are dead-dadd .......
47: Inmate Central, Biggest hailstone on record . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-08, 14:31:32 (63.155.16.166)
. . . measured eight inches in diameter, 18.62 inches in circumference, and weighed 1.9375 pounds. It produced a 10-inch (25 cm) impact pit. The official record-breaker fell in a severe hailstorm in V .......
48: Inmate Central, Did you realize that the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-05, 13:02:21 (63.155.16.166)
Because the writers of that document were highly civilized men, not the sort of ignorant barbarians who think executed felons "should be screaming out begging for mercy." When the state stoops to the .......
49: Amp/Preamp Asylum, There's nothing wrong with his English except a lack of paragraph breaks (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-05, 12:41:06 (63.155.16.166)
Really. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure are just fine. I'd say he writes better than 90% of American high school grads. He just needs to break it up by topics. NB: I used to be .......
50: Speaker Asylum, You mean Dahlquist invented L-brackets? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-03, 12:18:51 (63.155.16.166)
I guess they were a specialized permutation of that centuries-old concept? .......
51: General Asylum, "Trespass" is especially dynamically compressed (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-02, 13:29:36 (63.155.16.166)
On "Visions of Angels" the chorus wants to soar to the heavens, but bumps its head on a rather low ceiling. The original vinyl sounded like that. I originally blamed the pressing, and thought the CD w .......
52: General Asylum, Grateful Dead "Anthem of the Sun" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-02, 12:39:49 (63.155.16.166)
Perfect example of what happens when you let a bunch of stoned hippies loose in an advanced recording studio without adult supervision. "Hey, DUDE! We got 32 tracks to play with. Let's saturate the cr .......
53: Speaker Asylum, Patents have been granted for far sillier things (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2024-01-02, 12:27:59 (63.155.16.166)
How 'bout individual "slices" (like cheese) of peanut butter, packaged between layers of plastic or waxed paper? See link. A machined balsa/CF laminate speaker cone is FAR more imaginative than that! .......
54: Inmate Central, Dude! Surf's up! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-29, 15:23:34 (63.155.16.166)
28-33 foot waves on the south and central California coast. Flooding several blocks inland in some coastal towns. Expect lots of wet-suited fanatics with surfboards in the next few days, once the peak .......
55: Inmate Central, Sure, but it also had Roy Clark (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-29, 14:12:19 (63.155.16.166)
Not to mention frequent appearances by other great pickers like Chet Atkins. As a student guitarist, I used to watch Roy's fingers with fascination and awe. .......
56: Inmate Central, Background checks. Psych profiling. Higher qualification standards. Minimum IQ requirements. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-26, 15:54:29 (63.155.16.166)
Lots of ways to weed out the bad eggs, IF there is the will to do so. Of course there is much resistance to this idea among police unions, etc., but it makes sense for municipalities to be pickier abo .......
57: Inmate Central, Joshua fit the battle of Jericho . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-22, 11:43:06 (63.155.16.166)
. . . and genocided the Canaanites, the TRUE "original" inhabitants of the land he expropriated. Of course, his God told him to do it, which made it all OK. Hence the "moral" justification of the mode .......
58: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Pimp my amp! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-20, 12:03:01 (63.155.16.166)
Dartzeel gear is some of the most garish bling I've ever seen in this hobby. The epitome of conspicuous, tasteless consumption. .......
59: Vinyl Asylum, A quick search of ultrasonic jewelry cleaners . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-19, 15:15:48 (63.155.16.166)
. . . shows prices from $40 to $170. That means the ultrasound transducers are cheap enough, so much of the cost will be the tank and the record supporting/turning mechanism. The question is build qua .......
60: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Tubeaholics will insist on both (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-19, 15:07:03 (63.155.16.166)
But if you just want a little taste of tube "magic" (ie., euphonic distortion), go with a tubed pre into a SS power amp. Fewer heat and (un)reliability issues that way, and you avoid the typical outpu .......
61: General Asylum, In the early 1970s . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-19, 14:58:52 (63.155.16.166)
. . . any time the Dead were off the road, Jerry could be found, most any night of the week, playing music in some club in the greater Bay Area, with any of a number of different ensembles. Much of it .......
62: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Depends on humidity/temperature of storage conditions (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-18, 13:41:21 (63.155.16.166)
Rust never sleeps! Any equipment stored in a warm, damp place is prone to corrosion. Also, covering stored gear to keep dust out is a good idea. .......
63: General Asylum, Vince apparently sat in with the Dead a couple of times . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-18, 13:09:36 (63.155.16.166)
. . . and was in a side band with Jerry in summer '72. As a regular on the SF jazz scene, not that surprising that he crossed paths with them now and then. See linky. .......
64: Speaker Asylum, Better drivers would be wasted in a "buzz box" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-15, 15:00:45 (63.155.16.166)
Because boxes want to sing along with the drivers, but they carry a lousy tune. Put a better midwoofer in an undamped 1/4" MDF enclosure and it will certainly not sound its best -- maybe not even bett .......
65: Speaker Asylum, I've used some Tang Band drivers very similar to that. Very nice! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-12, 12:37:32 (63.155.16.166)
Mine are part of that same design line, but with black paper cones. I'm using them as midrange-up drivers in a 2-way system, crossed @ 400Hz to some Monoprice 8" woofers in some medium large standmoun .......
66: Inmate Central, Gallo is fine for Beef Burgundy (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-11, 15:06:37 (63.155.16.166)
Robust and hearty, complements the stew ingredients nicely. It's actually not that bad for washing down the stew, either, though if you're a snob you will prefer the real parlez-vous. .......
67: Music Lane, Hey (hey), Kid (kid), get offa my lawn! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-11, 14:50:19 (63.155.16.166)
nt .......
68: Cable Asylum, There's snake oil, and then . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-11, 14:48:03 (63.155.16.166)
. . . there's Python oil! .......
69: Speaker Asylum, Consider DIY (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-11, 13:16:49 (63.155.16.166)
Madisound carries a broad range of "fullrange" drivers from such respected marques as Aurasound, Fostex (including a couple of kits), Markaudio, HiVi, Peerless, SV, SEAS, and ScanSpeak. They can certa .......
70: Inmate Central, But I can never remember them when I wake up (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-08, 12:40:21 (63.155.30.51)
nt .......
71: Vinyl Asylum, "Slathered in reverb" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-06, 12:44:44 (63.155.30.51)
But it was the kind of reverb that sounds so COOL under herbal influence. The production no doubt helped sell records. .......
72: Inmate Central, Same old prohibitionist crap (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-12-05, 13:03:06 (63.155.30.51)
Same old distortions, half-truths, and outright lies that the prohibitionists have been spewing since the 1930s, as an excuse to persecute and imprison people for minding their own peaceful business i .......
73: Inmate Central, Thomas Jefferson argued . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-30, 15:25:17 (63.155.30.51)
. . . that the Federalist constitution granted too MUCH power to the Executive. And he was right, and presidents have been abusing their power ever since. Under a Parliamentary system, if the guy stin .......
74: Tweakers' Asylum, Was it still carbon tetrachloride back then? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-27, 14:48:27 (63.155.30.51)
Before the 1970 ban on use in consumer products, thatt was THE standard cleaner for pots, switches, commutators, etc. .......
75: General Asylum, Yeah, watch out for those desperate drivers! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-27, 12:14:37 (63.155.30.51)
They're a hazard out there! .......
76: Inmate Central, Most likely, but maybe not alone? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-22, 12:22:08 (63.155.30.51)
And there's little question that he was a double agent -- CIA recruit posing as pro-Castro to infiltrate Communist circles. One of the more prominent and plausible conspiracy theories is that the oper .......
77: Inmate Central, Mrs Sapolski's 4th grade classroom (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-22, 12:02:06 (63.155.30.51)
PS 20, Flushing, Queens, NYC. .......
78: Speaker Asylum, How about Neodymium (Iron Boron) magnets? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-21, 14:31:32 (63.155.30.51)
Not sure how these compare expense-wise to ceramic ferrite or Alnico, or whatever other drawbacks they might have, but they can apparently concentrate more magnetic flux density into less mass than an .......
79: Jazz Alley, Most Bill Evans trio recordings (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-20, 15:04:53 (63.155.30.51)
"Waltz for Debby" and "Live at Village Vanguard" are audiophile standards. And both feature Scott LaFaro -- one of the most melodious bassists ever. For that chilly, intellectual Scandinavian jazz sou .......
80: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Use 4 of the channels and passively bi-amp (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-20, 14:53:34 (63.155.30.51)
This works with true bi-wirable speakers. Or you could even actively bi-amp a passive-crossoverless pair of 2-way speakers with the pre-amp feeding an active crossover, that then feeds two amp channel .......
81: Inmate Central, No I did NOT mean that! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-17, 16:05:34 (63.155.21.3)
My objection is to dehumanizing -- as the OP did -- naive young men who find themselves drafted into a pointless and immoral war which is not of their making and whose reasons they barely comprehend. .......
82: Inmate Central, I think they start out green, but turn brown in the fall. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-17, 15:49:29 (63.155.21.3)
Along with the leaves. Camouflage. .......
83: Inmate Central, Or maybe 1300 young, dumb, brainwashed draftees? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-17, 12:54:01 (63.155.21.3)
How many American "scum" died in Vietnam? .......
84: Inmate Central, I'm also in Corvallis, and I've met . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-14, 15:31:02 (63.155.21.3)
. . . a number of homeless guys who (contrary to dehumanizing stereotypes) are sane, sober, and gainfully employed, but just can't afford the Snootyville rents. There is lots of empty talk about the n .......
85: Inmate Central, Many Jews (including many Israelis) are highly critical of Israeli govt. policies (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-13, 14:20:21 (63.155.21.3)
Does that make them anti-Semites? How about the many non-Jews who are anti-Nazi and anti-terrorist, but also anti-war and anti-genocide? And how can Arabs, a SEMITIC ethno-linguistic group, be anti-S .......
86: Critic's Corner, Note that those are NOT factory stock, off-the-shelf SEAS and Vifa drivers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-10, 12:23:50 (63.155.64.161)
They are OEM versions, highly customized to DeVore's specs, so he has to buy them in lots of a thousand. Modern SEAS midbass drivers are indeed capable of excellent bass extension for their size, espe .......
87: Inmate Central, Do you have Boletus edulis in those forests? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-08, 13:20:29 (63.155.64.161)
Also mycorrhizal with pine, and WAY better IMO than Lactarius! What other species do you collect in that area? .......
88: Inmate Central, Note that France's nukes are probably NOT pointed at Russia (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-06, 15:42:59 (63.155.64.161)
The only trouble France ever had with Russia was trouble started by Napoleon, and he lost badly. OTOH, France has been invaded, occupied, and devastated by Germany multiple times. Betcha anything THAT .......
89: Inmate Central, Something like 95% of all fatal mushroom poisonings . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-11-06, 13:42:46 (63.155.64.161)
. . . are caused by two very similar species of Amanita: the yellowish-green phalloides and white virosa species complexes, aka "Death Caps" and "Destroying Angels." They are large, elegant, attractiv .......
90: General Asylum, What is the absolute sound of one hand clapping? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-31, 14:18:37 (63.155.15.80)
nt .......
91: General Asylum, Madonna set a good example decades ago (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-30, 16:36:02 (63.155.15.80)
A smart businesswoman who knows how to market herself and how to manage her money. Nothing wrong with that at all. That doesn't mean I have to like her songs, or regard them as anything other than com .......
92: Speaker Asylum, Yes, much more so than a vented alignment (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-30, 16:24:37 (63.155.15.80)
If you have a woofer suited for sealed cabinet use, the different Qtc values corresponding to different box volumes are points along a continuum. Any Qtc between 0.5 (critically damped, with somewhat .......
93: Critic's Corner, Wilson is all about "prestige pricing" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-23, 15:12:27 (63.155.5.182)
Sure, their designs are excellent, their automotive paint jobs are gorgeous, and their proprietary cabinet materials are denser/less resonant than standard MDF, but they could still turn a tidy profit .......
94: Speaker Asylum, "said 'magic' has nothing to do with frequency response or any other measurable quality" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-23, 14:26:01 (63.155.5.182)
Dunno if I could venture that far into woo-woo land. Any speaker is, after all, an electromechanical device which fulfills its measurable acoustical function via measurable physical means. Mr. Palkovi .......
95: Speaker Asylum, When the port is properly tuned the resonant frequency of the driver . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-23, 13:45:48 (63.155.5.182)
. . . the sound at that frequency is produced almost entirely by the port, not the driver. This is the Helmholtz resonance of the box/port system. .......
96: Critic's Corner, The LoKe plate amp IS the Dayton SPA250-DSP (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-18, 13:50:58 (63.155.5.182)
And that amp is on sale right now at PE for $188. Only difference is that the Wilson OEM version has the Wilson trademark printed on it. And yeah, the connectors and controls look kinda cheesy. PE als .......
97: Speaker Asylum, Ask over at Parts Express Tech Talk (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-13, 13:23:57 (63.155.5.182)
That's where most of the speaker DIYers hang out. They also have a pro sound discussion board, with more focus on PA gear and horn speakers. Here, you will find some knowledgeable folks at the hi-eff .......
98: General Asylum, Exactly -- just like new shoes (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-09, 13:36:31 (63.155.5.182)
Take a while to limber up and get comfortable. At least new speakers don't give you blisters! .......
99: General Asylum, Those are intriguing, but are OB in the midrange only (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-10-06, 12:50:25 (63.155.5.182)
Thereby avoiding backwave wrap-around cancellations in the bass, which limit the LF extension of most planars. The OB midrange idea has been used by a number of makers over the years, sometimes with s .......
100: General Asylum, You get glue all over your hands, and on your clothes, and in your hair, and everywhere (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-27, 15:37:13 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
101: Music Lane, He's certainly prolific! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-25, 16:08:00 (63.155.72.192)
Seemed for awhile there he was putting out an album every few weeks. And certainly eclectic -- everything from dreamy mellow jazz-ambient, to progressive Klezmer, to avant-garde neoclassical, to harsh .......
102: Vinyl Asylum, Like the emporer's new mat? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-19, 13:06:05 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
103: Critic's Corner, If someone tries to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-11, 15:47:58 (63.155.72.192)
. . . and you fall for it, that's pathological gullibility. If you deny the existence of the bridge when you're looking right at it, THAT's pathological skepticism! .......
104: Tweakers' Asylum, That makes Ride of the Valkyries sound better! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-11, 15:42:26 (63.155.72.192)
Reputedly, that was AH's favorite tune. But then, I'd rather write Jesus and Love, and listen to some Bach chorales. .......
105: Tweakers' Asylum, And it harm none . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-11, 13:56:34 (63.155.72.192)
"Do what thou wilt" shall be the whole of the law. Seriously. The magic pen probably costs a few bucks at most. If you THINK it has a positive effect, and it makes you happy, go for it! .......
106: Speaker Asylum, Lining (not stuffing) a ported box . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-09-05, 13:20:46 (63.155.72.192)
. . . may reduce some internal HF reflections that would otherwise find their way out thru the port and color the sound. But there should remain an open passage between the back of the woofer and the .......
107: General Asylum, Flick this other one and it will sound just like a prerecorded cassette! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-30, 16:44:51 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
108: Speaker Asylum, Music Direct shows those as backordered/out-of-stock (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-30, 16:42:42 (63.155.72.192)
But they seem to be available from several other sources. I've had a couple of pair of Wharfedale "Diamond" series standmount speakers over the years, and found them pleasant but nothing spectacular. .......
109: Speaker Asylum, A response "hole" may be preferable to a big "blump" from too much overlap (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-25, 12:52:48 (63.155.72.192)
Ideally, you want a flat transition from subs to mains at the listening position. It would certainly help if you had some means of measuring in-room response. Something like PE's OmniMic system would .......
110: General Asylum, If you view the world through rose-tinted glasses . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-23, 12:50:24 (63.155.72.192)
. . . you can have both! .......
111: Speaker Asylum, See JA's horizontal/vertical off-axis plots. It doesn't. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-22, 15:16:29 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
112: Speaker Asylum, They're the most conventional model (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-22, 12:34:37 (63.155.72.192)
Simple 2-way. No challenge at all for a designer willing to tackle multi-tweeter arrays. .......
113: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Does that add distortion, or merely voltage instability into a variable impedance? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-21, 16:57:20 (63.155.72.192)
I always had the impression that the primarily 2nd order distortion of an SET circuit, or the 3rd order distortion of a push-pull pentode, was mostly down to the tubes themselves. Adding a couple of .......
114: General Asylum, And Humpty Dumpty said . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-21, 14:07:36 (63.155.72.192)
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Hu .......
115: Inmate Central, Still not as bad, or as long, as the Sept. 2020 heat wave (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-15, 15:24:31 (63.155.72.192)
Remember that one? Triple digit temps for what seemed like weeks on end, continuing into October. "Fortunately," all that smoke from Oregon's biggest forest fires on record -- fanned by high, hot east .......
116: General Asylum, Fake news! Everybody knows it's caused by Israeli space lasers! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 19:09:04 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
117: Speaker Asylum, Air leaks can get noisy, especially in a sealed alignment with large driver excursions (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 19:04:10 (63.155.72.192)
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. And it doesn't sound like the flatulence you'd expect from an air leak. Crank the volume and it sounds like a hard, nasty mechanical rattle. In my case, the woo .......
118: Speaker Asylum, Or "edge" or "shrillness" or "grain," if that's what's on the recording (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 18:56:28 (63.155.72.192)
And that's what's on too many recordings, especially digital ones! Give me a real nice, low-distortion, just-plain-tweeter (any type), that's shelved down maybe half a dB from the mid driver and rolls .......
119: Speaker Asylum, Which again raises the question, why do it? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 13:30:00 (63.155.72.192)
At age 70, I can still hear out to 12kHz on speakers and 16kHz on headphones. Because of the inherent shrillness in a number of CDs I otherwise enjoy, I tend to voice my DIY speakers with a slightly s .......
120: General Asylum, How Scan-Speak says "Do not touch"... (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 12:26:58 (63.155.72.192)
Safe from poky little fingers, unlike a conventional dome! .......
121: Speaker Asylum, Why supertweet? (Harbeth SHL5+XD) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-14, 12:17:05 (63.155.72.192)
This Harbeth model gets a very nice write-up from HR in the new S'phile. It looks in many ways to be a solid implementation of classic BBC design principles, but I'm puzzled by its use of a 22mm super .......
122: General Asylum, Step down speaker-level output of receiver to line level? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-08, 17:03:45 (63.155.72.192)
Putting together a spare-room system with some thrift shop components. I want to step down the speaker outputs of a class AB receiver with no preamp outputs, to drive the line-level inputs (10.4 K-Ohm .......
123: General Asylum, Best "Help Wanted" ad I ever read . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-07, 13:03:36 (63.155.72.192)
. . . was posted in a Seattle magazine called "The Rocket," sometime in the early 1980s by an up-and-coming grunge band. It went something like: Are you big, strong, and dumb as an ox? Do you crave ba .......
124: General Asylum, Ramones "Rocket to Russia" (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-08-01, 17:57:37 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
125: General Asylum, Which makes it great for marketing! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-31, 11:57:43 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
126: General Asylum, At that level, arm and cartridge are probably not included (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-31, 11:50:16 (63.155.72.192)
Gonna have to drop another hundred thou on the former, and another fifty thou on the latter, at minimum. .......
127: Speaker Asylum, Since you're going to replace the surrounds anyway . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-26, 14:53:56 (63.155.72.192)
, , , you don't need to worry if you mess the old ones up. Try getting a blunt blade under the trim rings from the surround side, not the cabinet side. Wiggle, pry, whatever, as you work gradually aro .......
128: Speaker Asylum, Dear Northeasterners: Please send some of your rain to the West! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-19, 13:34:48 (63.155.72.192)
You've got too much, and we need some desperately! Sigh . . . if only it was that easy. .......
129: General Asylum, Humor isn't funny! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-19, 11:36:11 (63.155.72.192)
nt .......
130: Speaker Asylum, "Wet Look" from Parts Express (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-19, 11:31:42 (63.155.72.192)
I've used this with good results. Adds a shiny moisture-proof coating to old paper cones. Put it on thin (you can thin it a bit with water) -- too much could add enough to the moving mass to alter oth .......
131: General Asylum, Yay for long shows. Boo for extortionate ticket prices. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-17, 12:42:51 (63.155.72.192)
If you like an artist, a 3.5 hour show is commendable. Only Springsteen, the Dead, and very few others used to play that long. But at $1,500 a ticket, can anyone really say they got their "money's wor .......
132: Speaker Asylum, Replacement woofers? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-17, 12:34:04 (63.155.72.192)
You might want to look for drivers with similar specs, that will yield comparable performance in your given enclosures, with the given plate amps. Figure the internal volume and port dimensions (if po .......
133: Speaker Asylum, Sad news (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-14, 11:50:35 (63.155.11.199)
Meniscus was the first supplier I ever ordered from, when I got into the DIY hobby some 35 years ago. I particularly appreciated that they offered custom-wound inductors in any value you want -- just .......
134: Vinyl Asylum, It even has a dust cover! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-12, 13:11:00 (63.155.11.199)
A feature lacking on many 'tables at 100 or even 1,000 times the price! Remember, dust never sleeps! .......
135: General Asylum, It's some of both (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-11, 16:04:13 (63.155.11.199)
Yeah the early generation players sucked, no doubt. But I have on hand for comparison both original and later remaster Cds of the first Dire Straits album, Court of the Crimson King, Crown of Creation .......
136: General Asylum, Many 1980s first-issue CDs of popular recordings sounded HORRID! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-11, 12:39:46 (63.155.11.199)
Murky, confused, shrill, edgy, etc. I remember being seriously disappointed when I started replacing my vinyl (Floyd, Tull, Dead, Airplane, Genesis, Dire Straits, Rush, Yes, Crimson, Stones, many othe .......
137: Speaker Asylum, "Wouldn't that be mitigated by setting the phase on the sub amp?" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-11, 12:03:49 (63.155.11.199)
Yes, IF the sub amp has continuously variable phase, like that pictured Reckhorn. Many sub plate amps have only a 180 degree phase switch, if that. .......
138: Critic's Corner, Review samples sometimes get damaged in transit (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-10, 15:33:40 (63.155.11.199)
And sometimes while in use by the reviewer. JA hypothesizes that a PCB trace may have been cracked when someone swapped tubes into an overly tight socket. Hardly the first time something like this has .......
139: General Asylum, Especially hard, shiny, reflective surfaces (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-10, 13:07:55 (63.155.11.199)
Like uncarpeted floors, windows, walls, ceilings, furniture (glass coffee tables being the worst), etc. High frequencies play pinball in a room like that, compromising imaging and localization of soun .......
140: General Asylum, Not quite loud enough to scare the neighbors (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-07-05, 10:42:24 (63.155.11.199)
Typically, around 75-80dB average, measured at the listening chair, with peaks up to 90+dB on more dynamic material. Have only ever had two noise complaints, and those were on summer evenings with all .......
141: Speaker Asylum, Sweet! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-30, 17:32:14 (63.155.11.199)
Needs a bit of a notch filter between 3 and 7kHz, but otherwise commendably flat response and good sensitivity. Of course, NOW we just have to find a woofer and a tweeter worthy of its company. ::: TO .......
142: General Asylum, "False narrative"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-30, 14:27:42 (63.155.11.199)
So I suppose the comparatively few climate-denialist scientists who are funded by oil and gas companies are NOT pushing a false narrative? But hey, whatever. At this point it doesn't really matter who .......
143: General Asylum, Recording! And Radio! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-30, 13:53:22 (63.155.11.199)
More accurately, what ruined MUSIC. A bit over 100 years ago, John Phillip Sousa worried that as recorded and broadcast music became more popular, fewer and fewer people would attend live performances .......
144: Speaker Asylum, Well, the natural XO frequency (-6dB) of the Purifi driver looks to be a little over 5.5kHz (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-30, 13:17:55 (63.155.11.199)
That's kinda high to cross to a tweeter. The midbass driver will be fairly beamy at that frequency, with a dip in the off-axis response followed by a flare as the tweeter rolls in. Unless you place th .......
145: Tweakers' Asylum, Sounds like a job for ASR (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-28, 13:25:50 (63.155.11.199)
One Amir might actually enjoy, if only to confirm his own prejudices. Send him two identical CDs, one green-edged and one plain, to analyze and compare the data streams. He has the gear to do it quick .......
146: Speaker Asylum, ONLY 100 lbs each? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-26, 15:24:06 (63.155.11.199)
Downright wimpy for a "high end" speaker! The Magico M9s referenced above by fstein weigh 10 times that much! Most comparably sized floorstanders from Wilson, Rockport, Estelon, Audiovector, Stenheim, .......
147: Speaker Asylum, I'm running stereo subs, a bit behind and to the side of the main speakers, plus a front-and-centered mono sub (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-26, 13:44:06 (63.155.11.199)
Not the same thing as a "swarm" -- they're all at the same end of the room as the main speakers, firing forward -- but they do smooth out the in-room response considerably. Compared to a single sub, t .......
148: General Asylum, Both brands still very much available, still offer good value (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-23, 15:40:37 (63.155.11.199)
30 years ago, those were two of the main brands sold by local shop, NW Audio Labs. Jim also carried high-value brands like Adcom, Parasound, and Rotel -- all of which I bought from him. My Parasound P .......
149: Speaker Asylum, Depends a lot on the main speakers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-23, 13:28:45 (63.155.11.199)
If you have little 2-way "bookshelf monitors" and they have to work hard to put out the lowest octave of which they are capable, highpassing them can be most beneficial, improving both midrange qualit .......
150: General Asylum, "This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page." (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-20, 15:24:46 (63.155.11.199)
I get that every time I click a link from the main menu. Then I click the "Stop" button, and it goes to the link. It's not a glitch, it's a feature! .......
151: General Asylum, How about a nearly empty, heavily padded room? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-19, 12:44:22 (63.155.11.199)
Like an anechoic chamber? I've been in one of those, a couple of times, and the effect is WEIRD! It's so quiet, you become intensely aware of your own body sounds -- breathing, heartbeat, blood rushin .......
152: Tweakers' Asylum, Is the tweeter a piezo type? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-14, 12:29:19 (63.155.11.199)
That would explain the lack of a series cap. Piezo elements are inherently capacitive, hence naturally highpassed, and don't need a filter. But it LOOKS like a dome. If it has a conventional voice coi .......
153: General Asylum, 150kV, 1,200 deg. Celsius, and poison gas. What's not to like? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-14, 12:16:03 (63.155.11.199)
If it hasn't electrocuted you, burned down your house, or damaged your lungs by the end of 5,000 hours, well worth replacing! .......
154: Jazz Alley, Legend has it . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-13, 15:51:10 (63.155.11.199)
. . . that he had a normal instrument originally. Someone sat on it when he left it on a chair between sets, and bent it. He liked the way it projected, and subsequently had others built that way. ::: .......
155: Critic's Corner, Herb's Falcons comment makes perfect sense to me (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-07, 17:31:51 (63.155.16.218)
LS3/5 type mini-monitors are known and loved above all for their sweet, natural midrange quality, but they remain SMALL speakers. Limited bass extension (especially in free air, away from room boundar .......
156: Critic's Corner, Old Volvos never die . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-02, 15:00:57 (63.155.16.218)
. . .They just get newer, piece by piece. That according to local singer-songwriter and expert Volvo mechanic Tom Demarest, who notes that replacement parts for practically every model ever made remai .......
157: General Asylum, The miniature model has a musical precedent! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-06-02, 14:39:11 (63.155.16.218)
It was even a 1/12 scale model, like the one in the experiment. .......
158: General Asylum, Repaint, and thin no more? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-30, 12:18:52 (63.155.16.218)
nt .......
159: General Asylum, Because you can't escape it? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-23, 15:26:58 (63.155.16.218)
Rock music blares! Doors slam! People yell! Children scream! Sirens whine! Trucks rumble and roar! And rock music blares! Blares! Blares! Blares! Is there any escape... from noise? Is there any escape .......
160: Speaker Asylum, Assembled enclosures add another $2,495 to the basic $3,145 parts kit cost (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-22, 13:58:07 (63.155.86.106)
Could be well worth it, unless one is an advanced woodworker with a well-equipped shop. Those blueprints look like they would be a bear to build from scratch. Too many non-right angles and non-paralle .......
161: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Spec sheet shows 65W RMS x2 @ 4 Ohm (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-10, 13:03:20 (63.155.86.106)
With 0.5% THD+N. The 100 WPC is maximum or peak power. THD+N not specified, but it's probably high enough to be audible. Would likely clip nastily on dynamic peaks at that level. Still, should be more .......
162: Speaker Asylum, Simpler might be better (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-09, 16:47:53 (63.155.86.106)
Assuming your preamp (or integrated amp) has dedicated stereo line outputs to drive subs, you are now summing the two channels to mono, then splitting that mono signal to feed both channels' line inpu .......
163: Amp/Preamp Asylum, And "the output cattle are the spirit of the courage" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-05-03, 12:22:40 (63.155.86.106)
How many cow power are equivalent to 75 WPC? .......
164: General Asylum, Just curious: how does "audio grade" differ from "hospital grade"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-28, 16:18:54 (63.155.86.106)
The latter have often been touted for their superior construction, tighter grip on the plug, and -- important an environment where you have oxygen tanks -- immunity from sparking. Are "AG" outlets bas .......
165: Speaker Asylum, When aiming for a low retail price, you must carefully choose your compromises (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-24, 12:41:32 (63.155.86.106)
And usually the cabinet construction gets compromised the most. I still get a chuckle out of Herb Reichert's comments on those vi-vi-vi-vibrating little Elacs. Exotic veneers/finishes are out of the q .......
166: Speaker Asylum, Nice job! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-24, 12:15:05 (63.155.86.106)
Love that faux-granite finish. (If only "woodgrain" spray paint came in a can!) Got an XO schematic, and graphs? Tempting as it is, I really DON'T need to build any more speakers. I only have a dozen .......
167: General Asylum, That would be deafness (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-21, 13:58:36 (63.155.86.106)
nt .......
168: General Asylum, Pop music radio in general, since programming is dictated by corporate marketing consultants . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-21, 13:56:26 (63.155.86.106)
. . . rather than by people who know or care anything about music. Been that way at least since the 1970s, in some cases much longer. "Country/Western" is itself a marketing category, combining the pr .......
169: General Asylum, Ah, but what is the right direction? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-18, 12:31:51 (63.155.86.106)
Doesn't that depend on how many times absolute polarity gets inverted going through the electronics? You need to know that first, to determine cable directionality. .......
170: Speaker Asylum, Yep, they look pretty old (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-18, 12:26:06 (63.155.86.106)
The presence of a couple of shielded woofers probably dates the whole set. But that probably means the Vifas are Danish-made, preceding Tymphany's takeover and move of production to China. Have fun, a .......
171: Vinyl Asylum, Loud noise exposure for sure (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-17, 12:53:13 (63.155.86.106)
I had a neighbor who flew helicopters for the Coast Guard for 20 years. He loved music, but had to turn the treble knob of his receiver all the way up to hear any high frequencies at all. It sounded u .......
172: Speaker Asylum, Attn. John Marks & other DIYers: some older high end drivers on clearance at PE (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-17, 12:45:38 (63.155.86.106)
It appears that Aerial Acoustics has liquidated some of their older inventory of OEM drivers by ScanSpeak, SB Acoustics, SEAS, and Vifa, and Parts Express bought the lot. Some very reasonable prices, .......
173: General Asylum, You're thinking of Ghenghis (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-12, 15:34:05 (63.155.86.106)
Before him, there was no Mongolian "nation." Just a bunch of constantly warring tribes of raggedy-ass horse barbarians. He whipped them into the most formidable cavalry the world had ever known, and w .......
174: General Asylum, The best "sound" doesn't call attention to itself (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-12, 15:14:03 (63.155.86.106)
It gets out of the way and lets the music through. Call that "neutral" or "natural" or whatever. You know it when you hear it, because your enjoyment of the tunes overrides any attempt to focus on son .......
175: Speaker Asylum, Very few available to DIY/OEM. Here's one. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-11, 14:42:57 (63.155.86.106)
Been thinking of getting a couple of these, to use as "super tweeters" with some old Radio Shack 5" "full range" drivers I have in small enclosures, that go up to 12kHz. There are also a couple of .......
176: Critic's Corner, Dunno . . . I think Herb's hearing is just fine (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-04-11, 12:18:33 (63.155.86.106)
But he often seems to show a preference for somewhat "eccentric" measuring products. Tube amps being one example. Maggies another. Euphonics? OTOH, he LOVED the little Genelec powered studio monitors, .......
177: Jazz Alley, I enjoy his "Faith Moves" album with Nicky Skopelitis (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-31, 17:06:55 (63.155.86.106)
Not too "outside," with exemplary guitar playing from both guys. First time I heard some of it on the local college station, I thought it was Carlos Santana. .......
178: Vinyl Asylum, DynaFLEX . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-31, 13:19:10 (63.155.86.106)
. . . were the ultra-thin records that RCA started making around 1973, in response to the oil "crisis" (when tankers were in a holding pattern offshore, waiting for the price to go up). Promo material .......
179: Vinyl Asylum, Then there was the 1987 mixup . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-31, 13:12:59 (63.155.86.106)
where a number of copies of the "Sid and Nancy" soundtrack were mislabeled as a Lawrence Welk record. Got those geezers pogo dancing around the rest home! .......
180: Vinyl Asylum, I used to have that problem! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-31, 13:06:43 (63.155.86.106)
Some neighbor had an overpowered CB radio, and my cassette deck picked it up loud and clear when I was trying to record live broadcast performances off FM radio. When I was a kid, we had a TV that pic .......
181: Speaker Asylum, The highest-end wool in the world: Vicuna (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 14:43:25 (63.155.86.106)
Closely related to Llamas and Alpacas, but with even finer-fibered wool. Once hunted nearly to extinction, now protected and recovering. Have to be lassoed to be sheared, because they are NOT domestic .......
182: Cable Asylum, Don't step on those cables. TRIP over 'em! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 12:54:01 (63.155.86.106)
nt .......
183: General Asylum, "Revealed details in familiar recordings that I'd never hear before" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 12:51:49 (63.155.86.106)
Almost invariably related to a huge response peak over a limited frequency range. .......
184: Critic's Corner, Glad it works for you (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 12:47:22 (63.155.86.106)
My problem is stiff, achy knees and ankles, especially in cold damp weather. I've tried gummies, infusions, and topical lotions -- all of which give some relief, but not as much as I'd like. Glucosami .......
185: General Asylum, How do they keep the knick-knacks in the glass-shelved display cases from rattling and buzzing? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 12:30:32 (63.155.86.106)
I certainly have rattle 'n' buzz problems with my far more modest system and room when the music has sufficient bass power. As in, every cupboard (and contents thereof), every window and door in the h .......
186: Speaker Asylum, Well, Joe D'Appolito later embraced LR4 crossovers for MTM (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-29, 12:05:24 (63.155.86.106)
His original research did, of course, stipulate third order Butterworth. Over time, he came to see the advantage of using steeper slopes while still maintaining the desired polar response. ::: TOPIC:: .......
187: Critic's Corner, CBD is a much overrated "panacebo" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-28, 12:59:01 (63.155.86.106)
Excellent antispasmodic/anticonvulsant for degenerative nerve conditions like Parkinson's and certain types of epilepsy. For most people, a moderately effective (at best) analgesic, muscle relaxant, .......
188: General Asylum, Yep, just the damn TV blatting away (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-28, 12:46:29 (63.155.86.106)
And then they blame the teachers when their kids have trouble learning to read. .......
189: Speaker Asylum, That's for panel damping rather than stuffing (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-28, 12:39:16 (63.155.86.106)
Looks useful for "large unbraced panel areas" as stated in the writeup. As in BBC type boxes, with thin panels. Maybe better than the "bituminous damping" traditionally used in such applications, beca .......
190: Isolation Ward, I always store CDs and LPs vertically (and alphabetically) on the shelf (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-27, 14:28:26 (63.155.86.106)
Just like books and magazines. Never thought about doing otherwise. Makes it easy to pull out and replace the desired title. Any possible sonic benefit is just gravy. .......
191: Speaker Asylum, Moths happen (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-27, 14:06:14 (63.155.86.106)
If you use wool in a reflex or TL cabinet, it should definitely be treated against moths. Maybe just throw in a couple of mothballs? Some decades back, a local hifi dealer built a wool-stuffed transmi .......
192: Vinyl Asylum, I have that little system! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-24, 16:28:10 (63.155.86.106)
Little Lepai FM receiver, with a Coby portable CD player and some tiny Advent speakers. Class D amp, so it barely even gets warm. Nice nearfield tabletop setup. .......
193: Critic's Corner, Far better than a narrow specialist! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-24, 16:13:40 (63.155.86.106)
Particularly in academia, specialization often entails learning more and more about less and less, until you know nearly everything about next to nothing. .......
194: General Asylum, It's at least as new as the amplifier! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-24, 15:41:43 (63.155.86.106)
nt .......
195: General Asylum, Jimi always said he was a blues, not rock, guitarist (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-21, 17:17:16 (63.155.86.106)
A really LOUD blues guitarist! .......
196: General Asylum, Because first impressions last! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-21, 15:47:26 (63.155.86.106)
First time you heard a system that REALLY opened up familiar recordings -- revealed details you had previously missed, sounded notably more natural and lifelike -- you'll remember that always, and it .......
197: Isolation Ward, Do they shine brighter after freezing? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-20, 17:21:01 (63.155.86.106)
Or have a different spectral balance? Does freezing some bulbs influence the brightness or spectrum of the unfrozen ones? Should they be frozen in any particular position? Would a cooler full of dry i .......
198: Tweakers' Asylum, If you go with new speakers . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-20, 17:07:31 (63.155.86.106)
. . . consider ones with butyl rubber surrounds! (Or even pleated/treated fabric, though that's mostly a "pro" speaker thing). No more refoaming -- they'll outlive all of us! .......
199: General Asylum, First player - some Rotel model, around 1988. First discs - stack of Brilliant Classics, Laserlights, and ZYX (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-20, 17:02:00 (63.155.86.106)
At two bucks (or less) a hit, those budget discs seemed a good way to start building a classical library. Of course, recording quality was all over the map, since they were licensed from a variety of .......
200: Speaker Asylum, First, ask B&W (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-17, 14:49:42 (63.155.86.106)
They might have a replacement in stock, or at least be able to provide you with specs for the original. Or ask Madisound -- they keep a large library of workable driver substitutions. Specs -- especia .......
201: General Asylum, Bolero = proto-minimalism (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-17, 14:39:28 (63.155.86.106)
Ravel's whole idea was to repeat a theme, without variation, and "develop" it only by expanding the harmony as more and more instruments pile in on each repetition. He was apparently quite surprised b .......
202: Speaker Asylum, Danny is a competent and well-regarded designer (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-17, 13:16:26 (63.155.86.106)
GR has its own forum over at Audio Circle -- see link. Lots of enthusiastic owners and prospective customers alike participate. The OP could ask there about how the speakers sound, making clear his re .......
203: Critic's Corner, Don't see link (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-16, 14:08:35 (63.155.86.106)
nt .......
204: General Asylum, So ring the bells that still can ring (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-14, 16:52:45 (63.155.86.106)
Forget your perfect offering There's a crack in everything That's how the light gets in .......
205: General Asylum, Nice enough melody, but repeated over and over for many verses (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-10, 13:01:35 (63.155.86.106)
Just like anything in the English folk tradition of narrative ballads. Gord was consciously tapping into that tradition -- there were a whole slew of shipwreck (and other disaster) songs from the 18th .......
206: General Asylum, But sales of both are a fraction of what they used to be (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-10, 12:52:50 (63.155.86.106)
Due to the ubiquity of streaming. Which seems to suit the recording industry just fine. No physical media to manufacture, handle, warehouse, ship, track inventory, or process returns from dealers. Pur .......
207: Critic's Corner, Wide baffle fat-boy speakers, horn-loaded or not, do seem to be enjoying a resurgence (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-07, 15:51:05 (63.155.86.106)
Witness the resurrected JBL L100, recent old-style models from KLH, the Andy Jones/Mo-Fi coaxials, new retro models from Wharfedale, Mission UK, etc. And of course Klipsch, Tannoy, and a few others ha .......
208: Critic's Corner, I got one of those reminders . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-03-07, 15:32:22 (63.155.86.106)
. . . several weeks AFTER I renewed, and AFTER they sent me an e-mail acknowledging the renewal. Just threw it in the recycle. With a lot of these publishers, the right hand has no freakin' idea what .......
209: General Asylum, Art Dudley once commented . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-28, 12:56:59 (63.155.86.106)
. . . that folkies typically have wonderful record collections and terrible stereo systems. And then there are MANY musicians who are perfectly content with a cheap system. Good enough to hear the not .......
210: Critic's Corner, That's a nice sounding graph! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-22, 13:49:24 (63.155.86.106)
The fellows at ASR might even approve! The baffle step compensation looks well dialed in, and the slight irregularities above crossover should level out at 15 to 30 degrees off axis. The lift above 8k .......
211: Speaker Asylum, That, plus . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-22, 13:33:03 (63.155.86.106)
. . . set the lowpass crossover frequency on the sub a bit lower than you think it ought to be, then nudge it up very gradually until Goldilocks smiles. Too much overlap with the mains will result in .......
212: General Asylum, Well, that's one of Gordon's sappiest songs (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-17, 12:51:45 (63.155.0.158)
But he mentioned once in an interview, when you're in the middle of a divorce, all the trite cliches come true. But then he wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Early Morning Rain, Sundown, Edmund Fitzger .......
213: Critic's Corner, Similar response, though. What's your crossover? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-16, 13:42:35 (63.155.0.158)
Just from the graph, it looks like a 4th order electrical filter down -6dB at 2.5 to 3kHz would get you a nice 3rd order acoustical rolloff. True ribbons are fragile, and generally need steep filters .......
214: General Asylum, Dallas, TX, 1971 or '72. Pink Floyd was SUPPOSED to open for the Moody Blues . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-16, 13:19:07 (63.155.0.158)
. . . but somebody stole their equipment truck with all their gear. The Moodys graciously played a somewhat longer set than planned. Next time Floyd came to town was in 1973, as headliners on their Da .......
215: General Asylum, We used to have a type 1 in our town (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-15, 13:25:52 (63.155.0.158)
NW Audio Labs, owned by Jim Ott for decades. Closed down when his lease came up for renewal at substantially higher cost, and he was ready to retire anyway. Jim was one of the best repair guys in the .......
216: Critic's Corner, Smooth frequency response and a well-controlled HF rolloff . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-10, 15:56:16 (63.155.0.158)
. . . need not always correspond with more expensive. Back in the day, before Tymphany took over (and IMO ruined) Danish Sound Technologies, Vifa and Peerless offered a number of reasonably priced, ex .......
217: Critic's Corner, When a manufacturer states that "technically perfect speakers sound like crap" . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-10, 14:45:00 (63.155.0.158)
. . . that raises some major red flags, at least for me. Along with many others, I have generally found that the more clean and linear the response, the more the speaker gets out of the way and lets t .......
218: General Asylum, Treble in mind (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-10, 13:24:21 (63.155.0.158)
"Brittle, strident, and harsh" high frequencies may result from several factors, most of which involve not merely exaggerated HF response but audible (and measurable!) HF distortion. This distortion m .......
219: Music Lane, Some plagiarisms are unintentional (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-08, 14:54:16 (63.155.0.158)
Whichever recording came out first, the other artist may have heard it, absorbed it, forgotten about it, and later regurgitated it. My sweet lord -- he's so fine! .......
220: Critic's Corner, In the same issue, at under half the price . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-02-08, 13:34:48 (63.155.0.158)
. . . the KEF LS60 wireless outperforms it in just about EVERY measurable (and audible) parameter. AND it includes built-in amplification, with DSP-based EQ to adjust the bass response for various roo .......
221: General Asylum, NOBODY who invests the time and money to build an anechoic chamber . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-31, 13:14:12 (63.155.0.158)
. . . does so just to get good ad copy in a magazine, while using "the same cheap drivers no matter what." They built it so they could design the most accurate speakers possible at any given price poi .......
222: General Asylum, Answer to #1: Both. To #4: Because they can. To #5: Time marches on. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-30, 16:18:17 (63.155.0.158)
ALL Canadian manufacturers can rent access to the NRC's anechoic chamber, and have done so for many years. It helps them make the best-measuring speakers they can at EVERY price point, from entry-leve .......
223: General Asylum, "Classical is spared" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-27, 12:31:47 (63.155.0.158)
I recall some albums of "computer generated" music in the early 1970s (!) "in the style of" Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. The programmer obviously had to be a musicologist, thoroughly familiar with the .......
224: General Asylum, Since when have real estate developers had ANY regard for nature or history? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-20, 14:47:26 (63.155.0.158)
It's all about profit, everywhere. Slap down another plastic subdivision, cut down all the trees and name the streets after them. .......
225: Critic's Corner, Surprisingly, no comparisons in the review to Tannoy or Fyne (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-20, 14:42:11 (63.155.0.158)
Both of which use concentric drivers with the tweeter centered in a large woofer (Tannoy has used this approach for many decades) and both of which have had models reviewed by Stereophile in the past .......
226: Speaker Asylum, Wonder why the drivers are spaced so far apart (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-19, 14:24:25 (63.155.0.158)
Maybe back then the "less than one wavelength at crossover" principle was not so well understood? I see some real problems with the vertical listening axis on those. Might be difficult to find an axis .......
227: Speaker Asylum, Don't forget the Dynaco A25 (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-18, 12:54:57 (63.155.0.158)
Ran its 10" woofer fullrange, and rolled in the 1.5" tweeter with just a cap and a resistor. Extremely popular and well-regarded design of its era. The SEAS/Madisound A26 (see link) is an updated vers .......
228: General Asylum, "Forces and effects at great distances" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-13, 15:00:03 (63.155.0.158)
Well, we obviously have no control over those. So we work on the things we CAN improve, and try not to get too neurotic about those we can't. .......
229: Speaker Asylum, Smaller Klipsch? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-12, 16:26:02 (63.155.0.158)
The RP-600M (along with some of its Reference Premier series siblings) has gotten good reviews, definitely has the high sensitivity you require, is very reasonably priced ($750/pr), and looks nice IF .......
230: General Asylum, "Enjoyment" is a subjective phenomenon, and not meaningless to those who experience it (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-11, 13:19:08 (63.155.0.158)
"Good," on the other hand, is a value judgment of that which one enjoys ("That was a good meal") and simply indicates one's personal (subjective) enjoyment. Nothing objective or universal about either .......
231: General Asylum, Toole's research at the NRC long preceded his work at Harman, and was not a marketing ploy (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2023-01-10, 16:08:48 (63.155.0.158)
Though it could be considered marketing RESEARCH, for the benefit of the entire Canadian speaker industry. It established the performance criteria that many listeners preferred. Then the Canadian manu .......
232: General Asylum, Many variables besides the system (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-29, 13:12:16 (63.155.0.158)
If I'm in the right receptive/relaxed mood, and I love the music, I can become "immersed" even in mediocre recordings played on a mediocre system. If I'm nervous/stressed/anxious/depressed/whatever, i .......
233: Speaker Asylum, Internal bracing/damping probably matters more than the cabinet material (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-29, 13:01:46 (63.155.0.158)
And those Magico cabinets are MASSIVELY braced inside -- see link. Combine this with constrained layer damping, and they WILL NOT ring. The little Genelec studio monitors that HR reviewed a few months .......
234: Speaker Asylum, Internal back waves modulating the driver cone can be an issue . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-28, 11:35:29 (63.155.0.158)
. . . regardless of cabinet construction or rigidity. Some manufacturers go to extreme lengths to absorb those back waves before they can bounce back to interfere with the cone movement. Think Vivid, .......
235: Speaker Asylum, The wider cabinet . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-27, 12:18:43 (63.155.0.158)
. . . will push the baffle diffraction step slightly lower in frequency and -- if other dimensions remain the same -- allow more internal volume for a lower Q loading of the woofer. Also allows for a .......
236: Speaker Asylum, Have you space to move the speakers forward a foot or so? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-16, 11:54:56 (63.155.24.188)
That might help alleviate some of the diffraction off the screen. Also agree with the others about covering it with a thick blanket. Come to think of it, those being omnis, maybe every surface in the .......
237: Speaker Asylum, Nice work on those! How do they sound? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-16, 11:49:29 (63.155.24.188)
Always happy to see some DIY here. That's an interesting website, with lots of neat projects. Link below. .......
238: General Asylum, Probably, but . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-14, 14:07:30 (63.155.24.188)
. . . after three weeks of such tweaking, I still couldn't get no satisfaction, and went back to 2-channel. The HK actually sounds quite nice in that mode. .......
239: Speaker Asylum, Did that model have a photonic varistor (aka light bulb) in the driver circuit? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-14, 14:02:11 (63.155.24.188)
Some Bose models did, for overload protection. The idea being that as more voltage was input from the amp, the bulb lit brighter and its resistance increased, limiting the voltage reaching the drivers .......
240: General Asylum, I've played with it a bit, found it distracted from rather than enhanced music listening (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-14, 12:04:21 (63.155.24.188)
A friend in the AV repair biz gifted me a while back with a beast of a Harman Kardon 5.1 channel AVR, with more bells and whistles than a circus locomotive and a 78-page (!) manual. So I hooked up a p .......
241: General Asylum, "Gold course"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-08, 14:37:49 (63.155.24.188)
Talk about a Freudian slip! .......
242: General Asylum, Ravel said: (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-07, 12:23:47 (63.155.24.188)
"It's my most popular composition. It's a shame there isn't any music in it." .......
243: General Asylum, Keith Jarrett, Thelonious Monk, many others (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-12-07, 12:21:43 (63.155.24.188)
Instead of whistle while you work, mumble while you play! .......
244: General Asylum, Very true (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-30, 15:08:22 (63.155.24.188)
And don't forget Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue," which starts in Dm and modulates through just about every key, often quite rapidly. It was utterly unique for its time, and much loved by later R .......
245: General Asylum, When I was very young, in the days of mono . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-30, 12:06:22 (63.155.24.188)
. . . Dad had a big kit-built Wharfedale corner horn speaker, driven by a Fisher receiver and Rek-O-Kut turntable. He liked mostly classical -- WQXR was his favorite station (this was in NYC) -- and s .......
246: General Asylum, Key changes in just intonation (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-29, 12:14:00 (63.155.24.188)
Hi John. If you're not already familiar with it, check out Terry Riley's "Harp of New Albion" album. He tunes his piano to just intonation in C, which sounds absolutely wonderful, then modulates throu .......
247: General Asylum, Up through the Baroque era . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-29, 12:07:04 (63.155.24.188)
. . . tunes with binary structures nearly ALWAYS changed key going from the A to the B part. If the A part was in a major key, the B part typically modulated to the dominant major key. If the A part w .......
248: Speaker Asylum, Not having heard them . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-21, 16:27:27 (63.155.24.188)
. . . or any other ceramic cone drivers, I can't really comment on what ceramic "sounds" like. But I've worked with paper, polypropylene, aluminum, and Kevlar drivers over many years of DIY, and don't .......
249: Speaker Asylum, Noted for their exceptional clarity (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-18, 14:39:14 (63.155.24.188)
nt .......
250: Speaker Asylum, Ouch! That's another concern with ceramic drivers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-16, 14:51:15 (63.155.24.188)
Fragile as Grandma's porcelain figurines. .......
251: Speaker Asylum, That's not NEARLY as bad as some SEAS (and other) metal cones (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-16, 12:42:47 (63.155.24.188)
A notch filter would be advisable to knock down that resonant peak at 4kHz. Then, the broad rise from about 300 to 1800Hz needs to be countered. I would consider, offhand, a steep filter, with gradual .......
252: General Asylum, And don't forget "Shakedown Street" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-14, 12:21:18 (63.155.24.188)
Doot - doot -doot. Doot -doo - doodoo - doot. Some fans accused the GD of "selling out" with that one. Mickey Hart replied that they wanted so badly to "sell out" and have a radio hit, but nobody was .......
253: Speaker Asylum, Forgive those bright, shrill, edgy recordings (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-14, 12:15:15 (63.155.24.188)
The mixing/mastering engineers know not what they do. .......
254: Speaker Asylum, How about their diamond dome tweeters? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-14, 12:02:52 (63.155.24.188)
Response out to 100 kHz. Muy espensivo. Useful for communicating with bats. .......
255: General Asylum, Sustained VLFs definitely do so. Percussive VLF "beats" maybe not so much. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-11, 12:24:22 (63.155.24.188)
nt .......
256: Vinyl Asylum, A lot of early stereo recordings were mixed that way too (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-09, 11:23:29 (63.155.24.188)
Extreme right and left positioning of instruments, sometimes with NOTHING in the middle. "Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section" is a particularly socially distanced example: Art's saxophone hard left, .......
257: General Asylum, Thanks for the correction (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-04, 13:07:24 (63.155.24.188)
I wasn't reading either mag back then. I guess TAS offers better pay. Which someone who favors cost-no-object gear would certainly consider. .......
258: Speaker Asylum, The Fleetwood Deville SQ has a back panel made of something similar (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-04, 12:59:09 (63.155.24.188)
See linked review. The rest of the cabinet is made from "torrefied" solid Ash wood, a dense and non-resonant wood favored by Leo Fender for solid guitar bodies, and now used in the plinth of the Fend .......
259: Speaker Asylum, Depends on the crossover slopes' order and Q (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-02, 16:12:33 (63.155.24.188)
What's important is that the drivers sum flat through the crossover region(s) on the design/listening axis. With some crossover types, especially LR2 (12dB/octave, Q=0.5, both drivers -6dB at crossov .......
260: General Asylum, First the 'phile, now TAS (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-02, 15:54:08 (63.155.24.188)
nt .......
261: General Asylum, Psychic dwarf escapes jail! Small medium at large! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-11-01, 12:31:11 (63.155.24.188)
nt .......
262: General Asylum, No, but I would definitely consider Genelec if moving in that direction (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-31, 14:16:30 (63.155.24.188)
See link for rave review by HR, and impeccable suite of measurements by JA. Compact, reasonably priced, and highly adaptable to various room placements with the built in EQ switches. Some of the most .......
263: Vinyl Asylum, LOTS of pop records from that era . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-26, 11:58:24 (63.155.80.23)
. . . were mixed and mastered with attenuated bass and goosed up treble, to sound their best on car radios and kiddy-toy portable record players. At least the 45 RPM singles. Some record companies app .......
264: General Asylum, Only 12 speakers in that setup! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-21, 12:42:33 (63.155.80.23)
Multiple surrounds plus "elevation" speakers. So he certainly doesn't listen in mono, even though he finds that the best way to test speakers. .......
265: General Asylum, Wrong Toole for the job (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-19, 15:34:58 (63.155.80.23)
nt .......
266: Speaker Asylum, Naim would recommend Focal (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-19, 12:34:48 (63.155.80.23)
At least now that they're partner companies under the same ownership. Focal models look nice, and seem to be well liked for their sound. .......
267: Speaker Asylum, Restoration project! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-19, 12:30:51 (63.155.80.23)
I'd snap those up in a New York minute. Woofers can be refoamed/reconed if needed, crossovers can be renovated with better parts of same values, grills can be restored with new cloth, and cabinets can .......
268: Vinyl Asylum, Or Ocean Grown (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-18, 13:04:19 (63.155.80.23)
Applied to Cannabis strains that were first developed in coastal California. .......
269: General Asylum, "I wish I were single again, again . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-12, 11:37:17 (63.155.80.23)
. . . I wish I were single again For if I were single, me pockets would jingle I wish I were single again!" --English folk song .......
270: Critic's Corner, Vintage style with modern updates? Gasp . . . shudder . . . horrors! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-11, 15:06:02 (63.155.80.23)
Might as well knock the new "classic" style speakers by KLH, Wharfedale, Misson, Monitor, Falcon, Harbeth, Spendor, PSB, JBL, Klipsch, etc. Or the new Garrard and Thorens turntables. Because they hear .......
271: Critic's Corner, Not that similar (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-10-11, 11:53:11 (63.155.80.23)
Overall proportions, maybe, but the Estelons are far more "curvaceous" than the clean, industrial lines of the tall YGA models. Ostensibly to reduce baffle diffraction effects, as confirmed by JA's me .......
272: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, If a tweeter has higher sensitivity than the midrange driver it is used with . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-30, 12:13:25 (209.180.234.116)
. . . it will play too loud and sound excessively bright or shrill. Therefore its output needs to be attenuated to match that of the midrange. This is commonly done with a voltage divider or "L-pad" c .......
273: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, "Padding down" with an L-pad (fixed or rotary) or a series resistor (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-28, 12:35:36 (209.180.234.116)
I prefer the rotary type attenuator because it lets you reduce the tweeter's output level to the precise degree needed, while maintaining a flat impedance for the high pass filter to see. .......
274: General Asylum, I feel fortunate (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-28, 12:08:23 (209.180.234.116)
In many years of participating in song circles and oldtime/Irish fiddle jams, and playing with my own Renaissance/Celtic band, I have become thoroughly familiar with the live, unamplified, up-close so .......
275: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Single "fullrnge" drivers often lack high frequency extension (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-27, 15:26:04 (209.180.234.116)
Many start rolling off above 10 or 12 kHz. That deficiency in the upper treble can easily be heard as "polite." The good ones can nonetheless sound wonderful in the midrange -- as you say, very "natur .......
276: Jazz Alley, I'd rather listen to Nina Simone any day (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-16, 16:49:22 (209.180.234.116)
nt .......
277: Speaker Asylum, "CD-ready" speakers were a thing back then (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-16, 14:39:27 (209.180.234.116)
Largely a marketing thing, but also a response to the extreme dynamic range of a very few notorious CD titles. The cannon shots on the Telarc 1812 Overture destroyed so many speakers that many hi-fi s .......
278: General Asylum, And can be achieved in various ways. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-13, 12:26:41 (209.180.234.116)
Carver "Sonic Holography" Polk "Stereo Dimensional Array" speakers. Back on the market. Placing a central barrier between the speakers and extending it out to the listener's nose. (Yes, that's been do .......
279: Speaker Asylum, All good points. That's why people need to understand speaker impedance as well as sensitivity. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-13, 12:13:56 (209.180.234.116)
We've all seen reviews of nominally "8 Ohm" speakers that dip below 3 or 4 Ohms at low frequencies, often accompanied by a wicked phase angle. A low-powered SET amp would crap its pants trying to driv .......
280: Speaker Asylum, Sure, but it's MUCH more enjoyable! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-12, 15:51:17 (209.180.234.116)
nt .......
281: Speaker Asylum, Whose reality? Every room is different. Therefore there has to be a uniform standard. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-12, 15:33:49 (209.180.234.116)
2.83V input, measured at 1M anechoic or quasi-anechoic IS that standard. From that information you can use modeling software to extrapolate response in ANY position in ANY room, provided room dimensio .......
282: Speaker Asylum, How about just using mono recordings of actual music? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-08, 15:53:25 (209.180.234.116)
Anything from a small folk, chamber music, or jazz ensemble to a big orchestra. Do ALL the instruments and voices sound like they're coming from a narrow center point between the speakers, do some fre .......
283: General Asylum, Or hearing the difference between gold and rhodium plating on connectors! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-07, 17:57:55 (209.180.234.116)
Yes, some folks actually claim that ability. Princess-and-pea level phenomenon. See recent thread in Cables. .......
284: Speaker Asylum, Might be interesting to apply these same parameters to tweeters (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-07, 17:52:15 (209.180.234.116)
In the agility trials, I'd bet on planars/ribbons/AMTs, with their very low moving mass and strong magnet systems, to run circles around any dome out there! .......
285: Cable Asylum, Copper and silver corrode. Rhodium and gold don't (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-01, 15:53:35 (63.155.22.188)
nt .......
286: Cable Asylum, Tinned copper is normal, to indicate polarity. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-01, 15:51:20 (63.155.22.188)
Strip back some insulation and sand down the silver-colored conductor. I bet anything it's copper under the tinning. Then, copper color goes to (+) terminals and silver color goes to (-). I definitely .......
287: Speaker Asylum, Attn John Marks: Re Load Factor and Agility Factor (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-09-01, 15:44:37 (63.155.22.188)
Hi John: I just read your article at Positive Feedback proposing a couple of additions to the TS parameters when evaluating speaker drivers, and have a few questions regarding the system design implic .......
288: General Asylum, And how is that different from the impact of LPs? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-31, 14:33:12 (63.155.22.188)
Method 1: Both are physical media, with all the same stages of manufacture, assembly, shipping, inventory maintenance (all of which employ people), and ultimate non-recyclability. Both are sold to end .......
289: General Asylum, Squinting, as at a tiny i-phone screen (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-31, 11:58:48 (63.155.22.188)
OK, you've got a big monitor screen, so no problem. But I see all the young folks walking around, thumbing the buttons, mesmerized by their tiny screens, completely locked into their artificial realit .......
290: General Asylum, Luddite geezer here, perfectly happy with my large CD and vinyl collection (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-30, 18:18:10 (63.155.22.188)
And of course with my midline Yamaha CDP and vintage AR turntable to play them. Don't want ANYTHING in my system that requires an external computer, apps for a phone, or connection to the internet. I' .......
291: Jazz Alley, Earl Klugh Trio, volumes I & II (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-24, 15:38:38 (63.155.22.188)
Just nylon-string acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and drums. All standards, beautifully played. No commercial pop-jazz flavorings, just straight ahead jazz. Out of print, find 'em if you can. ::: TOPI .......
292: Speaker Asylum, You'd have to spend 3 or 4 times that for a condo big enough for those speakers! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-23, 15:34:54 (63.155.22.188)
Might be better off buying a medium-sized church or theater, for best sound. .......
293: General Asylum, The definitive compendium of banjo jokes (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-22, 17:44:35 (63.155.12.84)
See linky. .......
294: General Asylum, SHOULD be recorded that way! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-22, 14:52:27 (63.155.12.84)
Without any dynamic compression, limiting, or EQ-softening of the high frequencies. Nor should they be exaggerated in the highs -- those instruments have plenty of sharp transients naturally. If a ban .......
295: General Asylum, Classical string recordings sometimes sound too bright because . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-19, 12:25:51 (63.155.12.84)
. . . of microphone placement. Microphones are often suspended OVER the string section of an orchestra, so they catch the full "on axis" response of the violins, which is directed upwards. The audienc .......
296: Critic's Corner, A nasty job, but someone has to do it (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-16, 12:13:38 (63.155.12.84)
Reviewing the ultra-high end, that is. Fremer did it for analog, while SVS covers solid state (mostly) and digital. Both have big, current-hungry Willies for speakers, which cannot be driven by less t .......
297: Speaker Asylum, Protective tweeter grills should be standard equipment (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-16, 11:41:21 (63.155.12.84)
They usually are for metal domes, which if dented are irreparable. Those on the gold Audax tweets in the Lore are minimal, but offer some protection. And then there are those pictured, which will .......
298: General Asylum, They rock! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-15, 17:52:30 (63.155.12.84)
nt .......
299: General Asylum, Collyer brothers go audiophile? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-15, 17:51:40 (63.155.12.84)
And wouldn't you hate to be the maid that has to dust all that stuff? .......
300: Speaker Asylum, Other shots: Darth Vader/Dalek hybrid? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-15, 14:59:04 (63.155.12.84)
nt .......
301: Critic's Corner, Herb Reichert/ Wired for Bankruptcy (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-03, 14:42:16 (63.155.12.84)
$62K for some stinkin' WIRE? Yeah, maybe Herb can hear an improvement over cheaper cables (he damn well better!), but with his favored gear, wouldn't you bet that kind of money could buy him a much bi .......
302: General Asylum, Parts express has replacement woofers for Mach One (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-08-01, 11:49:05 (63.155.12.84)
See link. .......
303: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Hypothetically eliminates a potential source of RFI (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-29, 15:00:18 (63.155.12.84)
Or at least Yamaha engineers think it might. My Yammy CD player has the same feature. .......
304: Speaker Asylum, Short coil, long gap (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-25, 11:33:07 (63.155.12.84)
A good idea, as it keeps the coil within the magnetic field even at high excursions. George Short of North Creek was a big proponent of this approach, and favored Scan Speak woofers which used it. ::: .......
305: General Asylum, Above 14kHz . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-20, 16:40:56 (63.155.12.84)
. . . there aren't really any fundamentals. But harmonics, air, sparkle, shimmer, and directional cues, yes. At 70, I definitely feel I'm missing more of that than I used to. But cranking up the trebl .......
306: Speaker Asylum, Sweet! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-20, 16:24:44 (63.155.12.84)
If those sound anywhere near as nice as they look, they must sound awesome! So, what ARE those drivers (make and model)? Anything you care to disclose about crossover frequency and slopes? Will you, a .......
307: General Asylum, Was Lenny Bernstein a "strict classical guy"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-19, 16:31:03 (63.155.12.84)
Because he liked the Beatles from the outset. Compared them to Schubert, and thought they were the best songwriters since Gershwin. .......
308: General Asylum, Actually, Panzer is short for . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-13, 17:48:02 (63.155.12.84)
. . . Panzerkampfwagen (German for "armored fighting vehicle) "Tank" in Deutsch means the same as in English, a container for liquids. A water tank is "Wassertank." A tanker ship is "Tankschiff," and .......
309: Speaker Asylum, Naim says Focal (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-12, 12:05:19 (63.155.12.84)
Both companies are now owned by Vervent, and their products are being marketed together. So THEY think it's a nice match, anyway. .......
310: General Asylum, The popular music industry, like commercial TV . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-11, 17:39:11 (63.155.12.84)
. . . has long been about pandering to the lowest common denominator of popular taste. Americans love their popular trash culture, and the more vulgar, depraved, violent, and imbecilic it is, the bett .......
311: Speaker Asylum, Look at Parts Express for "marine" speakers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-07-05, 16:17:24 (63.155.12.84)
These are intended for use in boats, and are thoroughly waterproof. Most of what they have are raw drivers, so you'd need to make weatherproof enclosures for them. Think heavy plastic paint buckets (1 .......
312: Speaker Asylum, They may sound "stunning" even in that room . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-28, 14:00:04 (63.155.12.84)
. . . but think how much better they could sound there with absorbtive panels on the walls, heavy drapes over all that glass, some overstuffed fabric-upholstered chairs and couches, and a big thick sh .......
313: Speaker Asylum, Speakers are voltage-driven devices (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-27, 16:21:43 (63.155.12.84)
So 2.83V at 1M SHOULD produce the same reference output in dB at any frequency, regardless of the speaker's nominal impedance or frequency-correlated variations therein. PROVIDING, that is, the amplif .......
314: Speaker Asylum, Omnidirectionals are SO wrong for that room (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-27, 14:43:00 (63.155.12.84)
He'd be better off with some nice horn speakers that beam like lasers, toed in to reduce wall reflections. .......
315: Speaker Asylum, Which does not necessarily correlate with cost (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-27, 14:31:59 (63.155.12.84)
Some truly excellent, moderately priced drivers from the likes of Vifa, Peerless, SEAS, SB Acoustics, Focal (NLA), Audax and others have found their way into many a wonderful-sounding system over the .......
316: Speaker Asylum, But you ain't gonna fit THOSE big speakers in a car! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-22, 15:46:18 (63.155.12.84)
nt .......
317: General Asylum, Well, A-432 WAS a standard tuning well into the 19th century (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-22, 15:43:51 (63.155.12.84)
All mystical/conspiratorial nonsense aside, singers preferred it because it puts less strain on their voices. String players prefer it because the slightly relaxed tension makes the strings a little e .......
318: Amp/Preamp Asylum, People who CAN discern the difference . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-21, 16:09:28 (63.155.12.84)
. . . reliably and repeatedly, tend to be brass players and percussionists. And they tend to identify the phenomenon most frequently with good recordings of their favored instruments. I believe there .......
319: Speaker Asylum, Both the 8 and 2 Ohm versions claim 98dB sensitivity (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-21, 16:03:02 (63.155.12.84)
Inflated, no doubt. But WHY would anyone choose the current-voracious 2 Ohm version? Because they already have a D'Agostino or Dartzeel high current amp that needs a challenge? With that kind of sensi .......
320: Amp/Preamp Asylum, The positive (attack) phase is more jagged and energetic, and the "restorative" phase is slower and rounder. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-21, 13:07:41 (63.155.12.84)
Interesting. I wonder how this relates to: 1) Sonus Faber likes to put all series reactive components on the negative leg of their crossover filters. 2) A recently reviewed Dynaudio 3-way speaker had .......
321: Speaker Asylum, It was kind of proprietary (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-06-14, 17:12:20 (63.155.12.84)
The servo loop used an accelerometer attached to the driver cone, which fed back what the woofer was actually doing to a comparator circuit, which adjusted the output of the amplifier on-the-fly to co .......
322: Speaker Asylum, Some midrange quality descriptors (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-27, 14:57:19 (63.155.12.84)
It's tricky because the middle range of music (where the ear is most sensitive) itself falls into low, mid, and high ranges, and at either end (in a 3-way system) is influenced by the crossover to the .......
323: Vinyl Asylum, The Mick Taylor years: their best period IMO (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-17, 12:41:04 (63.155.12.84)
He brought a whole new level of technique, innovation, and musicality to the mix. Brian Jones was good, Ronnie Wood was (is) a solid roots rocker, but Taylor was at a whole 'nother level. He quit, app .......
324: Speaker Asylum, Wide baffle and BSC (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-11, 12:55:08 (63.155.12.84)
With a large woofer/wide box "monkey coffin," the baffle step is still a thing, but compensation can be incorporated into the woofer-to-mid crossover. Say you have a 12" woofer in a 15" wide box. Your .......
325: Speaker Asylum, Yes! I've done this. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-11, 12:29:43 (63.155.12.84)
I have LOTS of CDs of pre-1958 (and hence "mono") jazz and classical recordings, where the left and right channels contain identical information. My stereo speakers throw a narrow, stable phantom cent .......
326: Speaker Asylum, Yes, higher distortion too (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-09, 14:51:44 (63.155.12.84)
Especially if pushed close to X-max. Bottom line is, you have to push 4x as much air to achieve the same SPL for each octave you go down in frequency. With a small woofer, that means quadrupling linea .......
327: Speaker Asylum, Laws of physics (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-09, 13:04:23 (63.155.12.84)
90dB seems to be the maximum sensitivity achievable by most cone midbass drivers and dome tweeters on an IEC baffle. Most are a few dB less. Use a 90 dB-rated woofer in a real enclosure with narrow ba .......
328: Critic's Corner, Well, I generally approve of "quirky" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-06, 12:18:15 (63.155.12.84)
It's always refreshing to see designers try something a bit different from the boring norm, and gratifying when the results sound and measure well. Other recent examples include granite cabinets, inte .......
329: Critic's Corner, A better comparison . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-05-04, 17:46:38 (63.155.12.84)
. . . might be the JBLs and the Klipschorns that Art Dudley reviewed in 2019. Both are BIG vintage-style butt-thumpers, from long established companies, at identical price points. As JA's measurements .......
330: General Asylum, Nah. He's 50, with degrees in math, physics, and economics. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-29, 16:48:39 (63.155.12.84)
Went to college a bit before the great dumbing-down really kicked in, and ADHD became the norm. Probably even has an attention span longer than the 39 seconds of today's freshmen. .......
331: General Asylum, RE: Stereo Systems were for the 'Masses' in the 60s and 70s ................. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-29, 16:09:59 (63.155.12.84)
When I lived in the dorms, all the rich boys had great stereo systems and the rest of us aspired to owning such some day. Nowadays, the kids "listen" (do they really even have the attention span for t .......
332: General Asylum, Audio gear exists to be measured, not listened to! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-29, 15:44:24 (63.155.12.84)
That, in a nutshell, seems to be the ASR premise. Nobody over there seems to have the slightest interest in MUSIC. They seem to take pride in NOT listening to the equipment they test, and anyone who s .......
333: General Asylum, And why are SO MANY systems depicted in sonically horrible habitats in promo photos? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-28, 16:57:24 (63.155.12.84)
Just flip through the ads in any audio magazine. Speakers poorly placed in "elegant" rooms with hard, bright, shiny, reflective surfaces everywhere. Is there that much of a disconnect between engineer .......
334: General Asylum, Isn't Atmos aimed more at the HT crowd than audiophiles? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-26, 15:00:05 (63.155.12.84)
From all I've read, it seems to be mainly about sound effect trickery -- jets zooming overhead, gunshots ricocheting around the room, etc. Seems like all those additional channels of reflected sound w .......
335: Vinyl Asylum, Transfigured Night is the apotheosis of German high-romantic slush and bombast (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-25, 16:15:35 (63.155.12.84)
Shortly afterwards, Schoenberg turned away from any sort of emotional expression to embrace 12-tone serialism, a completely abstract, mathematical system of composition which rejected all previous not .......
336: General Asylum, I would think the opposite (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-22, 12:18:58 (63.155.12.84)
Consider a 5" to 7" midwoofer with limited throw, driven to its excursion limits at the bottom of its range to achieve its maximum SPL. A longer throw driver of the same diameter will remain well with .......
337: General Asylum, They have Rogaine for that (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-15, 16:03:24 (63.155.12.84)
nt .......
338: General Asylum, MIT Scientists Develop New Regenerative Drug That Reverses Hearing Loss (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-15, 12:53:19 (63.155.12.84)
That's the title. Full article at link. The drug apparently stimulates the re-growth of cochlear hair cells. Tests are ongoing, and they're recruiting volunteer guinea pigs. Hopefully some older audio .......
339: General Asylum, Ideal for listening to Smurf music (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-15, 12:34:19 (63.155.12.84)
Sorry, couldn't resist. .......
340: General Asylum, Performer reactions to audience noise (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-13, 13:10:41 (63.155.12.84)
Some quite amusing stories at the link. Glenn Gould, who finally gave up on live performance altogether, has some especially acerbic comments. .......
341: General Asylum, A fair number of recordings have been made that way (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-13, 12:57:30 (63.155.12.84)
Most of the Mercury Living Presence sessions, IIRC, were recorded "live" in good-sounding venues (Eastman Hall, Troy Savings Bank Hall, etc.) without audience. The sound would undoubtedly be more reso .......
342: Speaker Asylum, Alas, 16 Ohm drivers are rarer than hen's teeth anymore (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-13, 12:46:22 (63.155.12.84)
Madisound had some 16 Ohm, 6.5" Silver Flute woofers awhile back, but they sold out while I was still sketching out cabinet and crossover ideas for them. I honestly don't know of any others that are r .......
343: Speaker Asylum, Linkwitz Labs used this approach (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-12, 15:22:14 (63.155.12.84)
The Orion kit involved an outboard analog crossover/EQ, to be used with the recommended 8-channel amp, or with the owner's choice of amplifiers. There are a few 3-channel amps on the market, if you wa .......
344: Speaker Asylum, Not necessarily, as long as they're the same sensitivity, but I think they're identical (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-12, 12:50:07 (63.155.12.84)
JA's measurements, linked below, show an impedance minimum of 3 Ohms around 120 Hz, and a broad band slightly above 4 Ohms from 300 to 700 Hz. This is consistent with three nominal 8 Ohm woofers rolle .......
345: Speaker Asylum, Consider the PSB T600 tower: a 3.5.5 way! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-11, 12:09:26 (63.155.12.84)
Topmost woofer crosses to the midrange. Middle woofer fills in the baffle diffraction loss. Bottom one supplements the other two at the very lowest frequencies, increasing bass extension a bit. A cle .......
346: Speaker Asylum, Great info, Dave! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-08, 12:45:58 (63.155.12.84)
All I can add is that because this is a 10" woofer, one should probably cross it as low as possible. You figure a center-to-center distance of about 7 inches with the tweeter mounted as close as possi .......
347: Speaker Asylum, Bad link - sorry. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-06, 12:58:12 (63.155.12.84)
Just do a search for Dynaudio D28AF. The first hit will be for diy.loudspeakers and you can download the PDF spec sheet from there. .......
348: Speaker Asylum, D28AF specs (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-06, 12:52:45 (63.155.12.84)
PDF downloadable from this site. .......
349: Speaker Asylum, 24w100 specs (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-06, 12:42:49 (63.155.12.84)
Linked. No graphs, unfortunately. .......
350: Speaker Asylum, Might ask Madisound (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-04-05, 12:10:27 (63.155.12.84)
It's been many years, but they used to carry a good range of Dynaudio drivers and had several kit plans. They may also have archived specs for those drivers -- so might I, in their old catalogs I've k .......
351: General Asylum, Agreed. It does show that many listeners prefer technically "accurate" speakers. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-03-30, 16:52:28 (63.155.84.40)
"Accurate" in terms of wide frequency range, flat frequency response on-axis, no huge dips or flares in the off-axis, and low non-linear distortion (such as that caused by driver breakup or buzzy boxe .......
352: Critic's Corner, I miss Lirpa Labs (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-03-21, 15:30:56 (63.155.84.40)
Those reviews were always a highlight of the old Audio magazine. Of course, there are now actual (and very expensive) audio "products" on the market which totally outdo anything from Lirpa in sheer pr .......
353: Critic's Corner, So, boycott Sovtek and Svetlana tubes? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-03-09, 11:45:36 (63.155.84.40)
nt .......
354: Critic's Corner, Another obvious comparison . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-02-23, 15:50:28 (63.155.84.40)
. . . for any coaxial 2-way standmount would be the KEF LS50-Meta. At $1500/pr, less costly than either the Mayfly or the Trenner & Friedl. Approximately same frequency range as the latter (doesn't go .......
355: General Asylum, We don't have human translators or proofreaders any more (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-02-16, 11:46:18 (63.155.84.40)
We have apps for that! Let the software do it all. Nobody needs to know how to do anything anymore. Fun exercise: Using Google Translate (or any other translation software), type in a few sentences in .......
356: General Asylum, Hmm. I recall a song of theirs called "Clash City Rockers" (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-02-11, 13:19:44 (63.155.84.40)
nt .......
357: General Asylum, Maybe not, but they can still be music lovers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-02-11, 11:30:52 (63.155.84.40)
And might actually get more enjoyment out of their favorite tunes than those of us who spend endless hours/dollars pursuing that elusive "absolute sound." .......
358: Critic's Corner, If it ain't broke, don't fix it (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-02-07, 13:47:50 (63.155.84.40)
There are still a fair number of "retro" products which remain popular. I'm thinking Klipsch Heritage Line speakers, tube amplifiers (especially SET), reissued Garrard and Thorens turntables. Put thos .......
359: General Asylum, A solution in search of a problem? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-28, 11:39:50 (63.155.84.40)
nt .......
360: Propeller Head Plaza, I've noticed the same phenomenon with parked cars (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-24, 15:03:18 (63.155.84.40)
You'll often see maybe 4 or 5 red ones next to each other, then 3 or 4 silvery-grey ones, a half dozen white ones, a few black ones, etc. Is this due to some natural attraction of like to like? ::: TO .......
361: General Asylum, Just curious -- how does it work with mono recordings? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-17, 15:45:18 (63.155.84.40)
Because most everything recorded before 1958 was released in mono, with both "stereo" channels identical. If you send the antiphase signal of each channel to the opposite channel, wouldn't this result .......
362: General Asylum, Speaking as a musician . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-14, 15:51:42 (63.155.84.40)
. . . I would have to say that UNDERSTANDING music on the technical level (scales, harmony, counterpoint, time signatures, etc.) is crucial to my enjoyment. When checking out an unfamiliar piece, I li .......
363: General Asylum, Sonic Holography goes digital! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-14, 15:19:18 (63.155.84.40)
Remember the old Bob Carver circuit included in some of his amps? That sent the antiphase inversion of each channel to the opposite channel to cancel crosstalk and expand the soundstage, all in the an .......
364: Speaker Asylum, Third one down looks like Vivid Giya joined the Klan (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2022-01-03, 14:47:00 (63.155.84.40)
nt .......
365: Critic's Corner, Malachi Lui? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-22, 11:24:08 (63.155.84.40)
Fremer's young protege. He likes horrible music, but seems fairly knowledgeable about turntables. .......
366: General Asylum, NOTHING is 100% pure and exact! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-21, 15:22:48 (63.155.84.40)
That of course is the ideal -- "straight wire with gain" -- but it is unattainable because EVERYTHING that a signal passes through alters it to SOME measurable degree, however tiny. Distortions, both .......
367: General Asylum, Bring on the bling! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-21, 12:14:01 (63.155.84.40)
Kinda garish, really. You can't HEAR all that glitz and glitter, and the added weight would reduce the comfort factor. Focal makes nice headphones, but I'd settle for the standard model. .......
368: Speaker Asylum, That looks like a VERY nice project! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-21, 12:01:08 (63.155.84.40)
Excellent drivers. Sweet looking design. Fairly complex crossover, from the parts list. Doesn't look too hard to build, if you have a reasonable wood shop. And reasonably priced -- comparable to the b .......
369: Speaker Asylum, Those are commonly used crossover points, BUT . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-17, 15:58:48 (63.155.9.67)
. . . 300 Hz falls in the midst of the baritone, tenor, and alto vocal ranges. The woofer and midrange drivers must have very similar sonic characteristics, and the phase tracking through the crossove .......
370: General Asylum, For you objectivist/skeptic types, have a rational secular solstice (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-17, 11:57:56 (63.155.9.67)
Sigh. Doesn't that sound dreary? .......
371: General Asylum, That's if you want to buy it. You get to play with everything for free! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-10, 13:49:05 (63.155.84.104)
nt .......
372: Speaker Asylum, If the purpose is to simulate a point source . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-07, 12:34:29 (63.155.12.7)
. . . why not just use a coaxial mid/tweet unit? Seems like a much simpler and more effective solution than these multi-driver arrays. Not exactly a new concept. Tannoy pioneered it way back when, and .......
373: Speaker Asylum, Raises an interesting question (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-07, 11:50:21 (63.155.12.7)
If Tekton's patent applies only in the USA, then the Kraut speakers may have no problem if sold only in Europe. BUT if somebody starts importing them into the USA, then what? .......
374: Speaker Asylum, Yes (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-06, 15:42:54 (63.155.27.71)
See link. Granted to Eric Alexander of Tekton on October 13, 2020. Your ham sandwich involved previously available technology, already in the public domain. Someone DID, however, patent individual ser .......
375: Critic's Corner, Excellent resonance damping/isolating device (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-06, 12:52:40 (63.155.27.71)
I've been getting those in the mail for several years now. The thick mineral-filled paper and heavy ink and varnish make them really dense. They work nicely between speakers and stand tops, or on top .......
376: General Asylum, Brick houses with concrete floors don't have those problems (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-06, 12:47:55 (63.155.27.71)
Not that that helps the OP any . . . .......
377: General Asylum, Reminds me of the first time I rebuilt a carburator (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-06, 12:44:47 (63.155.27.71)
The rebuild kit had fairly good instructions and diagrams for replacing the essential (small) parts. Spread everything out on newspaper on the kitchen table, got it all apart, got it all together, had .......
378: Speaker Asylum, Maybe just different enough from Tekton to avoid patent infringement? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-06, 12:33:17 (63.155.27.71)
In Tekton's speakers, the central tweeter appears to be identical to the surrounding array of six. I would assume they are robust tweeters with low Fs to begin with, and the midrange array are wired i .......
379: Speaker Asylum, Removable absorbtion behind sofa? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-03, 11:35:00 (63.155.83.12)
Maybe you can't put anything permanent there, but you might try hanging a big fluffy cushion or similar from the wall directly behind your head while you listen, then take it down the rest of the time .......
380: General Asylum, Actually have to agree with your parents about Zep (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-01, 14:23:52 (63.155.9.117)
Never could listen to 'em for very long, even as a teenager. A brilliant band instrumentally, but Robert Plant's over-the-top horny howling always put me off. .......
381: General Asylum, Joni had something snarky to say about almost everyone (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-12-01, 11:30:32 (63.155.9.117)
Check out the "Reckless Daughter" biography. She could really be quite funny. .......
382: General Asylum, I didn't say you said it was, just acknowledged that you spotted the references. Thanks for spotting them. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-30, 15:19:36 (63.155.6.253)
Remember T.S. Eliot: "Bad poets borrow, good poets steal." One can have no end of fun tracing the allusions in writers like Eliot, James Joyce, and definitely Bob Dylan. Blue Oyster Cult lifted the en .......
383: General Asylum, Allusion is not plagiarism (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-30, 11:40:25 (63.155.6.253)
Mr. D knows his Old Testament (along with much of Western literature and folklore) well, and expects the more literate of his listeners to catch the references. .......
384: Speaker Asylum, Not to mention, frighteningly delicate and fragile (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-30, 11:27:02 (63.155.6.253)
AND they need to run off the secondary winding of a transformer, so as not to present a dead short to the amplifier. (The primary winding should have a DCR of at least 4 Ohms). AND they require a stee .......
385: General Asylum, Too many things, mostly for the worse (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-29, 15:49:13 (63.155.6.253)
Most of today's youth-oriented music is utter crap (always has been, we just remember the better stuff), and horribly recorded. Everything is digitally manipulated, pitch-corrected, compressed, and pr .......
386: General Asylum, Good cover bands generally earn a steady living (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-29, 13:58:35 (63.155.6.253)
Up-and-coming original bands, somewhat less so. Because the general PUB-lic want to hear the same familiar tunes they've loved for years, not challenge themselves listening to something new. "Hey DUD .......
387: Critic's Corner, Those are advantages, for sure (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-17, 11:25:19 (63.155.0.47)
A single inexpensive streamer like yours, and a subscription to only one music provider, would not be near as bad as the kind of complicated glitchy networks of multiple boxes so favored by SVS and ot .......
388: General Asylum, Caught 'em in Dallas TX, 1971 (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-16, 13:58:24 (63.155.0.47)
Pink Floyd was supposed to open, but somebody stole their equipment truck with all their gear. Moodys wound up playing a bit longer than usual, and were excellent. .......
389: Critic's Corner, And in the same issue, both Fremer and Reichert . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-15, 12:57:32 (63.155.0.47)
. . . go deeply into the complexities of TT/cartridge setup. You've got vertical tracking angle, vertical tracking force, stylus rake angle, tangency, azimuth, stylus overhang, zeta, anti-skate, and w .......
390: Speaker Asylum, If you're used to horn dynamics, sensitivity, and low distortion . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-15, 12:21:21 (63.155.0.47)
. . . other types may disappoint. Conventional box and planar designs may have flatter frequency response and more coherent phase/time behavior between drivers, but they just can't get that "jump fact .......
391: Speaker Asylum, Paul Klipsch gleefully gloated that he had sold thousands of pairs to churches. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-12, 15:36:09 (63.155.142.28)
nt .......
392: General Asylum, Expectation bias (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-05, 11:55:28 (63.155.20.70)
If you believe you will hear an improvement from fancy wires, you WILL hear an improvement. If you are a skeptic, who doesn't think wires can make much difference, you probably WON'T hear much differ .......
393: General Asylum, No, no, no. You'd have to do a DEAF test for video! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-11-03, 11:39:11 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
394: Critic's Corner, Interesting. Perhaps they over-tension the diaphragm at the factory . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-29, 13:53:14 (63.155.20.70)
. . . knowing that it will stretch out a bit before stabilizing? Planars don't really have a "suspension" (spider + surround) like dynamic drivers, but it makes sense that they could limber up a bit w .......
395: Tweakers' Asylum, Caps add in parallel (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-26, 15:24:04 (63.155.20.70)
Final value is the sum of the stack. Bypassing just means adding a smaller value of poly to a larger (usually electrolytic) cap. .......
396: Critic's Corner, Plenty of documentation on speaker break-in (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-25, 13:11:02 (63.155.20.70)
Danny at GR Research did the science and took the measurements -- see link. Typically, over an extended period of burn-in, a woofer's Fs will drop a couple of Hz, Qts drops a bit, and Vas increases a .......
397: Amp/Preamp Asylum, .22 caliber long shells also work well (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-22, 12:54:20 (63.155.20.70)
As one Darwin Award recipient learned when he used one in the fuse box under his dashboard, to replace a headlight fuse that kept blowing. .......
398: General Asylum, Yeah, but the blues would NEVER have become so popular with young white fans . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-22, 12:24:22 (63.155.20.70)
. . . if it hadn't been championed and promoted in the mid-1960s by young white (and mostly Brit) musicians like Mayall, the Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Zep, etc. The middle-aged Chicago masters at .......
399: General Asylum, Personal jerkdom and talent are two different things (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-15, 12:32:03 (63.155.20.70)
A guy can be a superb musician and still be an a-hole. Many have been and many are and will continue to be. Another guy can be a truly fine human being with no talent whatsoever. My gripe with Clapton .......
400: Speaker Asylum, Depends mainly on midrange/tweeter spacing (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-11, 15:59:40 (63.155.20.70)
Those drivers should ideally be mounted as close together as possible, to simulate a point source. Coaxial is nearly ideal. In a vertical array, less than one wavelength separation at crossover freque .......
401: Vinyl Asylum, Do you use them all, or just store them? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-06, 12:10:16 (63.155.20.70)
If you rotate each one into the system on a regular basis, to enjoy the sonic differences, that's collecting. If you don't use them all, but keep them out in glass display cases to be admired, that's .......
402: General Asylum, Back in the '80s, cocaine was God's way of telling you you made too much money (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-06, 12:02:26 (63.155.20.70)
Now I guess it's equipment like this. Even the hardest-core snowbird would take awhile to snort the cost of that turntable! .......
403: Vinyl Asylum, He doesn't have to sell too many of 'em . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-04, 15:35:37 (63.155.20.70)
To pay off his R&D, tooling, and factory overhead. This does NOT look like a mass-produced item! It is a custom, bespoke product, probably individually assembled by hand. But if he only makes/sells a .......
404: General Asylum, Saw 'em in '76 at U of OR MU Ballroom (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-10-01, 15:23:31 (63.155.20.70)
They played well, put on a fun show. Did a lot of their own stuff (of course), some country standards, and inevitably closed with "Hot Rod Lincoln." What leaves a bad taste was that Ramblin' Jack Elli .......
405: General Asylum, Is "output to speakers" highpassed, or just signal through? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-09-27, 16:05:16 (63.155.20.70)
If the former, it probably just puts a crappy electrolytic cap in series with each speaker. That means your highpass corner frequency will vary widely depending on the impedance of your chosen speaker .......
406: Critic's Corner, Here's the link to JA's review (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-09-24, 14:00:38 (63.155.20.70)
Note that he finds a few minor issues, but the measurements are basically impeccable. The aluminum cabinets are not all that "ringy" except for a couple of high-Q modes he found between 600 and 800 Hz .......
407: General Asylum, When CDs were new, the propaganda that they were inherently superior to vinyl (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-09-21, 13:59:10 (63.155.20.70)
Started replacing a fair portion of my collection around 1987 or so, until I realized that recordings that sounded dull, murky, and confused on LP (like most on the late 1970s Island Records label) so .......
408: Speaker Asylum, Works fine for me (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-09-21, 13:43:32 (63.155.20.70)
But then the sort of movies I like are mostly talk (or music) anyway. Not at all interested in gunfight/fighter plane/car chase "action" crap. I've tried some surround setups and found them annoying a .......
409: Critic's Corner, Chinese quality -- highly variable (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-09-08, 12:31:40 (63.155.20.70)
Some western and Japanese companies who contract production out to Chinese facilities are quite stringent about quality control, and keep their own engineers on-site to ride herd on the Chinese manage .......
410: Speaker Asylum, MTMs should ALWAYS be vertical (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-30, 15:39:20 (63.155.20.70)
This way they have wide and even horizontal dispersion, and simulate a point source. Vertically, the primary response lobe is +/- 15 degrees or so above and below the tweeter axis (plenty of leeway fo .......
411: General Asylum, I think the (Canadian) assumption here is that anyone that rude MUST be American. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-30, 12:06:28 (63.155.20.70)
Fact is, a LOT of our polite neighbors to the north (and other civilized people around the world) regard us as rude, boorish, vulgar, ignorant barbarians. Gee, I can't imagine where they came up with .......
412: General Asylum, Shoulda called it "Who's Left" (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-27, 11:21:35 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
413: Speaker Asylum, Maybe find a more modern plate amp . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-23, 11:49:39 (63.155.20.70)
. . . that will fit the cutout? You may have to choose one a little smaller than the cutout, and make an adaptor gasket out of 1/2" plywood. Some of the newer plate amps incorporate all kind of fancy .......
414: Speaker Asylum, A bit of both (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-20, 11:24:40 (63.155.20.70)
Any mechanical system with flexible elements will limber up with use over an initial period. Think new pair of shoes -- stiff and uncomfortable at first, becoming more comfortable after you've walked .......
415: General Asylum, Pertinent aphorisms (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-16, 16:51:41 (63.155.20.70)
The placebo effect is real. If you think a fancy wire will improve your sound, you will hear improved sound. Products are worth what customers THINK they are worth. Sale value reflects perceived valu .......
416: Vinyl Asylum, I recall a Muddy Waters interview around 1969 . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-13, 13:35:47 (63.155.20.70)
. . . where he was both amused and tickled by the upsurge of interest in the blues among young white audiences. His Black audience at the time was aging, as the younger listeners preferred R&B and fun .......
417: General Asylum, WBT makes the best bling binding posts (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-13, 11:56:21 (63.155.20.70)
Found only in the bestest and blingiest speakers! .......
418: Speaker Asylum, Modern foams generally last longer than the stuff they used in the 1970s (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-12, 13:26:28 (63.155.20.70)
I have a couple pair of speakers with Audio Concepts AC7 woofers (an OEM version of Vifa C17) from around 1990, and the surrounds show NO sign of drying out or rotting. I suspect a fair amount of rese .......
419: General Asylum, Because it cools the air above it more than warm water (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-11, 20:09:39 (63.155.20.70)
According to Ron Kurtus's physics site: "Sound seems to be amplified when it travels over water. The reason is that the water cools the air above its surface, which then slows down the sound waves nea .......
420: Vinyl Asylum, Disco biscuits! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-11, 09:28:12 (63.155.20.70)
That's what they called 'ludes back in the day. Generally combined with a few lines of coke to counter the drowsy effects and keep you on the dance floor. Shoulda had songs by Donna Summer, Chic, KC & .......
421: General Asylum, Ve are der robots! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-10, 14:23:24 (63.155.20.70)
True, we hear more and more computer-generated voices these days -- most of the unsolicited spam phone calls, certainly the call menus when you contact a company in the vain hope of talking to an actu .......
422: General Asylum, In the days before amplified sound . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-10, 14:15:46 (63.155.20.70)
. . . architects had to pay far more attention to acoustical engineering. The Mayan example is a good one, and consider also ancient Greek theaters, medieval cathedrals, and 19th century opera houses .......
423: General Asylum, Well, that's about all I hear in this town . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-10, 14:07:41 (63.155.20.70)
. . . from the fraternity boys' thumpmobiles that sound like WWIII coming from six blocks away. The hip-hop beat gives me an instant headache, and the often violent, obscene, misogynistic lyrics can b .......
424: General Asylum, Boom-boom WHACK! Boom-boom WHACK! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-10, 10:26:43 (63.155.20.70)
Muthaf***a Muthaf***a Muthaf***a Muthaf***a Boom-boom WHACK! Boom-boom WHACK! I mean, that's really all there is to it, isn't there? That and the systematic destruction of records and phono cartridges .......
425: Speaker Asylum, Weird DIY after my own heart! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-09, 14:06:46 (63.155.20.70)
Love 'em! Could you go into a bit of explanatory detail about design principles and goals, bass loading strategies, crossovers, construction techniques, etc.? Got any nearfield/in-room acoustic measur .......
426: General Asylum, It has its place -- in karaoke machines, for instance (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-09, 10:47:38 (63.155.20.70)
Along with some reverb, and some boosted second harmonic, it can make your average bar patron sound almost like a real singer. But if a professional "singer" is so out-of-tune that (s)he needs digital .......
427: Speaker Asylum, Consider keeping the Avalons, add stereo subs to fill out the bass? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-07, 14:06:49 (63.155.20.70)
Maybe something small, like the SVS Micro or the new KEF? These would give you more bass extension but not occupy much space. .......
428: General Asylum, And even cooler after cryo treatment! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-02, 11:19:48 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
429: Speaker Asylum, Cable effects will be FAR more subtle than tone controls (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-08-01, 12:30:29 (63.155.20.70)
Tone controls at their best are calibrated to maybe 0.5dB increments, with most in 1 to 2dB increments, and stuck at fixed corner frequencies. Cables can have differences (from one another, and from a .......
430: General Asylum, The turning point for clarity and extended range was around 1956 (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-29, 13:20:40 (63.155.20.70)
Think "Ella and Louis" with Oscar Peterson Quartet backing. One of the cleanest, most natural sounding vocal recordings ever made. Sure its mono, but still conveys a tremendous sense of stage depth. A .......
431: Speaker Asylum, Many audio manufacturers have similarly convoluted histories (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-28, 10:25:27 (63.155.20.70)
I'm a fan of Morel drivers, which have much in common with Dynaudio, because in the early 1970s Edjvind Skanning and Meir Mordecai co-developed several of the core technologies and shared the patents .......
432: General Asylum, Close-miked recordings reveal "details" you NEVER hear in a live performance (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-27, 13:04:46 (63.155.20.70)
All sorts of extraneous noises. The spit bubbling in a saxophone's mouthpiece. A singer's breath and lip smacking. The overblown breath on a flute. Finger squeaks on strings. The mechanism rattling in .......
433: General Asylum, He who dies with the most toys wins! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-27, 12:52:38 (63.155.20.70)
At least he won't get bored listening to the same gear all the time! Plus, he has plenty good stuff to compare to when he gets a sample in for review. .......
434: General Asylum, Don't they go slack again as soon as they cool down? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-27, 11:26:30 (63.155.20.70)
I have actually seen this technique applied to drum heads. Gets 'em nice and tight at first, but after a bit of thumping the pitch drops again. .......
435: Speaker Asylum, Actually, Tymphany sold Scan Speak back to some previously-involved Danish investors in 2009. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-27, 11:21:28 (63.155.20.70)
Then in 2014 it was sold to Eastech, Eastern Asia Technology (HK) Limited, who I believe is the current owner. Tymphany continues to own the Vifa and Peerless brands, which it acquired in 2008 when i .......
436: General Asylum, Hult Center in Eugene, OR. Another example. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-26, 11:45:35 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
437: Inmate Central, Yet they carry their cell phones everywhere. Nobody could POSSIBLY track those, could they? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-23, 13:28:15 (63.155.20.70)
At some point you just have to say "three cheers for natural selection." The more idiots die, the better. .......
438: Speaker Asylum, Any speaker builders in W Oregon? Lots of parts FREE to a good home! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-22, 15:44:51 (63.155.20.70)
Downsizing and cleaning house here in Corvallis. Getting out of the hobby because I already have 9 pair of speakers with which Goldilocks could live happily ever after. Will give away a bunch of drive .......
439: Speaker Asylum, KEF also has a long history of innovative engineering, and a substantial R&D budget . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-20, 11:29:28 (63.155.20.70)
. . . that any hobbyist or small upstart manufacturer would be hard-pressed to match. Their economy of scale helps offset overhead costs to keep the retail price down. There's no way you or I could de .......
440: General Asylum, What? You can't see those itty-bitty dots on those itty-bitty knobs from across the room? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-19, 14:42:26 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
441: General Asylum, That's true. Twisty knobs vs. sliders. Different look, but functionally identical (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-16, 12:34:48 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
442: Speaker Asylum, Parts Express has sponsored a number of these over the years. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-16, 12:32:04 (63.155.20.70)
And individuals associated with the PE Tech Talk DIY community have organized/hosted several regional design competitions. Typically the contestants are grouped into price classes, so there may be win .......
443: General Asylum, So it's a 6-band, fixed center frequencies, graphic EQ (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-15, 15:52:17 (63.155.20.70)
What a novel concept! They had more versatile ones (like my old 16-band Technics) back in the 1970s. Of course, it's a "one size fits none" kinda deal, since none of those center frequencies fall prec .......
444: Critic's Corner, Depends on how broadly you define "acoustic suspension" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-13, 11:47:51 (63.155.20.70)
Vance Dickason did so in the broadest terms possible. A sealed box with Qtc above 0.5 (often significantly above) is "acoustic suspension" because the back volume of air somewhat spring-loads the woof .......
445: General Asylum, Phase trickery (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-06, 17:33:55 (63.155.20.70)
Kinda like Carver's "Sonic Holography" way back when, though I'm sure a more sophisticated algorithm is involved. All these kind of manipulations tend to sound impressive at first and get old real fas .......
446: General Asylum, If the original studio recordings were poor, ANY end medium, analog or digital, will reflect that (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-06, 11:57:40 (63.155.20.70)
I'm a big fan of British folk-rock, particularly mid-late 1970s period. Fairport, Steeleye, Pentangle, Renbourn, Richard Thompson, that sort of thing. MUCH of it was first released on the Island recor .......
447: General Asylum, Current setup, plus maybe some acoustic treatments (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-07-02, 11:50:34 (63.155.20.70)
With some bass traps in the corners, and maybe some absorptive panels on the walls to the side of the speakers and behind your listening chair, you could get really clear and detailed sound with that .......
448: General Asylum, Jefferson Airplane, Dallas TX 1969 or 70 (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-28, 09:42:13 (63.155.20.70)
The Volunteers tour. I was 16; JA was my favorite band. They played well, and had an awesome projection light show. .......
449: Music Lane, And of course Zep plagiarized that line from Robert Johnson (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-26, 15:21:25 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
450: Critic's Corner, This has come up before . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-26, 14:44:52 (63.155.20.70)
. . . and the standard answer from the editors is that too few Stereophile readers are interested in DIY to justify the coverage. Which is a shame -- I always thought the DIY articles from Art Dudley .......
451: General Asylum, Hey, Milli Vanilli never needed AutoTune! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-25, 11:06:32 (63.155.20.70)
nt .......
452: Speaker Asylum, Wool is good, but can get moths if not treated (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-25, 11:01:56 (63.155.20.70)
My former audio dealer, now retired, told me about a TL subwoofer he once built. It sat idle for some months, the moths got in, and when he fired it up it blew a cloud of moths and wool fragments out .......
453: General Asylum, Remember "drum machines have no soul"? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-23, 12:17:00 (63.155.20.70)
True back in the 1980s when it became an issue, and still true today. A drum machine can play with robotic precision, at impossible speeds, as complicated a pattern as you can program, but it can't po .......
454: Speaker Asylum, You get a pair, or just the one? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-18, 16:35:42 (63.155.20.70)
You gave those a nice review in the 'phile just about 10 years ago. I recall you commented on their smooth and mellow balance. They still seem to be available from the Direct Acoustics web site, by cu .......
455: General Asylum, That's not confusing. THIS is confusing! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-17, 15:35:23 (63.155.20.70)
Existential dilemma. .......
456: Speaker Asylum, Gallo speaker found on Mars? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-16, 16:09:08 (63.155.20.70)
Haven't seen much coverage/advertising of the brand recently. Maybe they've found a new market? Nah, just a natural rock formation. .......
457: Speaker Asylum, You can repair the foam yourself, or have someone do it (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-08, 12:55:24 (63.155.20.70)
Refoaming kits with brand new surrounds are available from Parts Express (a few) and Speaker Works in Eugene, Oregon (just about every type of surround ever made). I think there's also an outfit in Fl .......
458: Speaker Asylum, Most Klipsch models have a somewhat elevated treble range (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-07, 11:50:07 (63.155.20.70)
Because that's what sells on first impression. Initially sounds "exciting," soon becomes fatiguing. Tweeter SHOULD be padded down a couple of dB in the crossover. If you can't do that, see about addin .......
459: Speaker Asylum, Imagine an internal screw working loose in THESE! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-07, 11:29:01 (63.155.20.70)
Magico Q7, built like an aircraft carrier. Hundreds of screws holding the braces together. If one started to rattle and buzz, you'd NEVER be able to track it down! Hope he uses lots of Loctite. ::: .......
460: Speaker Asylum, A passive speaker-level notch filter . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-04, 11:52:28 (63.155.20.70)
. . . will have identical phase characteristics to an active line-level notch filter (equalizer) with an identical transfer function. Shift happens. Acoustical phase rotates constantly with changing .......
461: Critic's Corner, Some nice choices (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-04, 11:37:23 (63.155.20.70)
I actually have about half of the albums mentioned here and in part 1, have heard most of them at one time or another. Not at all familiar with Heskelman, will have to check him out. There are so many .......
462: General Asylum, "Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-06-04, 11:25:46 (63.155.20.70)
I forget which of those old logician guys said that. The new official report seems rather vague about what the UFOs actually are, if they aren't aliens. Probably because a number of the "objects" are .......
463: Speaker Asylum, How about "built into the basement" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-28, 11:22:53 (63.155.20.70)
As in, taking up the entire basement! .......
464: Speaker Asylum, Effective first order filters are rarely simple (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-25, 16:46:34 (63.155.20.70)
You may only have one reactive element in series with each driver (two in the case of a bandpass filter), but you often need a whole bunch of circuits in parallel with each driver, to level impedance .......
465: General Asylum, Well, you can pick up a pair of pears . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-24, 16:00:13 (63.155.20.70)
. . . for far less than you would have to pay a model! I suspect the gal in the Audio Advisor catalogs is probably NOT a full time professional model, but an employee of that company in some other res .......
466: Speaker Asylum, B&O indeed (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-24, 15:37:45 (63.155.20.70)
See the BeoPlay M5 True 360, Beolit 15, Beosound Balance, and of course the top line Beolab 90, which with its multiple drivers, multiple built-in amps, and DSP phase trickery, can produce any radiati .......
467: Speaker Asylum, See also Mirage (out of business), German Physik, Dueval, FalconLab, B&O . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-24, 11:41:56 (63.155.20.70)
. . . and there are probably numerous others. The idea has been around for many decades -- even before Bose "direct/reflecting" models. See link for a gallery of vintage designs. .......
468: Speaker Asylum, WHAT local audio shop? (Can I hitch a ride on your time machine?) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-19, 11:43:41 (63.155.20.70)
Nearly extinct species. For the more fortunate among us, there MIGHT be one in a 300 mile radius, and it MIGHT have several interesting products to compare. Even without the pandemic, the industry has .......
469: Speaker Asylum, Another tricky-tech "lifestyle" product (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-18, 14:54:53 (63.155.20.70)
Some resemblance to Apple HomePod and other such. Definitely omnidirectional, probably with DSP trickery to adapt its output to various habitats, as in "smart" offerings from Kii, B&O, Devialet, etc. .......
470: General Asylum, The "live schoolers" tend to love horn speakers (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-14, 11:42:32 (63.155.20.70)
Maybe they don't have the flattest response or the most phase-coherent output, but they do "lifelike" transient response and dynamics better than anything else out there. Used to have a neighbor who h .......
471: General Asylum, How 'bout some classical kazoo? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-12, 16:10:36 (63.155.20.70)
See linky. .......
472: General Asylum, Certainly can! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-12, 16:05:20 (63.155.20.70)
Consider a recent Herb Reichert column which starts out torching a straw man (the amp manufacturer who strives for "accuracy" over euphonia), then proceeds to crap all over the very concept of fidelit .......
473: General Asylum, Well, to quote John Keats: (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-12, 12:51:07 (63.155.20.70)
"Truth is beauty, and beauty truth. That is all ye need to know." Or something like that. And there are different schools of "audiophiles." Some of us "truthers" figure that when the artist, producer, .......
474: General Asylum, Live music recorded in restaurants includes noise! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-04, 14:01:04 (63.155.20.70)
Like Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debbie" among many others. I guess the clinking dishes and silver, background chatter, cash register rings, and busboy hitting a bump with the dish cart contribute to the " .......
475: Speaker Asylum, Probably the wireless model . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-04, 11:32:00 (63.155.20.70)
. . . has a better step response, thanks to highpass delay in the DSP crossover. Here is JA's step response measurement of the somewhat cheaper LSX wireless: .......
476: General Asylum, Most power treatments try to remove HD from the line voltage. This adds it? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-03, 13:16:23 (63.155.20.70)
I thought the purpose of power treatment was to clean up the crud that comes out of the wall? In case the internal power supplies of equipment fail to do so adequately? This seems totally counterintui .......
477: Speaker Asylum, "Closed boxes can be underdamped and boomy" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-05-03, 11:58:06 (63.155.20.70)
I think "can" is the operative word here. A too-small sealed box, with a high Qtc (1.0 or higher) certainly will. It will have a big response blump right around the f3 of the woofer, which some manufa .......
478: Speaker Asylum, Plug the ports! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-30, 12:13:22 (63.155.20.70)
Enjoy tighter, cleaner mid and upper bass from your main speakers, and cross the subwoofer high enough to replace the muddy bass "enhancement" of the ports with deep clean bass. If you have the capaci .......
479: Critic's Corner, Couple of related, recommended books (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-28, 13:37:38 (63.155.20.70)
Hiya John: Nice column, as always. Touched upon the major early innovators of jazz guitar. I look forward to the sequel: you CAN'T leave out Merle Travis, Les Paul, and Chet Atkins! Anyway, a couple o .......
480: Speaker Asylum, The styling of many of their models resembles military vehicles (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-28, 11:38:27 (63.155.20.70)
Highly "functional" design, with little effort to make them pretty. Except for the glossy automotive paint jobs. I always thought they should be made available in camouflage paint, to emphasize the "J .......
481: Speaker Asylum, Prestige pricing for the elite market (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-27, 15:53:20 (63.155.20.70)
Swiss watches and fancy sports cars are excellent examples, as are high-fashion designer clothing, five-star hotels and restaurants, etc. Many high-end manufactured goods, even taking into considerati .......
482: Speaker Asylum, How about any of the LS3/5A variants? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-26, 11:42:48 (63.155.20.70)
Of course those image like champions when they're on stands in free air, but they're weak in the low frequencies without near-boundary reinforcement. And they were originally designed for desktop/near .......
483: Vinyl Asylum, Well, you certainly wouldn't want a clogged motor! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-21, 14:49:37 (63.155.20.70)
Might run slow. Like a clogged drain. .......
484: General Asylum, "I wonder what will happen to the guys who worked there." (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-14, 11:36:37 (63.155.20.70)
Apparently a lot of them cultivated an extremely snooty, rude attitude toward customers. I imagine waiting tables in high-end French restaurants would be a logical career move. .......
485: General Asylum, Joni quote: "The popular music industry has always been run by crooks . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-12, 11:18:10 (63.155.20.70)
But at least back in the 'sixties and 'seventies, some of the crooks loved music." .......
486: General Asylum, The lead-in to PF's Grantchester Meadows . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-09, 12:51:39 (63.155.20.70)
. . . with all the tweety birds, used to drive my cat NUTS. He'd stare intently at the stereo, and move his head back and forth as the sounds panned left and right across the soundstage. Especially th .......
487: Speaker Asylum, Yep. Think Dynaudio and Focal, among others. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-09, 12:37:36 (63.155.20.70)
Was a time when those brands supplied the OEM and DIY markets, as well as making their own finished systems. LOTS of high end manufacturers used their (truly excellent) drivers, and had to mutate or p .......
488: Speaker Asylum, A few genuine technical advances, and lots of marketing psychology (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-07, 12:06:22 (63.155.20.70)
Serious driver manufacturers continue to experiment with materials and geometries, and to come up with revised models that out-perform their predecessors in most design parameters. Smaller high-end fi .......
489: Vinyl Asylum, Instantly? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-06, 15:20:25 (63.155.20.70)
Sounds awful from the first notes of the first track? .......
490: Speaker Asylum, "May not be the last word in accuracy" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-04-05, 12:12:04 (63.155.20.70)
But then, what speakers are? Sure, there are any number of conventional dynamic and planar speakers out there with a flatter frequency response, less timbral coloration, and more coherent time/phase c .......
491: Critic's Corner, 21 best drummer jokes (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-26, 15:40:35 (63.155.20.133)
enjoy! .......
492: Critic's Corner, Evelyn Glennie: a deaf drummer! (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-25, 15:56:37 (63.155.20.133)
Of course, some musicians would say: "aren't they all?" .......
493: Critic's Corner, I'll pick #4. With the golden ears. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-24, 14:44:09 (63.155.20.133)
nt .......
494: General Asylum, "A single violin is as loud as the whole orchestra" (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-24, 12:18:18 (63.155.20.133)
Actually, this is done a LOT on recordings of concerti for solo instrument plus orchestra. And it arguably better suits the composer's intent to have the soloist stand out from the accompaniment. I h .......
495: General Asylum, Those aren't speakers. Those are room treatments! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-24, 12:02:11 (63.155.20.133)
nt .......
496: General Asylum, Microphones capture all kinds of "detail" you never hear in a live acoustic performance (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-22, 12:47:32 (63.155.20.133)
Especially if they are placed too close to the instrument/vocalist, or at an unnatural listening angle, so that they capture more treble "detail." Examples of the former include the tiny breath and sa .......
497: General Asylum, How's your blood pressure? (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-22, 11:48:42 (63.155.20.133)
Tinnitus is a common symptom that it's elevated. .......
498: Critic's Corner, Wouldn't it be hilarious . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-15, 12:45:32 (63.155.20.133)
. . . if this guy could perform consistently better than "golden eared" audiophiles at identifying different cables in a "blind" testing situation? I would imagine that the balloon size, inflation pre .......
499: General Asylum, Do not panic. Think only of yourself. (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-15, 12:17:57 (63.155.20.133)
See vid. .......
500: Speaker Asylum, Probably the vast majority of multi-way speakers ever made . . . (0.00)
Posted by Brian H P on 2021-03-12, 11:59:58 (63.155.20.133)
. . . cross too high from the mid to the tweeter, and hence exhibit dips in the off-axis response in the crossover region. Even expensive, well-regarded models. Many of them also have too much distanc .......
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