1: Speaker Asylum, RE: Interesting post of John Broskie on flat phase speakers. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-07-04, 20:46:34 (74.105.253.142)
I recall the Bowers and Wilkens DM6 speaker of the 1970s that was claimed to be linear phase. The drivers were physically time aligned. And the crossovers were 1st order, sort of. They were 1st order .......

2: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Qs for tube amp owners (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-30, 20:34:11 (74.105.253.142)
All gear, including solid state improves as it warms up. But if you're just there to enjoy music most gear sounds pretty good from the start. So for critical listening wait for warmup. Otherwise enjoy .......

3: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: "It certainly isn't analog..." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-27, 19:30:38 (74.105.253.142)
It's a coding system But the coding is an analog format, not a digital one. .......

4: General Asylum, RE: How's possibly sound? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-24, 20:42:02 (74.105.253.142)
All subs have a low pass filter. Almost none have a high pass filter. If there's no high pass there is no reduced usage of the main woofer. .......

5: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: The first one worth a darn (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-14, 20:29:53 (74.105.253.142)
Gordon Holt liked it a lot. But if I recall its problem was poor reliability. .......

6: Speaker Asylum, RE: Audio world would be a better place without Gordon Holt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-12, 20:42:54 (74.105.253.142)
ATC hasn't changed much over the years. They keep improving what they already have. Your description of what gear you listen to sounds perfect for ONE person, you. And that's totally fine. It just isn .......

7: Speaker Asylum, RE: Some older Wilsons and Magnepans had midbass humps. People seemed to liked it... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-12, 20:36:36 (74.105.253.142)
not at 100 HZ on a small baffle .......

8: Speaker Asylum, RE: Jagged , ragged and not sounding " high end " (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-11, 20:47:37 (74.105.253.142)
I make all my decisions on my own. Of course I listen to those I respect and include their thoughts in my own decisions. In fact when I reply to most people looking for advice I rarely name products. .......

9: Speaker Asylum, RE: Audio world would be a better place without Gordon Holt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-11, 20:42:56 (74.105.253.142)
I have my taste in speaker performance. It includes great detail, extremely tight bass and especially linear changes in loudness. Flat response is desirable but I'd sacrifice a little bit for the prio .......

10: Speaker Asylum, RE: Some older Wilsons and Magnepans had midbass humps. People seemed to liked it... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-11, 20:37:17 (74.105.253.142)
Perhaps the most famous speaker with a hump albeit around 90 to 100 Hz is the LS3/5a which was put there deliberately by the BBC. The LS3/5a rolls of at best around 70 Hz and if they had designed it w .......

11: Speaker Asylum, RE: Jagged , ragged and not sounding " high end " (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-11, 13:12:52 (74.105.253.142)
I'd make a comment but I can't stop laughing. .......

12: Speaker Asylum, RE: Audio world would be a better place without Gordon Holt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-11, 13:10:56 (74.105.253.142)
Do you know what you are talking about? Gordon can probably hear better today from his grave than you. Other than you who knows what good hi fi reproduction is? .......

13: Speaker Asylum, RE: They do nothing wrong. It's an engineering tool for music production (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-10, 20:49:39 (74.105.253.142)
All they do is tell you about the recording. If they sound lifeless you're blaming the messenger. Any piece of audio gear that always sounds one way is totally colored over ruling what's on the record .......

14: Speaker Asylum, RE: You take a dead corpse ears over your own ?. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-10, 20:46:34 (74.105.253.142)
I knew Gordon and I do know ATC speakers and they were both special. I've heard his recordings from that era and they were special. Your comment on Gordon denigrates a special man who created the curr .......

15: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Using the Dynaco ST-70 with Quad ESL 63s a Good match? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-10, 20:42:27 (74.105.253.142)
Just a comment. The Curcio Stereo 70 is not really a Stereo 70, The circuit topology is entirely different. And Berning is one of the true genius audio designers. .......

16: Critic's Corner, RE: Audio Note (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-10, 20:38:53 (74.105.253.142)
I was expecting your comment on the Audionote speaker. But while this kind of thing ultimately doesn't matter to me you missed the line that best fits your attitude, the top of the AN-E speaker line w .......

17: Speaker Asylum, RE: And he was an advocate of multichannel. (NT) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-09, 20:58:24 (74.105.253.142)
I recall when he tested a 5.1 channel ATC system in 2000 and declared it the best he ever heard. I spoke with him to confirm and he was adamant. I asked what he was going to do when he had to return i .......

18: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC - a cake with a hole in the middle (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-08, 20:54:09 (74.105.253.142)
Gordon Holt is rolling in his grave. And he backed it up with his own money. The last speakers he ever bought were ATC 50 active speakers which he told me were among the very, very few speakers that m .......

19: Speaker Asylum, RE: "Correct" reproduction of live sound is pretty much a myth (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-08, 20:50:33 (74.105.253.142)
If he were alive Gordon Holt would strongly disagree with you. He founded Stereophile for the search for it. And he did an awful lot of live recording where he could hear what he recorded and whether .......

20: Speaker Asylum, RE: The only real tea is..... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-03, 20:39:02 (74.105.253.142)
I suspect the Chinese and Japanese would question your statement. Yhey take tea as seriously as an oenophile. .......

21: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: It's just that there is so much more that would be socially beneficial that could be done... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-02, 20:46:49 (74.105.253.142)
You unfortunately for you don't accept the reality of human desires. There are moments I understand what you are saying. .......

22: Speaker Asylum, RE: Do high-end speakers over do it? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-06-01, 19:52:46 (74.105.253.142)
I don't know about the speakers you mention. I've heard them but not on an extended basis. But I do recall talking with Gordon Holt about the last speakers he purchased, the ATV 50A powered speakers. .......

23: Speaker Asylum, RE: My personal take on it is... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-31, 21:13:56 (74.105.253.142)
For what it's worth, Bud was a true character but he really knew music(classical music only though). He attended tons of concerts and operas. And I suspect he rarely missed the Saturday Metropolitan r .......

24: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Dorothy, we're not in Kansas any more. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-31, 21:07:46 (74.105.253.142)
DUH! .......

25: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Dorothy, we're not in Kansas any more. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-30, 20:40:17 (74.105.253.142)
What a boring world where lots of people are alike. .......

26: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Dorothy, we're not in Kansas any more. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-28, 20:55:11 (74.105.253.142)
You're rather abstruse. Don't assume everyone thinks the way you do. .......

27: General Asylum, RE: Eh, bland. Try Harvey's book. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-28, 20:54:01 (74.105.253.142)
Gizmo was special. I met him once at a New Yourk hi fi show and I recall him talking about sniffing crushed Oreo cookies. .......

28: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Dorothy, we're not in Kansas any more. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-27, 20:41:17 (74.105.253.142)
A subjective comment about nothing? .......

29: Speaker Asylum, RE: I think the article mentioned the option of sealing both ports for better definition. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:55:03 (74.105.253.142)
Plugging ports will of course lose bass. Ported speakers aren't really designed to have the ports stuffed. Bass comes out of the ports and it will be lost. But if a sub is designed properly as a seale .......

30: Speaker Asylum, RE: Stereo Subs (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:50:18 (74.105.253.142)
If one goes low enough and loud enough two subs are a waste. There is NO stereo down low even if it is on the source where it sometimes isn't. Three or four subs make sense because you can set them up .......

31: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Dorothy, we're not in Kansas any more. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:45:58 (74.105.253.142)
So where are we? .......

32: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Why is it even listed under "NEWS" TAS Staff... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:44:25 (74.105.253.142)
And what then is relevant. Not being perfect is not useless. They're OK starting points. The rest is up to you. .......

33: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Verbal wretched excess from VTL (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:42:31 (74.105.253.142)
It's normal hyperbole. .......

34: Critic's Corner, RE: I am hardly omniscent, but... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-26, 20:41:18 (74.105.253.142)
I suspect his definition is among the best. It looks good and it has some decent statistical reinforcement. But I suspect it still is not definitive. .......

35: Speaker Asylum, RE: Stereo Subs (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-25, 20:45:33 (74.105.253.142)
If the question is do you need stereo, meaning two subs, the answer is one or three(or four). But multiple subs are to position subs to handle room interactions since the best position(s) for sub are .......

36: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Wretched excess from Boulder (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-24, 19:10:11 (74.105.253.142)
Why don't you just ignore wretched excess. There's no law you have to pay attention. Let us voyeurs(and the few that can afford them) have our kicks without being accused of sinning. .......

37: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Wretched excess from Boulder (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-23, 19:49:41 (74.105.253.142)
Maybe you have some argument here but I've seen your argument so many times here I didn't really have to read this one. .......

38: Cable Asylum, RE: Martin Colloms writes about cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-23, 19:47:20 (74.105.253.142)
wishing doesn't necessarily make it so. And picking on Colloms is not the man to make your point again since he's very adept objectively. .......

39: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: " Solid state devices are not as linear as tubes..., so a feedback circuit is required" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-21, 22:18:20 (74.105.253.142)
Actually the curves on the old Sony VFETS look a lot like the curves on a good triode. .......

40: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Yes but some devices are a lot more linear than others (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-21, 22:16:20 (74.105.253.142)
But amplification is not totally defined by low IM and harmonic distortion which are the main things we measure. There are other factors involved in good sound and if they aren't good the low distorti .......

41: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Facinating podcast by VAC guy Kevin Hayes (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-21, 22:11:31 (74.105.253.142)
no it's not. Very low distortion is great so long as the total design of the amp produces good sound. Kevin just heard many amps with low harmonic and IM distortion that sounded bad. So the low distor .......

42: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Facinating podcast by VAC guy Kevin Hayes (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-21, 02:52:19 (74.105.253.142)
A big part of the pod cast is his comments on the KT style tubes, especially that he stuck with the original KT88 rather than the new designs, the KT90, Kt120, Kt150, and the KT170 that so many manufa .......

43: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What phono cartridges are you using (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-20, 20:53:23 (74.105.253.142)
Primarily a Technics EPC 100 MK4 moving magnet from the 1980s. An amazing device that was a favorite of many of the best recording engineers then and for me too obviously. It is dead nuts flat to 80 k .......

44: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Honest appraisal (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-20, 20:49:44 (74.105.253.142)
Of course he believes in objective measurements. But he knows we don't yet know how to totally define audio reproduction with them yet so you have to add the art of design to good measurements. By the .......

45: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Facinating podcast by VAC guy Kevin Hayes (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-20, 20:46:15 (74.105.253.142)
What Kevin said is that everything has plusses and minuses. He believes tubes are a better compromise than transistors. But being honest he gave you some of the minuses of his favorite devices. But hi .......

46: Critic's Corner, RE: ATC's SCM40 3-way tower gets a great review (NOT by me) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-20, 20:42:22 (74.105.253.142)
I just heard SCM40 with friends, a lovely speaker. But I lived with a set of active SCM40s some years ago and there's no way to match them with other amps and passive SCM40s for the same money. Active .......

47: Critic's Corner, RE: I am hardly omniscent, but... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-20, 20:38:18 (74.105.253.142)
Everyone seems to define neutrality differently. .......

48: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: " Solid state devices are not as linear as tubes..., so a feedback circuit is required" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-18, 20:51:00 (74.105.253.142)
I think all Pass amps do not employ full loop negative feedback including his production amps. .......

49: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Basic differences among power supplies (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-17, 20:48:17 (74.105.253.142)
too bad chokes are costly. They do wonderful things for the quality of amp power supplies. And it's time more audiophiles realized the power supply is the direct source of current to the speakers. Wha .......

50: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: that's correct -- it's the "SE" not the "T"... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-17, 20:43:51 (74.105.253.142)
You are correct. Triode output tubes are extremely linear devices. It's circuit topology that is responsible for the dichotomy between the positive and negative halves of the wave form. .......

51: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: that's correct -- it's the "SE" not the "T"... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-17, 20:42:03 (74.105.253.142)
By the way it's Nelson Pass who confirmed to me the dichotomy between the positive and negative halves of the wave form. .......

52: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: What Makes SET Amps Tick? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-16, 19:17:17 (74.105.253.142)
Actually there is a measurable reason for the high 2nd harmonic distortion(a truly lovely distortion for real) of SET amps. They are non-linear. They amplify asymmetrically. If you put in a simple, si .......

53: Speaker Asylum, RE: Being attached (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-11, 20:49:21 (74.105.253.142)
No, while this is another method I am talking about the dome dust cap becoming the main radiator at higher frequencies. The drivers in 2 way ATC speakers are an example. .......

54: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Great Reminder from 1954 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-11, 20:47:14 (74.105.253.142)
Sort of like Percy Wilson's Zanzibar Fallacy which implies that for most audiophiles their reference is their own system. .......

55: Speaker Asylum, RE: Being attached (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-10, 20:46:14 (74.105.253.142)
Of course it does. And some manufacturers claim as the frequency goes up the dust cap becomes the main radiator, a mechanically crossed over upper mid range dome. .......

56: Speaker Asylum, RE: Agree that area formula (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-10, 20:44:24 (74.105.253.142)
But nearly every manufacturer gives the size as the diameter of the entire driver including the frame. Off the top of my head ATC is one manufacturer who gives the diameter of moving area. And to be f .......

57: Speaker Asylum, RE: How do you measure a speaker cones surface area? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-09, 20:37:20 (74.105.253.142)
The math is correct but you need to measure the cone radius or find it in specs somewhere. The size given of most drivers is the diameter of the frame which, of course, is larger than the cone area. : .......

58: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Which Pass Labs power amp for Quad ESLs? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-08, 20:53:43 (74.105.253.142)
Knowing typical Pass Labs class A push/pull amps the XA25 is 25 watts class A into 8 ohms and then goes into class AB for higher power typically about 70 watts. When Pass calls an amp class A they onl .......

59: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Carver Tracking Power Supply (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-05-01, 20:38:59 (74.105.253.142)
The Carver did not have sliding bias. It had sliding power supply voltage. In a sense at low power Carver had a small amp with a low voltage power supply. Ay high power the amp had a high voltage powe .......

60: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Carver Tracking Power Supply (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-29, 20:39:46 (74.105.253.142)
Yes they had excellent sound. Plus the power supply concept would also work in amps with different circuit designs which is what I was suggesting. .......

61: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Carver Tracking Power Supply (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-29, 11:58:58 (74.105.253.142)
Over 25 years ago Bob Carver designed an amplifier, the Sunfire 300, that used a tracking power supply. The power supply voltage stayed within 5 volts of the signal voltage. There were multiple advant .......

62: Speaker Asylum, RE: I believe the were... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-23, 20:44:33 (74.105.253.142)
I don't think these were Dalesfords. Dalesfords were in the past. I think Bud's lower priced speakers were built to his specs in by Bill Hecht(Could be wrong but I sort of recall Bud telling me someth .......

63: Speaker Asylum, RE: replacement midrange/woofer for Fried Betas? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-22, 20:45:46 (74.105.253.142)
The drivers are old and I'm sure had foam surrounds. The old foam deteriorated just like your pictures. There's a good chance the rest of the driver is OK. Newer foam surrounds seem much longer lived. .......

64: Speaker Asylum, RE: replacement midrange/woofer for Fried Betas? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-21, 20:49:37 (74.105.253.142)
Why not simply replace the surrounds. There are kits for that and people who will do it for you if you prefer. My suspicion, knowing Bud, this was an OEM driver he had modified for his taste in sound. .......

65: Vinyl Asylum, RE: My view is entirely different ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-13, 19:28:30 (74.105.253.142)
I agree. Rolling off the bottom of the main speakers significantly reduces their driver excursion with an obvious increase in transparency and detail(when properly done). And yes I experienced it when .......

66: Speaker Asylum, RE: Bass alignment filter for B&W speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-04, 19:08:52 (74.105.253.142)
Did we learn anything from this dual diatribe? .......

67: Speaker Asylum, RE: Bass alignment filter for B&W speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-04-02, 20:42:47 (74.105.253.142)
How do you know he copied the B&W filter? .......

68: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-30, 19:51:29 (74.105.253.142)
so coaxes suck except that's not true for Altec's. And the main driver acts as a wave guide(I agree) for the tweeter but it's compromised by the main driver movement. Yet the KEF crosses at 400 Hz whi .......

69: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-30, 19:46:58 (74.105.253.142)
yes, so what, the horizontal problem has to do with the enclosure and the KM1 design will deal well with the horizontal diffraction which is also minimized by the narrow center md/tweeter panel which .......

70: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-29, 21:02:53 (74.105.253.142)
The sides are angled for the mid ranges, not the woofers .......

71: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-28, 18:58:20 (74.105.253.142)
Darn and for 6 decades I've heard it called diffraction. And you're right it occurs vertically too but on a well set up system the horizontal diffraction control is more important. .......

72: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-28, 18:55:13 (74.105.253.142)
Obviously you've never heard a set of blades properly set up. .......

73: Speaker Asylum, RE: AR 3A refoaming question (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-27, 20:46:20 (74.105.253.142)
In some ways the AR3a(and the other early AR speakers) came before the audio world was ready for them. They thrive on high current modern amps which weren't really available when Acoustic Research rul .......

74: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: current question, I'm out of my depth (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-26, 20:58:25 (74.105.253.142)
Unfortunately it isn't simply a wattage answer. Speakers are reactive loads and because of that an amp may not put out the same power into a speaker as into a resistor used for static testing. That's .......

75: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-25, 20:48:29 (74.105.253.142)
It's interesting that the KEF Blade speakers also cross from woofers to mid at 400 Hz and the woofers are on the side of the speaker 90 degrees from facing forward and the Blades are great speakers. T .......

76: Speaker Asylum, RE: Just... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-25, 20:45:21 (74.105.253.142)
It's 4 decades old .......

77: Speaker Asylum, RE: Show me a current monitor (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-24, 20:48:20 (74.105.253.142)
With the long wave lengths of a woofer in a 3 way it doesn't matter if they are mounted on angled panels. Indeed there are currently speakers with the woofers on the side(e.g. KEF Blades). The angle t .......

78: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Tube if you could afford it (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-24, 20:43:28 (74.105.253.142)
Of course it can. I was only commenting on SET topology versus push/pull topology. I wasn't making a statement about class A. .......

79: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: That's how (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-24, 20:41:27 (74.105.253.142)
That's how the output tubes are hooked up and has nothing to do with class A .......

80: Speaker Asylum, RE: Reference 3A - only for a few of their versions (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-23, 20:47:13 (74.105.253.142)
Many years ago the New Jersey audio club had a meeting featuring a multiway version where the lower mid range driver had no crossover. The top end rolled off mechanically. The bottom rolled off due to .......

81: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Tube if you could afford it (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-22, 16:18:07 (74.105.253.142)
UL is more linear than SET .......

82: Speaker Asylum, RE: Funny you mention the A25 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-21, 16:48:07 (74.105.253.142)
I worked at a Delaware Valley chain in the 70s and the A25 was used as a bait and switch speaker although for those who knew accuracy rather than boom, tizz it blew away the ESS Heils and JBLs that we .......

83: Speaker Asylum, KEF KM1 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-21, 12:05:52 (74.105.253.142)
A speaker that has fascinated me for decades is the KEF KM1. I've tended to trust KEF specs and I recall a flat frequency response from at least 40 Hz to 20 kHz. And more fascinating KEF claimed no mo .......

84: Speaker Asylum, RE: I thought you had more actual experience than software reliance (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-21, 12:01:08 (74.105.253.142)
Yet the other important 2 way system of the same era, the Dynaco A25 also ran its woofer full range(and an even simpler high pass of a resistor and capacitor in series with the tweeter) and my memory .......

85: Cable Asylum, RE: Best Budget XLR Cables? Share Your Recommendations! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-17, 20:44:57 (74.105.253.142)
I've been very happy with a 25 foot set(I use my amp next to my speakers) of Mogami cable. .......

86: Speaker Asylum, RE: I use diffraction rings (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-16, 00:00:09 (74.105.253.142)
I'd cut a rectangular hole with one dimension the driver diameter and the other bigger. A circle means you get all your diffraction at one frequency but the rectangle gives multiple lengths to the fel .......

87: Speaker Asylum, RE: Not to me (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-13, 19:54:43 (74.105.253.142)
I'd have to know what system and speakers and the room plus probably hear what you mean by sound big or small. I often find speakers that sound big do so because of non optimal focus and speakers that .......

88: Speaker Asylum, RE: Never (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-11, 20:38:03 (74.105.253.142)
That has to do with output and especially bass response. Small speakers, all things being equal, tend to have better dispersion than large ones. .......

89: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sorry (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-11, 07:03:47 (74.105.253.142)
Good speaker design should produce big images or small ones depending on the source material not the speaker design. This should be true of both small and large speakers. .......

90: Speaker Asylum, RE: What was the point of double Advents? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-10, 20:56:58 (74.105.253.142)
Sorry image wasn't bigger, it was bloated due to comb filter interference between the two tweeters. Single Advents were much cleaner and more focused. .......

91: Vinyl Asylum, RE: what an eye opener (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-10, 20:51:57 (74.105.253.142)
It seems MM cartridges are dismissed just because MC cartridges are in. Plus the comparison at the very top is basically unfair. Who makes a 5 figure MM to compare to the top MC ones? I still use some .......

92: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: 89db sensitivity and an 8-ohm load (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-08, 19:33:18 (74.105.253.142)
Just an off hand thought. Do the ML subs include a high pass filter. If so or if not and you can get a decent high pass at say 100 Hz you may be surprised. The little 5" woofer will be moving less tha .......

93: Speaker Asylum, RE: Advents)Double Advents)Modified DAs (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-06, 20:53:22 (74.105.253.142)
The real problem with double Advents was the comb filter affect caused by the parallel tweeters. It made the sound diffuse and less clear. I once was involved in a comparison for a friend of a friend .......

94: Speaker Asylum, RE: Drivers are the LEAST part of a typical speaker's cost (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-03, 20:49:48 (74.105.253.142)
If speaker design with modern tools with computers was now so easy almost every speaker should be good, at least a Stereophile A-. I don't think it's that easy. Then again, sort of contradicting mysel .......

95: Tubes Asylum, RE: Audio Research SP 10 use 6SN7 to 6922 Converter (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-03-01, 18:53:07 (74.105.253.142)
I agree. I prefer the 6SN7 to the 6922 but only if the circuit is designed for it and the tubes are way too different for that .......

96: Speaker Asylum, RE: Why do you say that ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-26, 20:31:55 (74.105.253.142)
You should never guess how a speaker sounds from a review even ones as good as Atkinson writes. .......

97: Speaker Asylum, RE: Why do you say that ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-26, 18:51:26 (74.105.253.142)
The bass hump is an anomaly of Atkinson's test method. It's not really there. I'd bet the 888 and LS3/5a are significantly different. .......

98: Speaker Asylum, RE: Even with his box speakers, his sensitivity specs have not proven to be accurate. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-24, 20:56:39 (74.105.253.142)
Given how deceptive these specs are it's not surprising his other specs may be off. But this spec given the need for tons of power to equalize the bass response seems way, way off. Plus as I think, if .......

99: Speaker Asylum, RE: It's time to review Tekton Solitude (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-24, 18:39:41 (74.105.253.142)
It's hard to tell from the website how it works as a dipole. The crossover from the dipole woofers is at 340 Hz to tweeters that normally are closed back(not dipoles). So unless the tweeters are modif .......

100: Speaker Asylum, RE: A mentor of mine (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-21, 20:42:45 (74.105.253.142)
Agreed. I had a good friend, George Bischof who was a magician setting up speakers and he always began with the rule of thirds when it was possible. .......

101: General Asylum, RE: How low do you or anybody else feel is deep enough? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-18, 20:41:26 (74.105.253.142)
And at 80 dB your ears are way down in response, about 20 dB? meaning even if it's on the recording you won't hear it. .......

102: Critic's Corner, RE: MoFi Electronics Source Point 888 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-14, 20:35:31 (74.105.253.142)
Please name the 'dull' Andrew Jones speakers. I read a ton of reviews including foreign ones and have never read anything but raves for his speakers, at least beginning with the TAD 1. .......

103: Critic's Corner, RE: if they tell you too much about the nuts and bolts... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-13, 20:36:11 (74.105.253.142)
It's not as easy as U think. In the case of the MoFi 888, the drivers are proprietary and not just their name stamped on it. The real problem is the one I stated. Most reviewers don't know enough abou .......

104: Critic's Corner, RE: MoFi Electronics Source Point 888 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-12, 20:54:14 (74.105.253.142)
John is probably different. He probably knows a lot about how things are made. So this comment doesn't apply to his review. But most reviewers don't understand, even functionally, how things work. Whe .......

105: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Pretty sure this amp is class B not AB (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-08, 20:36:08 (74.105.253.142)
How do U define a class B amp. Every amp has some bias and therefore at least a tiny amount of class A. Plus just a comment on power supplies. As far as I'm concerned the better the power supply the b .......

106: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I used to think that was true (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-04, 20:51:35 (74.105.253.142)
The problem with a 'musical' system is that yes it almost always sounds 'nice' no matter the input but the great recordings' reproduction are cheated. .......

107: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: What is this Dynaco PAS? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-04, 20:47:38 (74.105.253.142)
I built a PAS 2 in 1964 later updated to a PAS 3 and finally a PAS 3X. And there were only 2 differences between a PAS 2 and a PAS 3: 1. A nicer front panel and control knobs 2. A list price in crease .......

108: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I used to think that was true (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-03, 20:56:36 (74.105.253.142)
I hate to disagree. But any audio product should sound like the input if it's high fidelity. Other wise it's colored badly. And I know for a fact that that kind of musical approach is what bothered Go .......

109: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Class A makes all the differences (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-03, 20:53:22 (74.105.253.142)
They're very different amps. The 150.5 are bridged SETs(single ended transistors) which effectively gives the advantages of both. The 30 is purely single ended which is inherently non linear(which Nel .......

110: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: OK, class D is better than class A (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-03, 20:48:58 (74.105.253.142)
non answer since I didn't come close to saying that. Plus probably to make things worse the entire system is digitized including speaker control and room control. I'm just saying an audio system is a .......

111: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: the bias for UL (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-02, 20:56:06 (74.105.253.142)
You've proven one thing. You prefer Plinius amps in your system. The best system I've ever heard was all class D amps. And it was DIY. .......

112: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Pass Labs class A (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-02, 20:53:51 (74.105.253.142)
Define better. We all have personal tastes. I hope not to hear musical. That's a non answer. High fidelity isn't musical ; it's supposed to be accurate. The question in an audio world with imperfect d .......

113: Speaker Asylum, RE: Mr Richie is rediscovering the evolution of WATT and then Puppy (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-01, 20:48:54 (74.105.253.142)
I was surprised by the GR Research reports but those kinds of measurements don't lie. I have heard Wilson speakers I've liked but they're later models without the Focal tweeter which I know from a des .......

114: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Class A makes all the differences (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-02-01, 20:41:37 (74.105.253.142)
I hope the sound isn't pretty on almost everything. Then it's a 'musical' coloration. Sometimes the extra headroom of AB is worth some loss of low end linearity from class A. It depends on the system .......

115: Speaker Asylum, RE: Watt Puppy review ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-31, 20:49:54 (74.105.253.142)
The sound of a 'perfect' speaker would depend primarily on the source recording and also on the gear in front of it. Speakers, even great ones, are voiced differently. It appears that Martin is making .......

116: Speaker Asylum, RE: Cool (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-07, 20:44:24 (74.105.253.142)
But Mark didn't attack the deep bass situation in his new speaker as was done on the Pipe Dreams and original Scaena speakers. They used a bass system similar to one McIntosh used in the 1970s where t .......

117: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sure (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-06, 19:52:42 (74.105.253.142)
I've heard both the Roger Russel speaker and the Scaena. The Russel is superb. So are the Scaenas although I suspect the best bass came from the original bass speaker design, not the later versions. T .......

118: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: BB pellet tweak (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-05, 20:51:55 (74.105.253.142)
I've used the technique for years and not due to the article. I found some very small cardboard boxes(from a hobby shop; they look like 2" or so hat boxes) and filled them with BBs. The idea was simpl .......

119: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Vinyl OR digital - it always depends on your system [nt] (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-05, 20:47:10 (74.105.253.142)
Totally agree .......

120: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Depends on your system... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2025-01-04, 20:52:32 (74.105.253.142)
Normally I'd challenge you for not viewing the video and commenting. But having heard great vinyl systems that I'd NEVER use the word warm I have to agree. It's all dependent on the system and the inp .......

121: Speaker Asylum, RE: Why do my Vandersteen's sound... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-27, 20:46:32 (74.105.253.142)
only trivia but he Dynaco A25 was probably the most successful speaker which takes absolutely nothing away from the Vandersteen 2 which was also both wonderful and successful and it did have a signifi .......

122: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: "On the other hand, they will not "improve" source material" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-22, 19:34:22 (74.105.253.142)
I for one would never want to give up the magic of a great system playing great source material. And I personally know that the same was true for Gordon Holt who was not happy with the direction audio .......

123: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Didn't Carver amps have a reputation for catching fire ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-04, 20:45:16 (74.105.253.142)
I don't know but having read multiple magazines for years and surfed the net I never read about the fires, especially for the Sunfire amps. And while my sample is just a sample of 1(plus a friend who .......

124: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Refurbed Quad 57's ok at 90db? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-03, 23:16:20 (74.105.253.142)
It's a bit more complex than a steady output level when the music varies dynamically strongly such as a piano on peaks. A piano can do sudden, short term 30 dB peaks so for a split second your 80 dB b .......

125: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Lowest prices on amps with decent power supplies ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-03, 23:10:55 (74.105.253.142)
Doubling power as the speaker impedance halves is a good sign of a decent power supply. So normally doubling from 8 ohms to 4 ohms is a good sign. Then doubling again into 2 ohms is a really great sup .......

126: Critic's Corner, RE: Estelon Diamond Mk2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-02, 20:44:30 (74.105.253.142)
I'd argue that while flat response is immensely desirable it isn't the most important factor in a speaker system sounding live(with good recordings of course). .......

127: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Seems power supply bound -nt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-12-01, 20:48:24 (74.105.253.142)
When are audiophiles going to learn the power supply is the amplifier. The better the power supply the better the amp. The amplifier circuit is just a way to open and close the power supply to simulat .......

128: Speaker Asylum, RE: Totem Tweeter (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-29, 20:40:04 (74.105.253.142)
Totem designs their own woofers. They design them to roll off smoothly without high frequency ringing common in almost all speakers, so the woofers don't need a low pass crossover. They also seem to m .......

129: Critic's Corner, RE: You are correct... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-26, 20:39:19 (74.105.253.142)
You don't have to be technical to do a subjective review and you don't need to write about it, but if you are, if you write about how a product works, you're responsible for knowing what you're writin .......

130: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Try the Vandersteen approach (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-25, 19:12:43 (74.105.253.142)
Unless I'm missing something Vandersteen isn't as worried about phase and time alignment at very low frequencies. The latest Model 7 has the woofers on the sides behind the other drivers when you woul .......

131: Critic's Corner, RE: Reviewer errors? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-25, 19:07:21 (74.105.253.142)
These are overt errors and should be caught before publishing. What hits me are the more subtle errors like almost no one seems to know the difference between a ribbon driver and a planar driver and a .......

132: General Asylum, RE: We have a ZVOX soundbar. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-16, 20:39:03 (74.105.253.142)
what was even nicer from ZVOX but essentially dropped was their sound base series which were deep and you set the TV on top of it and it allowed room for a big bass enclosure wit fairly large down fir .......

133: Speaker Asylum, RE: Agree that he knows what to expect from.his speakers. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-06, 20:39:21 (74.105.253.142)
You certainly are in a sparse field. .......

134: Speaker Asylum, RE: Questioning interest in MoFi speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-05, 18:58:57 (100.1.65.120)
The SP 888 is basically an SP 8 with woofers handling the lower octaves. The woofers add bass but they also improve the mid range because the mid range now only moves significantly less than it had to .......

135: Speaker Asylum, RE: Bass "sloped response.... tied to directivity as well as response." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-11-01, 20:56:35 (100.1.65.120)
Deep bass is totally omnidirectional. It can't be located by human hearing. If the deep bass comes from a separate sub woofer with a fast low pass crossover you can stand next to the sub woofer while .......

136: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: New Push Pull amp build (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-26, 19:44:59 (71.251.206.57)
I love it, especially the power supply where much of the magic of a wonderful amp comes from. .......

137: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Mosfet Amps (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-26, 19:42:11 (71.251.206.57)
Find a second Hafler and use them as monoblocks. You get way more than double the power. .......

138: General Asylum, RE: What am I really hearing? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-24, 20:46:17 (71.251.206.57)
Do the measurements matter? Yes. But you really hear with your brain. The brain interprets what the ears receive and if you haven't trained your brain to interpret what you hear you don't hear all of .......

139: Speaker Asylum, RE: Dual Inputs (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-10, 20:45:18 (71.251.206.57)
I've seen reports on this subject in some reviews and it seems to vary which set of inputs to use. I've never done it but given how small things can have noticeable affects I suspect there are often d .......

140: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: New Amp Day (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-03, 19:38:25 (71.251.206.57)
The Pass amp is essentially class A, meaning into 8 ohms it's class A up to 25 watts which means almost all the amplification is class A. But above 25 watts the amp goes into class B up to over a clea .......

141: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Okay, I'll play . . . (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-10-01, 17:49:41 (71.251.206.57)
Technics EPC 100MK4 MM Technics EPC 205 MK4 MM Shure V15 V MR/JICO stylus MM .......

142: General Asylum, RE: on the flip side ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-08, 20:54:21 (71.251.206.57)
You didn't get fleeced. It's unfortunate but it's up to you to go to a dealer for a test. If you send it back the dealer is fleeced. If you were a dealer trying to pay bills you wouldn't even ask this .......

143: General Asylum, RE: The song we have all been waiting for - it defies genre labeling. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-07, 19:14:36 (71.251.206.57)
Dangerous claim about any song which is truly subjective for every listener. But you obviously got great pleasure from it and that's great. .......

144: Speaker Asylum, RE: Why don't we see more these directivity plots? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-06, 20:53:32 (71.251.206.57)
Music is transients and complex ones especially if there are many sources and then they all add together at our ears for our brains to interpret. Thanks for the thoughts about phase differences. I nee .......

145: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Biggest Con is that recordings were made NOT using horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-06, 20:48:39 (71.251.206.57)
If only flat response was the only thing that mattered since it isn't. There's so much more and I wouldn't even give it 1st place. .......

146: General Asylum, RE: The 12-Tone Country & Western Song we all have been waiting for!!! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-06, 20:45:29 (71.251.206.57)
Thank You! .......

147: Speaker Asylum, RE: Why don't we see more these directivity plots? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-05, 19:55:45 (71.251.206.57)
It's interesting that some audiophiles can hear where the crossovers are. I suspect it's not really the crossover itself but the sudden change in directivity that often occurs at crossover due to the .......

148: General Asylum, RE: A cruel irony, the earliest CDs are oft the best-sounding. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-05, 19:50:55 (71.251.206.57)
AS long as you don't mean some of the very first ones. I had a demo CD from Technics that was only good for taking the paint off the walls. I do think a lot was learned though in a few years. ::: TOPI .......

149: General Asylum, RE: most musically involving system you have ever heard ? ....... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-09-01, 20:58:10 (71.251.206.57)
Ina way you're asking for the audio GOAT and I hesitate to name one having over 50 years of audiophilia with poor auditory memory like 99% of us. But I recently heard home grown speakers by a member o .......

150: General Asylum, RE: here's mine: (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-25, 18:40:48 (71.251.206.57)
You have a point of discussion but the vast majority of hearing is done with the brain which is why people like HP and JGH were great judges of audio until they died. .......

151: General Asylum, RE: My short list for Ralston-Room-Clone project loudspeakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-25, 18:38:12 (71.251.206.57)
Add the ATC SCM300ASL Pro speakers with 2 15" woofers? .......

152: General Asylum, RE: If You Wanted to "Clone" Sewanee's Ralston Listening Library Room (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-24, 04:04:38 (71.251.206.57)
You obviously need a large speaker with wide bandwidth and the capacity to play cleanly at orchestral levels. I have never heard the large Magicos but I have heard enough Magicos to seriously consider .......

153: General Asylum, RE: Insightful introduction in product manual by Nelson Pass (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-24, 03:57:02 (71.251.206.57)
To paraphrase Einstein, the simplest solution is the best solution so long as it WORKS. .......

154: General Asylum, RE: everyone demoing played "jazz at the pawnshop " or "Cantate Domino " (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-23, 21:23:07 (71.251.206.57)
A friend of mine owned an audio store and worked as a plumber until the store got going. He was working at a house with another worker and the worker mentioned he had played in a jazz band in Sweden a .......

155: General Asylum, RE: I remember when the Allied Radio catalog was the "wish book" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-23, 20:43:53 (71.251.206.57)
I still have a copy of the 1965 Radio Shack catalog. And I have a 1966 Lafayette catalog which was the direct competitor. If you haven't seen copies you'd be amazed. They had everything from most of t .......

156: General Asylum, RE: the remember when thread ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-23, 20:38:07 (71.251.206.57)
I remember when my Audio Research SP 3 pre amp stopped working. I called up my dealer, DS Audio, in Lebanon, Pa. And he assured me not to worry. He knew the problem and the fix. It turned out I had on .......

157: General Asylum, RE: Insightful introduction in product manual by Nelson Pass (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-23, 19:58:08 (71.251.206.57)
In May 1979 at Chicago CES Iwas given a demo by Murray Zeligman and David Berning of the Audionics BA150 amp that David designed. It had variable negative feedback in steps from bout 16 dB to 0dB. We .......

158: Speaker Asylum, RE: If you're not a coherency freak (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-23, 19:50:26 (71.251.206.57)
Irecall being told by people I respect that the biggest problem with the IRS speakers was the transition from the woofer towers to mid range planars, that the midranges didn't go low enough with power .......

159: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: The Pros and Cons of Horn Speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-22, 21:08:52 (71.251.206.57)
From listening to good line sources it's not a huge problem though you are correct it's there. But everything is a trade off and horns have strong plusses(many I admire) but they do have other problem .......

160: General Asylum, RE: the remember when thread ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-22, 21:01:30 (71.251.206.57)
I remember when high end speaker cable was 14 gauge lamp cord instead of 16 gauge. .......

161: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: The Pros and Cons of Horn Speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-21, 20:23:34 (71.251.206.57)
Just one thought. Dynamic line sources have excellent control of dispersion also like you're describing for horns. .......

162: General Asylum, RE: what if any Turntable experience do you have (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-20, 21:40:13 (71.251.206.57)
I don't know the history of the person who bothers you but what he said is true(and obvious) .......

163: Speaker Asylum, RE: Do you think this is Bobby Palkovic's art work or his assistant Deb Laraby? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-17, 19:50:31 (71.251.206.57)
Reminds me that the old Pink Triangle turntable had an inverted ruby bearing. On big letters on the top of the box was written: Useless if dropped Truly a challenge to transportation. Plus I knew Bobb .......

164: Vintage Asylum, RE: Had em in the store and I though they had (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-16, 21:11:57 (71.251.206.57)
Stacked Advents lack the precision of single advents. They are less detailed and don't image as well. But they do put out a wide, if imprecise, sound stage due comb filtering between the tweeters. ::: .......

165: Tubes Asylum, RE: I have an early Dual 50 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-14, 20:52:41 (71.251.206.57)
That is old. It was in a period Bill Johnson had sold ARC before buying it back. It brings back memories. I owned a Dual D MK2 that was modified to a DUAL 50 F MK2. Unfortunately it blew up 3 times in .......

166: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Not permanent? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-14, 20:47:51 (71.251.206.57)
I totally agree about microphonics in electronics and especially concerning digital. I'm not sure I agree about your last assertion unless you're talking about room interactions but I always try to ke .......

167: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Something not commercially available only for educated listeners = placebo :) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-14, 20:44:45 (71.251.206.57)
Sorry it works. It was offered to many companies who made super CDs and they all turned it down although they heard the difference and it would have cost pennies. A few of the developer's friends know .......

168: Critic's Corner, RE: The days of class a/b amps are numbered (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-12, 20:47:54 (71.251.206.57)
There is some logic here but you obviously don't understand other audiophiles may think different than you. We once expected CDs to rule and they are gone but records are resurging, admittedly a niche .......

169: Critic's Corner, RE: Relentless (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-11, 20:58:49 (71.251.206.57)
The A25 was a great speaker, especially for the money. It's been decades since It was especially good in the bass, not so much how low it went but the quality and control.I heard them but I'd bet they .......

170: Critic's Corner, RE: Relentless (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-11, 20:52:31 (71.251.206.57)
If anything a class D amp needs a great power supply even more than a class A or AB amp. It needs an instantaneous change from zero to max output which, of course, is impossible. Otherwise the square .......

171: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Quad ESL and Pass Labs XA25 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-10, 16:03:17 (71.251.206.57)
Keep in mind Pass amps handle bad speaker loads very well. Plus the 25 watt rating of the amp is at 8 ohms and at class A. The amp actually is a rcih class A AB amp and easily puts out over 70 watts A .......

172: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Not permanent? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-10, 15:57:33 (71.251.206.57)
I was only speaking about static electricity, my bad for not being more specific, which does affect CD play noticeably. And most of those treatments, such as spray, are temporary, sometimes not even l .......

173: Critic's Corner, RE: Relentless (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-10, 15:54:19 (71.251.206.57)
Audiophiles almost always under rate the importance of the power supply. You almost can't have too big a power supply so it doesn't vary which will distort the output signal. The power supply is the a .......

174: Critic's Corner, RE: Relentless (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-10, 15:50:18 (71.251.206.57)
What speakers are you using? The Dynaco amp is a great little amp but optimistically rated at 17 watts. .......

175: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Placebo? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-09, 20:54:01 (71.251.206.57)
They're not all placebos since I've experienced a clear improvement(almost immediately obvious to many educated listeners) which is unfortunately not commercially available. I believe at least some of .......

176: General Asylum, RE: Ah but above port tuning bass reflex has lower IM distortion (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-09, 20:46:40 (71.251.206.57)
There always are trade offs. But a well designed closed box has way less over hang than a well designed reflex box and that makes it my choice. A little more distortion is not a huge deal. Overhang is .......

177: Critic's Corner, RE: Relentless (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-08, 20:49:53 (71.251.206.57)
The two most expensive parts of an amp are the chassis and the transformer. .......

178: General Asylum, RE: ported drivers drop like a stone on the low end at 24db per octave (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-03, 20:56:15 (71.251.206.57)
It isn't just that closed boxes roll at 12 Db and ported at 24 Db. But because of the slower roll off closed boxes also have less bass overhang, meaning the quality of the bass is also superior and it .......

179: General Asylum, RE: I recently turned off my 12" sealed sub (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-02, 20:54:18 (71.251.206.57)
Do your subs have a high pass filter. If they do, which seems rare, you would gain bass extension and better sound from the driver above the sub due to significantly reduced excursion if there is a hi .......

180: General Asylum, RE: Rotary then horn then infinite baffle then open baffle then Low Q direct (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-02, 20:48:47 (71.251.206.57)
But the rotary is essentially non existent. And while the horn may be great, a real horn that goes down to the 20s is so huge it almost has to be built into the house like John Crabbe, the editor of H .......

181: General Asylum, RE: Sub Woofers - ported vs Sealed? Active or not? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-08-01, 20:34:22 (71.251.206.57)
Sealed is significantly more controlled with less overhang. A port(or passive radiator) is essentially a resonant device that you need towait for it to sub vibrating which is behind the end of the sig .......

182: Speaker Asylum, RE: Valchromat is 30% stiffer than MDF but more importantly 3 times as stiff (???) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-31, 20:58:43 (71.251.206.57)
Sorry, brain fade. It's 30% denser. And I personally would gild the lily and also use constrained layer damping. But I now recall the Ex Machina owner implied it's better damped than MDF claimimg that .......

183: Speaker Asylum, RE: Valchromat is 30% stiffer than MDF but more importantly 3 times as stiff (???) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-31, 20:54:16 (71.251.206.57)
Sorry my brain wandered. It's 30% denser. .......

184: Speaker Asylum, RE: Valchromat? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-29, 18:47:05 (71.251.206.57)
I keep being tempted to build new speakers and every time I find a new box material the itch hits again and I look here for any inmate insights. .......

185: Speaker Asylum, RE: Ex Machina, a pro audio active monitor company, does use Valchromat and makes a selling point out of it. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-29, 18:45:25 (71.251.206.57)
Thanks John. One of the systems I was thinking of building is the SEAS KINGRO4Y MK3 which is also a 3 way with a coax mid/tweeter. Although I'd redesign the enclosure for better vibration control(keep .......

186: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: GREAT HORNYTOADS (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-29, 18:39:51 (71.251.206.57)
I agree with you about glare. It can make an otherwise great system unlistenable. And if I have any problem with my system it is occasional glare. And I may be being too kind to my speakers because I .......

187: Critic's Corner, RE: I think Eggleston Works used to run the mids wide open on some models (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-29, 18:31:11 (71.251.206.57)
Triple isobaric makes no sense. Isobaric claims constant pressure on the outer driver because the inner driver moves in parallel. But it doesn't. The inner driver is loaded by its box and at some poin .......

188: Speaker Asylum, Valchromat? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-28, 15:42:50 (71.251.206.57)
Has anyone used Valchromat in speaker enclosures? I t sounds like good stuff. It comes in colors and the colors are constant all through the board. It's supposed to be stronger than MDF. And unlike MD .......

189: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: GREAT HORNYTOADS (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-26, 17:35:38 (71.251.206.57)
First of all my Froys are over 20 years old with older woofer baskets. Secondly Mine are crossed over passively at 85 Hz to 18" woofers in 5.25 cubic foot boxes with a stuffed port kike Dynaco A25s. T .......

190: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: "By the way have you heard the Froy 3 speakers?" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-26, 17:14:09 (71.251.206.57)
I can play Mahler on them. .......

191: Speaker Asylum, RE: You're mistaken (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-25, 13:39:24 (71.251.206.57)
Agreed, all class D amps are analog. Class D is an analog format. It's unfortunate that it's called class D especially since the signal is encoded and decoded but it is an analog encoding. The combina .......

192: Speaker Asylum, RE: I usually am not in favor of active loudspeakers... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-24, 20:49:22 (71.251.206.57)
And I am in favor of active speakers. Passive crossovers are evil. They make many amplifiers unhappy. I do understand your aversion to doing active digitally but digital is getting better and better. .......

193: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: GREAT HORNYTOADS (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-24, 20:40:51 (71.251.206.57)
Do you think as a 60 year audiophile with special interest in speakers I've never experienced electrostatic and other planar speakers. I use the Froy 3s (with custom 18 ' woofers designed by the Froy .......

194: Speaker Asylum, RE: Question about Seas L26RO4Y in parallel (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-23, 23:22:42 (71.251.206.57)
The lowest the impedance curve is 5 ohms below 120 Hz so two in parallel is half that or 2.5 ohms. But you also have to take into account the reactance, where the voltage and current are out of phase .......

195: Speaker Asylum, RE: Anyone who interested to have the Linkwitz? Forget about posting on Oplug! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-19, 21:05:42 (71.251.206.57)
The Linkwitz woofers are dipole. The only way to get deep bass from a dipole because of front to back cancellation from all dipole bass designs is to add bass boost(equalization). Plus no drivers look .......

196: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: How many KT170 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-19, 20:56:29 (71.251.206.57)
It depends on how many watts you want and what class you run in and triode/pentode since class A reduces power as does triode. But based on friends who designed tube amps and discussions I'd pick trio .......

197: Speaker Asylum, RE: SVS Subwoofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-18, 20:16:20 (71.251.206.57)
One of the problems is most subs don't have a high pass filter which admittedly is difficult to do. But done right it opens ups the octaves above the sub substantially. .......

198: Speaker Asylum, RE: Anyone who interested to have the Linkwitz? Forget about posting on Oplug! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-18, 20:13:37 (71.251.206.57)
The woofers are equalized so they need power, the more the better. I've heard the 1st version and it is an excellent speaker. .......

199: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: " But they didn't alter the main direction in design " (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-18, 20:10:25 (71.251.206.57)
Heck of a logical argument against what I'm arguing. .......

200: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: " But they didn't alter the main direction in design " (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-18, 06:38:51 (71.251.206.57)
I agree the 57 was the beginning of a significant niche in the speaker market but it still was a niche. My difference with TAS is not at all that the 57 was not important and should be in the list, ju .......

201: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Guilty as charged! ;) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-17, 20:16:19 (71.251.206.57)
I love classical music. And the Quads are good for some classical, just not all. Perhaps fine for a string quartet but Mahlers 9th? I have a private recording of Carmina Burana with no compression. It .......

202: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: you didn't do any homework - "It didn't lead the way to a new direction for speakers." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-17, 20:12:22 (71.251.206.57)
not worth much more back and forth. I'll end by saying I think we agree a lot on the facts, just not on the final conclusion. .......

203: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: you didn't do any homework - "It didn't lead the way to a new direction for speakers." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-17, 06:55:22 (71.251.206.57)
To clarify. I do know their history and I agree they opened up a new direction in speaker design. But they didn't alter the main direction in design which still remains the classic dynamic speaker. So .......

204: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Kudos for the Quad ESL (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-16, 20:16:33 (71.251.206.57)
It's wonderful with some performance aspects way ahead of its time but it can't be the number one speaker because it's a niche product. It didn't lead the way to a new direction for speakers. The 'con .......

205: General Asylum, RE: oversized ,,,, overbuilt ,,,,, overpriced ....... the new way of audiophiles ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-15, 20:43:05 (71.251.206.57)
I'm retired. I can't afford much new gear. But as long as there are good products I can afford who cares if there is mega gear I can't afford. It's still fun to read about it, how its designed and bui .......

206: Speaker Asylum, RE: Clearly identify your priorities (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-14, 19:30:31 (71.251.206.57)
I agree with knowing your priorities. Knowing yourself is imperative to making decisions. And that includes 3 categories of performance qualities. First are those factors you must have. Second are qua .......

207: General Asylum, RE: put together a system that changed my understanding of the hobby ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-13, 19:24:41 (71.251.206.57)
I haven't heard your system, of course, so I can't comment on its sound. But the logic of the system is quite clear and my suspicion is that one of its virtues is its dynamics, its jump factor. ::: TO .......

208: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Oh my...not more poweramps! Yes, Virginia, there really is... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-13, 19:22:16 (71.251.206.57)
One of my best friends knew Berning years ago. He even produced David's first preamp and shared patents with David for tube /FET combos. And my friend also was a very creative designer of almost every .......

209: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Oh my...not more poweramps! Yes, Virginia, there really is... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-13, 19:16:19 (71.251.206.57)
I had a friend who worked with Berning in the 70s and 80s and he described a brilliant designer whose claims are very modest. His first amp, the Audionics BA150 was turned on in 1972 and turned off in .......

210: Cable Asylum, RE: Best Inexpensive AC cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-11, 20:37:54 (71.251.206.57)
Many conditioners do suck the life out of amps due to high output impedance because of all the components conditioning the AC. But a regenerator with low output impedance can improve performance espec .......

211: Speaker Asylum, RE: "I guess the designers were old friends." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-09, 19:47:22 (71.251.206.57)
Who are the designers that worked with Kloss. Plus Sand y was a great concept man but his partner, who was from canada, was the nuts and bolts designer at both companies. .......

212: Speaker Asylum, RE: "I guess the designers were old friends." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-08, 20:57:01 (71.251.206.57)
And Sandy had a partner in both companies who was also the chief designer for both companies. .......

213: Cable Asylum, RE: Cables Damage sound? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-08, 20:53:04 (71.251.206.57)
It only takes one weak link to reduce the quality of reproduction. But if most of the gear is excellent, of course, the affect of the weak link is less. .......

214: General Asylum, RE: An absolute treat this morning CD from 1991 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-06, 20:44:20 (71.251.206.57)
The story is true. There's even more to the story later on but not something I think I should relate. By the way George and I were very best friends from about 1980 until he passed away. I miss George .......

215: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: LRS+ and Sub Xover point (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-05, 19:37:17 (71.251.206.57)
Couldn't agree with you more. A sub without a high pass is only doing half the job. A properly designed high pass opens up the octaves above the crossover significantly and improves the dynamics of th .......

216: General Asylum, RE: An absolute treat this morning CD from 1991 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-05, 19:25:45 (71.251.206.57)
I also have a copy. She's wonderful as a blues singer. I believe she now does Christian music. By the way Kavi began the recording but Vandersteen finished it. .......

217: Cable Asylum, RE: Best Inexpensive AC cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-05, 19:21:51 (71.251.206.57)
The PS Audio is AC to DC to AC. PS Audio is one of the largest producers of AC regenerators. .......

218: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Ergo... Constrained layered damping has yielded superb results in my experience _nT (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-04, 20:41:42 (71.251.206.57)
You realize that raising the resonance and stiffer are the same thing? .......

219: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Ergo... Constrained layered damping has yielded superb results in my experience _nT (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-02, 19:42:15 (71.251.206.57)
except every thing I've read says it's better to raise resonance. Plus some very well received speakers use constrained layer damping such as Q audio(Fink designed) and Fink speakers> And the Fink com .......

220: Speaker Asylum, RE: BAF for B&W 801 S2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-01, 20:52:04 (71.251.206.57)
And small port size can mean the bass at high levels rolls off earlier than at lower levels. The port is a band pass radiator and a small port has more limited capacity to act as the port was designed .......

221: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Ergo... Constrained layered damping has yielded superb results in my experience _nT (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-01, 20:45:59 (71.251.206.57)
The answer is to use both. The bracing raises the resonant frequency of the panels. The constrained layer damping reduces the intensity and duration of the resonances. .......

222: Cable Asylum, RE: Best Inexpensive AC cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-07-01, 20:42:17 (71.251.206.57)
A second generation PS Audio. Amp is a Sunfire 300 watt but with a captive AC cord plugged into an old AC filter but with separate outputs for high current devices designed for amps. The amp is the on .......

223: Speaker Asylum, RE: BAF for B&W 801 S2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-30, 19:33:53 (71.251.206.57)
But even a super well designed ported speaker has more overhang than a well designed closed box. It's just physics. I happen to have custom 18" woofers that can be ported or a sealed port. The port de .......

224: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Perforated speaker cabinets (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-30, 19:27:30 (71.251.206.57)
I'm totally aware of Q Acoustics cabinets. Rockport also uses constrained layer damping and probably a few others. I mentioned IMF because they did it 50 years ago. And, of course, in the 60s there we .......

225: Cable Asylum, RE: Best Inexpensive AC cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-30, 19:23:22 (71.251.206.57)
I have a regenerator for everything but the power amp. I'm currently using Pangea cables, large gauge for the regenerator. I just wonder if spending a bit more will make a difference. For what it's wo .......

226: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Perforated speaker cabinets (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-29, 19:27:21 (71.251.206.57)
The simplest way to control panel damping is constrained layer damping which is 2 layers for each panel glued together with a glue that never totally hardens. The panels can be the same material or di .......

227: Speaker Asylum, RE: BAF for B&W 801 S2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-28, 19:01:10 (71.251.206.57)
I never found ant bass reflex speaker that's over damped. I think it's just that reflex has become so common we find good closed boxes too tight in relationship. They aren't. They just seem to be beca .......

228: Speaker Asylum, RE: BAF for B&W 801 S2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-27, 20:37:50 (71.251.206.57)
you misunderstand what I wrote. The BAF can change the shape of the roll off curve which changes the Q of the whole system and depending on how the BAF affects that shape it can improve the speaker Q. .......

229: Speaker Asylum, RE: BAF for B&W 801 S2 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-26, 20:46:59 (71.251.206.57)
I think I'm correct here so here goes. Bass tightness is greatly influenced by the bass Q of the speaker. Chaning the bass transfer function, where it starts to fall off and how fast it rolls and the .......

230: Critic's Corner, RE: Some attempts haven't been successful IMHO (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-25, 14:28:05 (71.251.206.57)
I'd add that I know the designers of the Pipe Dreams and Scaena speakers and they have 2 subs and they work probably because of the adaptability to positioning designed into the crossovers. ::: TOPIC: .......

231: Critic's Corner, RE: Speakers with Subwoofers in the Ultra High-End? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-24, 20:49:16 (71.251.206.57)
A speaker system must be an integrated system. And if it employs a sub woofer, that sub woofer is part of that system. You need to use a bespoke crossover between all portions of a speaker system in o .......

232: Cable Asylum, Best Inexpensive AC cables (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-24, 19:47:14 (71.251.206.57)
Thoughts on inexpensive AC cables? Two questions. Best for the dollar reasonably priced? Least costly yet still good cables. My main audio values, dynamic linearity and great detail. .......

233: Speaker Asylum, RE: "...Deus Ex Machina, a pro audio active monitor company..." (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-20, 20:42:22 (71.251.206.57)
I'm more a car person but that is one gorgeous looking, sexy bike. .......

234: Speaker Asylum, RE: Thank you! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-17, 09:26:12 (71.251.206.57)
Do the composites offer constrained layer damping? I thought for CDR the glue between 2 panels must be one that never completely gets hard so micro movement between 2 layers occurs with resonance. My .......

235: Speaker Asylum, RE: High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-16, 19:31:40 (71.251.206.57)
The simplest and probably cheapest I can think of is one Bud Fried told me about when he was still importing the IMF Monitor speaker. Build out of conventional good grade MDF(probably with internal ri .......

236: Speaker Asylum, RE: High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-16, 00:02:13 (71.251.206.57)
Much too hard to do without great experience. Plus I have to believe it's a compromise, a good one perhaps but minimizing resonance makes more sense to me. A resonance is a time problem as well as a c .......

237: Speaker Asylum, RE: High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-15, 19:20:29 (71.251.206.57)
Thanks, so far, for ALL the suggestions. I do appreciate all of them. .......

238: Speaker Asylum, RE: So is it a fashion material or lack of resonances you seek? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-15, 19:19:14 (71.251.206.57)
Performance is key but I'm retired so economy is also a factor. .......

239: Speaker Asylum, RE: High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-15, 19:17:29 (71.251.206.57)
I remembered the Richlite discussion after you reminded me here and ordered their sample kit. It should be here in a week or two. .......

240: Speaker Asylum, RE: Concrete - Like Rauna Speakers of Sweden .............. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-15, 19:15:24 (71.251.206.57)
Concrete would be too complex for just 2 small LS3/5a size cabinets. Plus, like all materials, it too is resonant. John Crabbe, the great editor of Hi Fi News in the 60s and 70s built large concrete b .......

241: Speaker Asylum, RE: Aluminium... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-15, 19:01:36 (71.251.206.57)
Aluminum on its own is highly resonant. It requires some form of constrained layer damping like Magico uses. Plus it's harder to hire some one to do two custom enclosures. But thanks for the effort. : .......

242: Speaker Asylum, High End Mini Monitor Cabinet Material? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-14, 15:52:47 (71.251.206.57)
I often fantasize designing speakers. My latest thought is a mini monitor about the size of the Wilson Tune Tot. It's meant to be all out except for size, of course, one that if commercial(I have no t .......

243: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Double Stacked Heil AMT (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-06-11, 20:55:23 (71.251.206.57)
I assume you rebalanced to maintain octave to octave balance with double the Heil drivers. Plus, just a detail, but it seems you were very conservative with your higher crossover point since two Heil .......

244: Speaker Asylum, RE: If you are COMPLAINING because a speaker is huge and ugly, you need your audiophile credentials revoked! ;) nt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-20, 20:46:02 (71.251.206.57)
I love it. .......

245: Speaker Asylum, RE: Seems look is Appropriate for playing Also Sprach Zarathustra (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-17, 13:28:00 (71.251.206.57)
The amplifier is for the woofers. You supply the amp for the Heil section. .......

246: Speaker Asylum, RE: Arion Apollo is just so huge and ugly (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-17, 13:26:41 (71.251.206.57)
It has a single digital crossover from the Heil drivers to the dynamic woofers. The Heil drivers run for 7 octaves. Styling is a personal thing. They are big. They are simple. sort of Miesian and I do .......

247: Speaker Asylum, RE: Been 10 years it seems but sure the units were Air Squezers top to bottom (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-17, 05:41:15 (71.251.206.57)
The bass is sort of a squeezer but it's mechanically different than a Heil. They did it to relate to the Heil but couldn't do it the same way. It isn't a folded diaphragm like a Heil as I recall but s .......

248: Speaker Asylum, RE: No Crossover? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-16, 19:08:16 (71.251.206.57)
No, the Heild drivers are mounted as a tall line source and are crossed from the woofers there and run til they roll off supersonically. It's a 2 way system. .......

249: Speaker Asylum, RE: ESS has shown one off and on at audio shows for 15 years (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-16, 09:49:28 (71.251.206.57)
Apples and oranges. The Arion has no crossover from 150 Hz up and unique dipole woofers below. And it works. The woofers on the ESS are not really Heils. And like you said it doesn't really exist. The .......

250: Speaker Asylum, RE: where is it? link? /nt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-16, 07:46:52 (71.251.206.57)
https://www.arionaudio.com .......

251: Speaker Asylum, An Almost Full Range Heil Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-15, 20:57:53 (71.251.206.57)
Heil tweeters are hot now. But how about a Heil speaker that covers the range from about 150Hz to above 20 Khz without crossovers with dipole dynamic drivers for the lower 3 octaves. Plus add in digit .......

252: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Reed 3P tonearm - Recommendation for type of wood requested (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-15, 20:48:43 (71.251.206.57)
Every material has resonances and colorations. I suspect this is especially true of wood arms. Part of the art of audio is picking your colorations, the ones that especially don't offend you. Unfortun .......

253: Speaker Asylum, RE: is there a reason for spinning vinyl? For the Seniors? /nt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-13, 17:47:09 (71.251.206.57)
But it's young people spurring vinyl sales. Plus some listeners validly prefer the sound of good vinyl over digital. .......

254: Speaker Asylum, RE: New Watt/Puppy (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-11, 22:42:18 (71.251.206.57)
Interesting that Sasha was a renaming of the old, original Watt/Puppy series and that looking at the new Watt/Puppy and it's drivers it sort of a Sasha Junior. .......

255: Speaker Asylum, RE: New Watt/Puppy (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-11, 21:03:05 (71.251.206.57)
That's a definitive answer. Is it meant for everyone? .......

256: Speaker Asylum, RE: Foolish Question to Ask Here.................. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-10, 20:52:40 (71.251.206.57)
Glad it helped. It was a good time for me to be a bit off. .......

257: Speaker Asylum, New Watt/Puppy (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-10, 19:12:05 (71.251.206.57)
After over a decade the Watt/Puppy is back and judging by the description it is a V series speaker. I noticed on the Wilson site under floor standers it is listed under the Sasha V and the Yvette, the .......

258: Speaker Asylum, Foolish Question to Ask Here.................. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-10, 18:58:36 (71.251.206.57)
This kind of question gets a zillion answers all of which sound different and are to the taste of the replier. This leaves you usually more confused than when you started. I'd give you my choice but I .......

259: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Drivers for existing cabinet (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-05-01, 13:39:05 (71.251.206.57)
Putting new drivers in an old cabinet is almost as bad as throwing a dart blindfolded when all you know is the direction to throw. Bass response, both quality and roll off point is totally linked to c .......

260: K&K Audio / Lundahl Transformers, RE: To friends and former customers of KandKAudio (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-29, 18:01:16 (71.251.206.57)
I spent 3 days at CES Vegas in 2001 in the VAC/PipeDreams room and got ot know Kevin fairly well in those 3 days; he was easy to get to know. It was enough. I miss him. I didn't know it then but I owe .......

261: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnepan 3.6 height (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-27, 19:55:28 (71.251.206.57)
One advantage of a planar driver is it has much less vertical dispersion than dynamic drivers so the affect of floor and ceiling reflections is significantly minimized compared to box speakers. ::: TO .......

262: Vintage Asylum, RE: A jump into the vintage (nostalgia) pool... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-27, 19:52:31 (71.251.206.57)
Stacking speakers produces comb filtering at upper frequencies. It can sound impressive in a way but it muddles sound in a subtle way. I once compared double Advents to an IMF Studio 2 speaker decades .......

263: Vinyl Asylum, Decca 4RC (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-24, 10:02:57 (71.251.206.57)
I have a VPI HW-19 MK4 with a Fidelity Research FR64fx arm. I also have an old Decca 4RC cartridge and recall many years ago how dynamic Deccas were. I'm curious to try using my 4RC. I'd probably purc .......

264: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-21, 20:53:50 (71.251.206.57)
Since this discussion is going on I'll add to it. First a quasi is just that quasi. It's a planar. Second most Maggie planars panels are single ended, magnets on just one side. This means as the move .......

265: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-19, 19:25:14 (71.251.206.57)
You're correct. ESLs are exactly the same. I didn't include them just to make the discussion simpler. ESLs are planars. .......

266: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-19, 19:23:53 (71.251.206.57)
Mass matters when starting and stopping. But why do these discussions only measure mass. Years ago I described a drag race between a VW Beetle and a Chevrolet 409(1960s guys). And, of course the VW wo .......

267: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-17, 19:50:55 (71.251.206.57)
Ribbons, because of the way they are made move more easily than planars that have limitations as they move since they are being stretched which fights movement. But they handle power better than ribbo .......

268: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-15, 20:46:42 (71.251.206.57)
That's probably true about their top tweeter which is a ribbon and very good. I thought you were referring to their other drivers, all of which are planar and not ribbons, not even their quasi ribbons .......

269: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Modern Magnepan Construction (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-14, 21:11:30 (71.251.206.57)
not if the material is clamped well between the 2 portions. .......

270: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-14, 21:10:13 (71.251.206.57)
It's a planar, not a ribbon if it's supported on the sides and the displacement of the diaphragm is different between a ribbon and a planar. .......

271: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Magnapan Quasi Vs. True Ribbon (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-13, 20:46:59 (71.251.206.57)
What's most significant of a true ribbon is it's only supported top and bottom and stretched loosely so there is little resistance by the tautly stretched ribbon membrane. This is unlike a planar(or q .......

272: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-07, 11:22:37 (71.251.206.57)
probably more costly alternative. by the way I believe the only way an amp can make a speaker more dynamic is if it's more linear than the amp it's replacing, I once had a great demo from a single amp .......

273: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-07, 02:51:56 (71.251.206.57)
Reviews of active and passive ATC 50 speakers almost always favor active version even after praising the passive version. You seem to misunderstand how crossover loads affect an amplifier's performanc .......

274: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-06, 19:53:21 (71.251.206.57)
I expect the active ATC will still sound better since the Devialet will have to drive the crossover load while the ATC amps only have to drive the coice coils and the load is split among 3 amps. ::: T .......

275: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Odd imbalance (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-06, 19:50:12 (71.251.206.57)
It's only visually imbalanced since line sources have little vertical dispersion once they are long enough which the tweeters are. So all the drivers have essentially the same vertical dispersion whic .......

276: Speaker Asylum, RE: Dynamics (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-05, 19:25:30 (71.251.206.57)
I have great trust in Gordon Holt's ears, even from years ago. He did many live recordings with no compression and he told me that ATC 50A speakers were the only ones he had used that reproduced his w .......

277: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Why the half height tweeters? -nt (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-05, 19:20:49 (71.251.206.57)
The tweeters are long enough unless you sit on the floor. .......

278: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Class whatever change (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-05, 19:18:22 (71.251.206.57)
Unless you have one of the single ended Pass amps your Pass class A amps are not pure class A but super rich class A/B amps that admittedly are rarely out of class A except on large peaks. ::: TOPIC:: .......

279: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-04, 19:15:29 (71.251.206.57)
I know and like the ATC 40A a lot. I had a pair for a month and reviewed them for Stereo Times. The right direction and way better than most but I want more. .......

280: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-04, 19:12:45 (71.251.206.57)
Subs are not what makes for excitement for me. Dynamic linearity is my goal. Subs need not be linearly dynamic and it's such a small, albeit intersting, portion of the band width. .......

281: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-04, 19:10:04 (71.251.206.57)
Amps make a difference. The question is is it better or just different ordo you just like it better(a totally valid personal decision). Better is harder to judge given our limited measurements and per .......

282: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-03, 20:48:29 (71.251.206.57)
In cars it's a trade off, at least for passenger cars. Many cars, even performance cars are under square today(longer stroke). .......

283: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-03, 20:46:29 (71.251.206.57)
Separate ATC amps get very good reviews, not spectacular but they are far from 6 figure amps. But you also have to include that we are talking about active speakers with 2 special advantages both spea .......

284: Speaker Asylum, RE: Dynamics (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-02, 06:06:09 (71.251.206.57)
Amps do compress but speakers are probably the greatest culprit. .......

285: Speaker Asylum, RE: Don't Dismiss What May Be Helpful Advice! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-02, 04:29:55 (71.251.206.57)
Actually suggestions are mostly for their favorites. I foolishly hoped for primarily feedback with explanations to see how my thoughts aligned with what others thought. I'll never do that again. ::: T .......

286: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sorry to differ, but... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-02, 03:53:16 (71.251.206.57)
The reason human voice was 1 and 2 was we are so familiar with it. Piano was the first musical instrument because of the awesome dynamics like sudden 30 dB peaks that strained most systems especially .......

287: Speaker Asylum, RE: As long as you're... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 20:47:35 (71.251.206.57)
Why does someone always think they have to switch the subject, in this case ATC speakers, when all I wanted was intelligent thoughts on the ATC speakers? .......

288: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sorry to differ, but... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 20:42:12 (71.251.206.57)
I asked about feedback about the ATC 50A speakers because I hoped to get reasoned thoughts on their sound, what people thought they did well and didn't do well. I have experience for decades with spe .......

289: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 13:13:48 (71.251.206.57)
I expect goosebumps when the recording has them. For any audio gear, especially speakers I find that dynamic linearity is the most important factor to me. I don't mean the ability to play loud cleanly .......

290: Speaker Asylum, RE: Interesting, but common phenomenon around here (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 13:10:43 (71.251.206.57)
I wasn't trying to be dismissive. I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I was explaining where I come from, what my audio tastes are. Every listener has the right to choose equipment that pleases them. .......

291: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 08:13:47 (71.251.206.57)
Thanks. I look for accuracy over 'musicality'. I believe great recordings should be reproduced to be great, good ones to sound good and if bad ones don't sound poor we're not talking about high fideli .......

292: Speaker Asylum, RE: ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-04-01, 08:11:19 (71.251.206.57)
They are expensive but not ultra so. Given the current costs of high end too often into 6 figures these are almost middle priced. And they include the amps which is a positive for me since I believe a .......

293: Speaker Asylum, ATC50A Active Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-31, 20:00:06 (71.251.206.57)
Just looking for feedback from ATC50A(the active version only). I know that it was Gordon Holt's favorite speaker. He bought a pair. .......

294: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: What crossover point do you use for your Magnepan 3.6R with a powered subwoofer? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-24, 19:48:10 (71.251.206.57)
Rolling off your amp(making a high pass filter) adds another factor to the design>it allows much greater choice in choosing the crossover to the subs(and allows more optimal choice and improves the ma .......

295: Speaker Asylum, RE: Great speakers. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-24, 19:43:15 (71.251.206.57)
ATC makes great speakers. They would be even better with heroic cabinet construction(as would any good speaker). .......

296: Speaker Asylum, RE: You might try a Hsu Research sub that has your requirements. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-15, 20:36:42 (71.251.206.57)
I lived with the sC40A powered version for a month and it's hard to beat an active version for similar money for a speaker and amp.I wrote a review for Stereo Times. By the way the last speaker Gordon .......

297: General Asylum, RE: Color Me Perfect (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-11, 20:38:51 (100.1.131.65)
I agree. The only reasonable definition of accuracy begins at the input signal. Accuracy is minimal change at the speaker output complicated bythe multiple combinations of possible errors. And that, o .......

298: General Asylum, Color Me Perfect (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-03-10, 20:37:32 (100.1.131.65)
A friend of mine, Murray Zeligman, once wrote an article called "Color Me Perfect' since perfect accuracy is way off and many audiophiles really don't want accuracy anyway. .......

299: Speaker Asylum, RE: More on AR woofers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-29, 20:43:02 (100.1.131.65)
In the 60s if you had a problem with an AR product they would tell you to ship it to them. If you didn't have an AR shipping box they would send you one free and fix your product and return it paying .......

300: Critic's Corner, RE: Unfair magazine reviews (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-17, 18:42:32 (100.1.131.65)
If a system sounds great at a show it probably is. If it doesn't you don't know why. Never dismiss a product at a show only. There are too many things that can go wrong. It always irks me when reviewe .......

301: Speaker Asylum, RE: Who is buying these 50 year old referb JBL L100 for $2400? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-16, 20:49:15 (100.1.131.65)
I sold L100s in the 70s at a bait and switch Philadelphia area chain, Wall To Wall Sound. And Dynaco A25s destroyed them. .......

302: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Some questions about cartridges for the AR XA turntable (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-15, 19:46:24 (100.1.131.65)
The arm is better than its reputation. A problem can occur with record warps. The arm has dampening as it drops. If the arm is lifted by record warp the stylus lifts slightly from the groove because t .......

303: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Hybrid Series Parallel Speaker Wiring.... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-12, 20:46:48 (100.1.131.65)
Remember negative and positive speaker connections are just conventions basically. The signal is AC and it goes in both directions essentially equally. therefore to maintain balance both negative and .......

304: Speaker Asylum, RE: Do you honestly think KEF LS50 is... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-10, 20:52:51 (100.1.131.65)
Sounds like you don't like them. What similarly priced and sized speakers do you like? .......

305: Speaker Asylum, RE: Can you identify these JBL's? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-10, 20:50:27 (100.1.131.65)
They, especially the drivers look too cheap to be JBLs. .......

306: Speaker Asylum, RE: Parts Express announces Woofer Replacement online Tool (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-09, 20:49:24 (100.1.131.65)
It doesn't seem to take into account things like resonant frequency, VAS, Qts of the driver so I suspect it will do an OK job but not a precise one and it could end up way off. .......

307: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: There is no winner (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-09, 20:41:57 (100.1.131.65)
There is a winner since there will be sonic differences but it differs for each audiophile. So I'm basically agreeing with you in a way. .......

308: General Asylum, RE: Why one song makes me emotional... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-07, 20:43:18 (100.1.131.65)
Priscilla Herdman 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda', a sweet voice against the story of World War I battle at Gallipoli makes the words even more frightening. The First time by almost any singer, .......

309: Speaker Asylum, RE: Magico M9s $750,000 speakers! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-05, 20:49:07 (100.1.131.65)
My friend Murray Zeligman once wrote an article - Color Me Perfect. By the way I owned a pair and liked them a lot. I just don't think your comparison made sense. .......

310: Speaker Asylum, RE: Magico M9s $750,000 speakers! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-04, 20:41:43 (100.1.131.65)
LS3/5A's are nice speakers albeit with limited poor, boomy bass and limited dynamics as well as a dip in the midrange. Control yourself. .......

311: Tubes Asylum, RE: A tube journey with lesson learned, Re; KT88 & KT150 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-02-01, 20:44:22 (100.1.131.65)
Your comment about screen drive and transformers reminded me that the Melos 400 amp had a damping factor of 20 meaning it had very small interaction with speaker impedances that cause frequency respon .......

312: Tubes Asylum, RE: A tube journey with lesson learned, Re; KT88 & KT150 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-31, 20:52:25 (100.1.131.65)
And the Berning designed Audionics BA150 was rated at 150 watts with similar tubes although that rating was with only 100 volts AC. The amp put out 225 watts at higher AC. I also know from a friend wh .......

313: Speaker Asylum, RE: I always wanted to hear some Shahinian speakers... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-29, 20:57:23 (100.1.131.65)
It's not surprising they're good on Classical music. That's what he listened to and certainly used primarily when designing speakers. I recall going into his rooms at the old(wonderful) Chicago CES sh .......

314: Speaker Asylum, RE: I always wanted to hear some Shahinian speakers... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-29, 20:56:12 (100.1.131.65)
It's not surprising they're good on Classical music. That's what he listened to and certainly used primarily when designing speakers. I recall going into his rooms at the old(wonderful) Chicago CES sh .......

315: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: I agree with PPT (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-23, 02:47:07 (100.1.131.65)
My friend was concerned with taking as much load as possible off the Quads so he could push the overall system harder and handle large transients. .......

316: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Stacked Quad ESL-57 with high pass?? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-22, 20:48:02 (100.1.131.65)
I only heard it once for a few hours. I was impressed. My friend was very good technically with speaker design including things like dispersion and low distortion. By the way I was surprised when he t .......

317: Critic's Corner, RE: Correct--you can't go wrong by disregarding that claim... and more (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-22, 20:44:55 (100.1.131.65)
About 20 years ago Melos made 400 watt triode, tube monoblocks for $10,000. Some dealers asked them to put a new, thicker front plate on the amps, call them a MK 2 model and double the price saying th .......

318: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Stacked Quad ESL-57 with high pass?? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-21, 20:55:12 (100.1.131.65)
I've heard the ESL-63 with a high pass at 300 Hz still maintaining the ESL magic but with much improved dynamics. In this case God is in the details of how well you did it(and the design of the bass s .......

319: Tubes Asylum, RE: Agree (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-21, 20:52:14 (100.1.131.65)
Hi Gary. It's been decades but I recall some good fun at Murray Zeligman's. .......

320: Critic's Corner, RE: Belt and suspenders... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-21, 20:50:01 (100.1.131.65)
I am a fan of a closed box. And I believe over the decades means just that. no passive radiators which are basically sonic wise a port substitute. And done well they are a good substitute but not a tr .......

321: Critic's Corner, RE: IMHO, the 25Hz number does not add up (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-21, 07:53:07 (100.1.131.65)
Just curious why do you use the term sealed box with passive radiators? Sealed box usually implies 'infinite baffle'. .......

322: Tubes Asylum, RE: A tube journey with lesson learned, Re; KT88 & KT150 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-20, 20:50:01 (100.1.131.65)
I was told a few years ago by the owner/designer of very good tube amps that the KT88 tubes were significantly more linear that the newer KT type tubes. Linearity is king when it comes to fidelity. :: .......

323: Critic's Corner, RE: Crystal Cable Minissimo Forte Loudspeaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-20, 20:45:26 (100.1.131.65)
It doesn't make sense to me. To have low bass fundamental to it is a low resonance frequency for the bass driver. This rare in such a small driver if it even exists. You'd have to make it a heavy cone .......

324: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Misson 774SM tonearm value? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-19, 20:49:19 (100.1.131.65)
I once spent an evening with the designer of the original Mission 774 tone arm. He was an old friend of a best friend. He was not an audiophile and had never designed an audio product before the arm . .......

325: Speaker Asylum, SEAS KING RO4Y Mk III (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-19, 00:03:42 (100.1.131.65)
Has any one built and/or heard the SEAS KING RO4Y Mk III speaker kit. Any feedback greatly appreciated as to building difficulty and sonic performance. .......

326: Speaker Asylum, RE: The usual metric is, "Parts and Labor x 500%" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-17, 20:50:31 (100.1.131.65)
I recall Bud Fried(IMF and Fried speakers) telling me decades ago that times five was really good and that many speakers(more than electronics) had a larger margin. I suspect that's still true. ::: TO .......

327: Speaker Asylum, RE: The usual metric is, "Parts and Labor x 500%" (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-17, 20:48:00 (100.1.131.65)
Recall it can be 3 sets of hands, manufacturer, independent rep and then dealer. .......

328: Vintage Asylum, RE: AR-3s need help (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-17, 20:44:36 (100.1.131.65)
By the way when you get the mids and tweeters working the mid points on the potentiometers are actually not flat. The mid is down from the woofer and the tweeter is further down from the mid dome. Aco .......

329: General Asylum, RE: Apart from everything else, the guy was semi-literate. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-13, 21:02:41 (100.1.131.65)
Certainly not the way I'd do things John but I'd never discus the sound of a system I've never heard. I always am disturbed by reviewers who knock the sound of a system at a show where you never know .......

330: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Jim Winey (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-12, 19:44:02 (100.1.131.65)
One of the iconic members of the audio community for over 5 decades. .......

331: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: 4-way source selector? (For a preamp.) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-09, 20:42:28 (100.1.131.65)
DB Systems makes a very nice external box with multiple inputs that just takes up one input on your preamp. It has 5 inputs. .......

332: Vintage Asylum, RE: Dynaco ST-150 pictures (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-07, 20:52:07 (100.1.131.65)
I built an ST150 in the mid 70s and eventually blew it up too playing with the power supply. But before that when I picked the amp up I asked about adding power supply capacitance and was told by Dyna .......

333: Critic's Corner, RE: Frequency response is sooooo 30 years ago (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-07, 20:45:29 (100.1.131.65)
The most important factor in making a good recording sound live is dynamic linearity, linear changes in level relative to in put from micro to mini to midi to macro and as consistent as possible over .......

334: Speaker Asylum, RE: Tube amplifier for KEF 104AB (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-06, 20:43:49 (100.1.131.65)
It always depends on the system, the environment(especially vibration feed) how much of a problem reflex unloading is. But the potential is always there. .......

335: Critic's Corner, RE: Frequency response is sooooo 30 years ago (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-06, 20:37:32 (100.1.131.65)
Of your critical measurements I'd put impulse response at the top. .......

336: Speaker Asylum, RE: Seeking comments about Tannoy Canterbury and York (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-05, 22:44:46 (100.1.131.65)
I've had hours listening to a 15" Tannoy(Canterbury) I believe with the latest McIntosh MC275 amps in mono. They surprised in a very good way with a slightly forward, detailed sound and marvelous bass .......

337: Critic's Corner, RE: Wilson vs. Klipsch (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-04, 19:46:45 (100.1.131.65)
I assume your question is rhetorical. John's measurements are among the most exhaustive of any published. The questions are. How do you use them and value each individual one? Which are the most relev .......

338: Speaker Asylum, RE: That seems to be what Jeff Rowland thought (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-03, 19:02:32 (100.1.131.65)
Edgar Villchur patented acoustic suspension. It was challenged and after some period Edgar gave up saying it wasn't worth the effort. Of course by that time 2/3 of the market was acoustic suspension(b .......

339: Speaker Asylum, RE: You mean Dahlquist invented L-brackets? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-03, 18:57:44 (100.1.131.65)
Just for this particular application. I was amazed. I, like I'm sure many of us, assumed the patent had something to do with tile alignment. I suspect that was intended for advertising purposes. We us .......

340: Speaker Asylum, RE: Tube amplifier for KEF 104AB (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-03, 18:54:37 (100.1.131.65)
The KEF 104AB bass loading is a passive radiator which is basically a port substitute. And all ported woofers do become unloaded below woofer box resonance meaning they are visibly affected by record .......

341: Speaker Asylum, RE: Patents have been granted for far sillier things/Dahlquist Patent (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2024-01-02, 20:40:15 (100.1.131.65)
You have to read what a patent is about. Sometimes it's not evident. The Dahlquist patent for the DQ 10 is a great case in point. Given it's design and hoopla one would assume it was for the time alig .......

342: Speaker Asylum, RE: Reference 3A DeCapo I kevlar midwoofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-25, 22:53:53 (100.1.131.65)
You are correct because those 3A drivers were designed to roll off nicely without a low pass filter. But I don't think they'd sell me a driver unless I could fake 3A ownership of defective speakers. P .......

343: Speaker Asylum, RE: Exactly! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-25, 22:50:17 (100.1.131.65)
Flat does sound bright on a speaker because the power response on a good speaker stays steady as response goes up but because dispersion narrows this steady power is concentrated in a smaller angle ma .......

344: Speaker Asylum, RE: SEAS A26 Woofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-21, 13:42:32 (100.1.131.65)
Good info that I already knew. But you ignore the main point. I want to build a 2 way without a low pass on the woofer, preferably one that works in a closed box. The important factor is no crossover .......

345: Speaker Asylum, RE: Are you kidding.... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-20, 16:34:39 (100.1.131.65)
I understand. I do know something about drivers and speakers. I just want to know if there are drivers to make a super A26. There seem to be multiple tweeters I could investigate. But I'm unable to fi .......

346: Speaker Asylum, RE: Even if purchased with finished cabinets, you are under $2K... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-20, 11:06:05 (100.1.131.65)
It's wonderful for the money but I was curious about doing the same minimal crossover design but even better than the A26. .......

347: Speaker Asylum, RE: historically it was the default! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-20, 11:04:36 (100.1.131.65)
Thanks but unfortunately he doesn't show frequency response so I don't know how it performs at the top of his drivers' band width. .......

348: Speaker Asylum, SEAS A26 Woofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-19, 23:02:25 (100.1.131.65)
I'm fascinated by the SEAS A26 kit, especially the woofer thar appears not to ring at the top of its bandwidth and rolls off naturally with no crossover. I know this is extremely rare and have not bee .......

349: Speaker Asylum, RE: Thanks for the comments (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-17, 20:39:23 (100.1.131.65)
Concrete is not as obvious a good cabinet material as it seems. Like everything it too resonates. In the 70s, John Crabbe, then the editor of Hi Fi News in England built large bass horns into his home .......

350: Speaker Asylum, RE: Better drivers and crossovers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-12, 20:44:25 (100.1.131.65)
Wish it were that simple. As we learn more about how to build better drivers(and crossovers) cabinets become more important sonically as resonances in cabinets become easier to hear. And cabinet reson .......

351: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Jack Casady... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-06, 20:31:49 (100.1.131.65)
Totally agree about Balin. JA was great in all renditions but Balin only made it much greater. .......

352: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Great Powerful Bass (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-12-04, 20:38:37 (100.1.131.65)
To hear great bass assuming it's on the recording and your speakers play low bass frequencies you need to play loud. Our ears roll off badly in the bass at normal listening levels. Eighty five dB aver .......

353: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Quad ESL 57 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-27, 20:41:32 (100.1.131.65)
I heard this modded ESL 57 a few years ago at the Capital Audio Show. Needless to say it wasn't a long audition but I definitely was impressed. I can't recall the modifier's name but I know he has exp .......

354: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Quad ESL 57 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-26, 19:39:03 (100.1.131.65)
I heard a pair of ESL 57s without back damping. They sounded good. I mentioned that the designer wanted the damping there. The exhibiter answered that wasn't as much for control of sound as for proble .......

355: General Asylum, RE: Colouration vs neutrality at discomfort volume threshold (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-26, 19:35:18 (100.1.131.65)
Neutrality always comes first if it's fidelity and not musicality. More pertinent to listening level is Fletcher/Munson and the change in bass and treble response with level. .......

356: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Preamps at/over $50k - lots and lots of wretched excess! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-26, 19:32:39 (100.1.131.65)
Maybe it's noticeably better; maybe it's not. But everyone seems to be hoping it's not true. .......

357: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Anyone hear the new Quad ESL-2812 at CAF? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-20, 20:54:08 (100.1.131.65)
It was one of the stars of the show although I was told by friends not from the 1st row. .......

358: Critic's Corner, RE: I've noticed the rave reviews (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-20, 20:51:30 (100.1.131.65)
It looks like Kessler is capable of enjoying both good apples and good oranges. I also think a long term reviewer will become well acquainted with many manufacturers, especially those that produce pro .......

359: Tubes Asylum, RE: Listening to music through "solid state" is like . . . (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-18, 21:04:48 (100.1.131.65)
false, same is true for tubes, just different artists and paints. .......

360: Tubes Asylum, RE: Listening to music through tubes is like . . . (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-17, 19:55:14 (100.1.131.65)
I use a tube line stage and solid state amp. But I'd say listening with solid state is like listening through tinted glasses, just a different tint. Indeed every amp is tinted , tube or solid state, j .......

361: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Sunfire Amp (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-16, 21:19:39 (100.1.131.65)
The Sunfire is a high current amp. It doubles in power from 300 watts at 8 ohms to 600 at 4 ohms and I believe again at1200 watts at 2 ohms. Be sure to use the voltage outputs on speakers that need hi .......

362: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Sunfire Amp (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-15, 20:46:25 (100.1.131.65)
Iam very successfully. By the way according to the Sunfire white paper and a good friend who has built lots of electronics the sliding power supply of the Sunfire allows the output devices to operate .......

363: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Capital Audio Fest Nov 10-12, 2023 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-14, 20:43:54 (100.1.131.65)
I heard it about 10 years ago when I was supposed to be the audio expert for a reporter(who it turned out was deaf in one ear) of a New Jersey paper. It was superb then. It's better now and more user .......

364: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Sunfire Amp (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-14, 20:39:27 (100.1.131.65)
If I recall correctly the current output has a resistor in series which will significantly reduce the damping factor. The voltage output has a much higher damping factor which will control the bass re .......

365: Critic's Corner, RE: Does anyone remember "Hoffman's Iron Law"? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-14, 20:36:39 (100.1.131.65)
What are U saying? It's not clear to me. .......

366: Critic's Corner, RE: Does anyone remember "Hoffman's Iron Law"? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-13, 20:45:18 (100.1.131.65)
I do remember Hoffman's law. I go back a bit before it was published. And that's what my comment said. .......

367: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Capital Audio Fest Nov 10-12, 2023 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-08, 20:50:36 (100.1.131.65)
It's a great show and even better this year. Worth going to if you can. .......

368: Critic's Corner, RE: Orangutan O/baby (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-08, 20:46:58 (100.1.131.65)
Other than they are both 2 ways the Devore and A25 are as different as 2 2 ways can be. The bass loadings are significantly different, ported for the DeVore and variovent for the A25. And the A25 has .......

369: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Is this audible? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-11-07, 19:00:19 (100.1.131.65)
Partly depends on which harmonics, 2nd or 3rd. Low 2nd and high 3rd might have a bad affect. But if it's 2nd, some listeners might prefer even higher 2nd. It makes a richer soud, vis a vis single ende .......

370: Speaker Asylum, RE: Your description is not isobaric (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-31, 20:53:50 (100.1.131.65)
You're correct. I have a set of Isobaric speakers that are a clone of the Dynaudio Consequence speaker. Basically an isobaric design is a way to get the same Q and bass extension in a smaller box. The .......

371: General Asylum, RE: A question (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-31, 20:38:55 (100.1.131.65)
BOTH!!! Why limit the fun? .......

372: General Asylum, RE: the company you keep (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-31, 20:38:04 (100.1.131.65)
Sorry Gordon Holt was there first. He just didn't have a term like Harry and he spoke more softly. But even Harry said he orginally began TAS to for Stereophile to become more regular. .......

373: General Asylum, RE: An observation (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-31, 20:35:03 (100.1.131.65)
You're totally correct. But it is an impossible dream to aim for even if we can't get there. .......

374: Speaker Asylum, RE: in fairness, the 'acoustic suspension' alignment is quite forgiving of mismatches (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-29, 18:50:56 (100.1.131.65)
I agree but why end up with any mismatch? You're correct about finding acoustic suspension drivers but I've found a few although I don't recall if they were acoustic suspension or just closed box. Not .......

375: Speaker Asylum, RE: My idea for a TOTALLY renovated KLH 20 loudspeaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-28, 21:15:35 (100.1.131.65)
Unless the drop in parts were designed as a whole for the boxes it won't work. Basically the only drop ins that would work are KLH replacement parts. .......

376: Speaker Asylum, RE: My idea for a TOTALLY renovated KLH 20 loudspeaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-27, 20:46:51 (100.1.131.65)
I'm not sure why you're doing this. The box is ordinary commercial, nothing special and you're using it to make a completely new speaker. And I see you're using an acoustic suspension type new woofer .......

377: Critic's Corner, RE: My playlist of "Guilty Pleasure" Tracks (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-23, 20:39:58 (100.1.131.65)
I loved you included Phil Ochs, a writer/singer who often achieved greatness and has faded a bit into history. My favorite piece of his is The Crucifixion, rarely recorded but the version by Jim(his c .......

378: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "I suspect the Magnepan arm has very good bass for a unipivot." ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-22, 20:43:23 (100.1.131.65)
didn't know it used a ball race. the arm I played with, a Keith Monks also used a ball race which was why I mass loaded it knowing the point wouldn't be dulled. By the way the Keith Monks lifted of wi .......

379: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Is the Magnepan Unitrac tonearm still one of the ones to have for under a grand? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-21, 20:43:30 (100.1.131.65)
The Magnepan arm is a unipivot. One of the comments against unipivots is poorer bass than conventional arms. But if I'm not mistaken the area above the unipoint is extra heavy on this arm. I once expe .......

380: Speaker Asylum, RE: Interesting, but going against the speaker industry (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-20, 20:52:54 (100.1.131.65)
Bass is slow. The deep bass oscillates less than 100 times a second. What makes bass 'fast' is control of decay and that is a function of the Q of the system. If the Q is low the woofer stops faster a .......

381: Speaker Asylum, RE: Toe in (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-16, 20:53:10 (100.1.131.65)
I suspect it depends partly on position voicing and design of the speakers as they were being designed. It seems most speakers were designed for toe in since it puts the tweeter with narrow dispersion .......

382: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Questions of stacked four Quad ESL-57 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-13, 20:47:16 (100.1.131.65)
Perhaps a crazy thought but how about a good 4 channel amp for each side? .......

383: General Asylum, Off the subject - valchromat (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-09, 11:09:04 (100.1.131.65)
I know you are interested in speaker cabinet materials. Here's a new one to me(used in a 3 Square Audio speaker) called Valchromat. It seems to be a superior version of MDF, stronger, waterproof and w .......

384: General Asylum, RE: Those are intriguing, but are OB in the midrange only (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-06, 20:43:36 (100.1.131.65)
Not only in the midrange but crossover is at 500Hz which means the 5 bottom octaves(of 10 total octaves) are non dipole and then it's non-dipole at the tweeter. I've heard good dipole speakers recentl .......

385: Speaker Asylum, RE: Amp for KEF 104AB? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-03, 20:49:20 (100.1.131.65)
The woofer in a ported(passive radiator) speaker becomes uncoupled below resonance. This doesn't occur for closed boxes. The decoupling means the woofer is just flopping down there so significant ener .......

386: Speaker Asylum, RE: Amp for KEF 104AB? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-02, 20:44:48 (100.1.131.65)
Of course the 104ab is undamped at warp frequencies. It is a passive radiator loading which is just like a reflex loading(which it basically is) which is also unloaded at warp frequencies. ::: TOPIC:: .......

387: Speaker Asylum, RE: Amp for KEF 104AB? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-10-01, 20:49:47 (100.1.131.65)
Older drivers certainly handle less power than modern ones and the B200 is no exception. But the B200 in the KEF 104ab handles more power than the B200 used most of the time. This one has a larger mag .......

388: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sequerra in the house (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-30, 20:44:58 (100.1.131.65)
Saul Marantz was very important to high end audio in the old days. But he was not and audio designer at all. He was the man who got the best designers to work for him like Dick Sequerra. He did dip hi .......

389: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Pass labs warm up time (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-29, 20:43:38 (100.1.131.65)
my system uses a rare GeorgeMark Audio tube line stage with and MSB DAC board inside and a Sunfire amp. After an hour it is significantly sonically improved but it seems to take about 4 hours until it .......

390: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sonus Faber Carrara speaker stands (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-19, 20:55:08 (100.1.131.65)
They are made differently. They will vibrate differently. The question isn't whether the sound will change. It will. What matters is will you like it better. And that takes listening to both stands wh .......

391: Vinyl Asylum, RE: This turntable mat is NOT for the masses. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-19, 20:50:53 (100.1.131.65)
It's time to get used to this kind of product in audio. It's here to stay. If it offends you ignore it. What bothers me more(but probably shouldn't) is the waving of hands to describe why it works. he .......

392: Speaker Asylum, RE: As far as the suspended floors being a problem, I use concrete paving stones (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-18, 20:45:01 (100.1.131.65)
I'll second the concrete paving blocks for speakers , not just subs. I had problems with the sound of my main speakers on stands. Just took a chance with concrete caving blocks with significant improv .......

393: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I ended up in the same boat. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-11, 21:54:00 (100.1.131.65)
Talk about a DB Systems DB-1A, that's almost half a century old. I used one for years in the 70s and loved it. I sure wonder how it compares today. I assume if it replaced a Saga + it must still be a .......

394: Vintage Asylum, RE: True. I only talk Magnepan true ribbons, that advertising quasi-ribbon is bs (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-03, 16:25:32 (100.1.131.65)
I was friends with the Pipe Dreams designers and at one point they wanted to use the large Maggie ribbon tweeter but Maggie declined understandably. One friend thought it was the best tweeter availabl .......

395: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Should the listener be rubbed with vegetable oil on all surfaces too? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-02, 21:36:06 (100.1.131.65)
We now know microphonics are meaningful all over our systems. And Enid's construction probably improves them. The specific material choice and oil treatment may not matter. She may still have been ahe .......

396: Vintage Asylum, RE: The supertweeters don't do anything, they are crossover at 12-12.5k so (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-02, 21:30:31 (100.1.131.65)
The true ribbon Maggie tweeters in their top models were great. The planar(not ribbons) tweeters in their other speakers were not as good. .......

397: Vintage Asylum, RE: I knew George and Mark well, fun place to learn and talk and listen (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-02, 21:28:21 (100.1.131.65)
The 9 PM Wednesday beer parties were legendary but sane. I miss hanging around there that ended with the move of Melos to Las Vegas. .......

398: Vintage Asylum, RE: so I take it that you find the Piezo Tweeters to be "great" then (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-09-01, 20:46:54 (100.1.131.65)
I recall a number of mod kits for the treble of the DQ10. A friend of mine, George Bischoff(Melos, Pipedreams, etc.) told me he sold over 300 kits that replaced the piezo and tweeter dome with a plana .......

399: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: 3.6R crossover value question (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-29, 20:50:14 (100.1.131.65)
There will be a slight hole in the response with the larger value and a slight bump with the smaller one. I suspect you will hear both but both may be minor since I believe Magnaplanar uses slow slope .......

400: Vinyl Asylum, RE: VM540ML or ML140/OCC (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-29, 20:46:20 (100.1.131.65)
I've spent time with Harry Weisfeld using the VM540ML and he had nothing but great things to say about it. .......

401: Speaker Asylum, RE: Yes, designed for "pro" use but (like magic!) they sound even better on dedicated stands. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-28, 20:47:15 (100.1.131.65)
I knew that. Just wanted to clear up a thing none of us think about even after 50 years. And I haven't owned a pair of LS35a's(which had woofers destroyed by incompetent design of an Audio Research D1 .......

402: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Looking for solid state amp for Harbeth C7 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-27, 20:55:15 (100.1.131.65)
The 4 ohm rating of the PS Audio S300 makes no sense. If the minimum 4 ohm output is 300 watts minimum, then the minimum 8 ohs power must be at least 150 watts, not 140 watts as advertised. ::: TOPIC: .......

403: Speaker Asylum, RE: Help with Speaker stand height for the LS35a (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-26, 20:46:56 (100.1.131.65)
I've been following this discussion for a while. And while this doesn't really answer the question, I realized that these were meant to be second level on location monitors in tight spaces which means .......

404: Speaker Asylum, RE: If anyone needs an artisan-quality loudspeaker-cabinet builder... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-24, 20:42:23 (100.1.131.65)
Thanks John. If I ever build the speaker I have in my mind now I have someone to do proper cabinets. .......

405: General Asylum, RE: Pic of the Day (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-24, 20:38:45 (100.1.131.65)
That ranks with the writing on the shipping box from the first Pink Triangle turntables -useless if dropped - a direct challenge to your UPS drivers. .......

406: Speaker Asylum, RE: The biggest improvement in my system, by far ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-23, 20:57:09 (100.1.131.65)
Gordon Holt would have disagreed with you about the ATC 50A speakers. They were the last speaker he purchased with his own money. Gordon was an experienced recordist and told me they were one of the o .......

407: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Variable corrective feedback (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-19, 20:43:25 (100.1.131.65)
The old Audionics BA150 amp by David Berning had variable feedback in steps from 15 dB to 0 dB. I was demoed the speaker decades ago by David on a set of Precedent Audio Mod 3 transmission line speake .......

408: Speaker Asylum, RE: Waveforms (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-19, 08:27:27 (100.1.131.65)
Then his hearing is so poor fidelity doesn't matter and you are correct. .......

409: Speaker Asylum, RE: "The BBC Heritage"??? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-19, 08:26:12 (100.1.131.65)
That's still above 20 kHz and will affect the wave form below. .......

410: Speaker Asylum, RE: Built in subwoofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-18, 20:55:49 (100.1.131.65)
Listening without the subs probably unbalances the speaker making it sound thin. There probably is a high pass filter in the speaker to roll off the main drivers to integrate them with the subs. Unles .......

411: General Asylum, RE: "transparent" versus "colored"? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-18, 20:44:59 (100.1.131.65)
Don't forget the earliest factor in transparency and coloration, the one no audiophile has control of, the recording. If that's significantly flawed it's all over before it's started. And given that m .......

412: Speaker Asylum, RE: Waveforms (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-16, 21:30:16 (100.1.131.65)
Experienced ears are surprisingly acute. You're probably correct for the average person and even for the average audiophile but there are some that have trained themselves quite well. The question is .......

413: Speaker Asylum, RE: Waveforms (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-15, 21:35:31 (100.1.131.65)
So if the waveform at audible frequencies differ, it doesn't matter and we can't hear it even after years of listening seriously? I'm sure there have been tests that conclude this as you say. But I re .......

414: Speaker Asylum, RE: "The BBC Heritage"??? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-15, 21:31:10 (100.1.131.65)
by heritage I meant historical heritage and to be accurate let me restate that the BBC version of the 2 cubic foot box did not have a super tweeter. But the production speakers that were basically 'al .......

415: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Maybe for the same sort of reason some prefer tube amps (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-15, 21:15:17 (100.1.131.65)
That's true for you. Until there is a perfect amplifier taste will be involved in each audiophile's amp choice. And perhaps I should add that it may also depend on the difficulty of driving your favor .......

416: Speaker Asylum, RE: Density of Sound is an issue (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-14, 21:16:30 (100.1.131.65)
For what it's worth the last speakers Gordon Holt bought were active ATC 50 speakers. Gordon had a great ear and huge experience obviously given his decades in audio reviewing. But he also attended ma .......

417: Speaker Asylum, RE: The graphs are painfull,but most listeners wont hear it (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-14, 21:11:08 (100.1.131.65)
It's true many of us have serious listening loss in the top octave. But we don't listen to individual frequencies but complex wave forms that are a combination of all frequencies being produced at a g .......

418: Speaker Asylum, RE: "The BBC Heritage"??? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-14, 21:06:57 (100.1.131.65)
In a way the progenitors of the Harbeth HL1, the 1st Harbeth speaker were the Rogers LS3/6 and the Spendor BC1. When Rogers took on the license to build the speaker they asked if they could add a supe .......

419: Speaker Asylum, RE: Hartley (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-12, 21:13:14 (100.1.131.65)
As I stated Gordon did like the 220 MSG 50 years ago but remember this was in comparison with the speakers of the era. By the way the driver was a 2 way with a decoupled dust cap using a shorting coil .......

420: Speaker Asylum, RE: Sealed Sub - Sealing! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-12, 20:57:03 (100.1.131.65)
Totally second the advice to seal the holes totally air tight. .......

421: Speaker Asylum, RE: Moving Mass Vs. Detail (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-12, 05:34:58 (100.1.131.65)
Don't have numbers but the large gap needed so planars and electrostatics so the drivers don't hit the magnets or electrostatic elements means a very weak source. Those forces go down quickly with dis .......

422: Speaker Asylum, RE: Moving Mass Vs. Detail (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-12, 05:30:10 (100.1.131.65)
Fascinating driver. Always wanted to hear it but it's so rare, Magnetic suspension sounds interesting but why has it never been copied? Stereophile tested it in the 60s and it got a good review but no .......

423: Speaker Asylum, RE: Moving Mass Vs. Detail (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-11, 21:09:35 (100.1.131.65)
Acceleration is driven by power to weight ratio and the power of the magnetic field is way higher than the force of the magnets of a planar or electric field of an electrostatic. And this is especiall .......

424: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Spinning again (finally), and trying a conical stylus (long) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-10, 21:00:58 (100.1.131.65)
Just a guess but I wonder if Bob Fulton's(I knew him from his visits ti Gordon Holt in the 70s) choice of conical styli may be due to it being way easier to set up a conical pickup versus ellipticals .......

425: Speaker Asylum, RE: Silverline Audio Speaker Owners (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-07, 19:55:23 (100.1.131.65)
Reminds me of the stereo recordings made by Stokowski in the 30s with the Bell labs(one of the greatest scientific losses ever due to the split up of Ma Bell). But I don't believe the quantity was lar .......

426: General Asylum, RE: Caption challenge (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-07, 19:49:28 (100.1.131.65)
His Master's stereo voice. .......

427: General Asylum, RE: Technics cartridge (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-06, 20:49:59 (100.1.131.65)
Actually I wrote the 1st Stereophile review. In a sense it was discovered by my friend Murray Zeligman. He saw a 1 kHz square wave and frequency and separation curves for the Technics EPC 205 MK4 with .......

428: Speaker Asylum, North Creek Rhythm Speaker (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-05, 20:40:03 (100.1.131.65)
I just found in one of my many piles of stuff a booklet describing the North Creek Rhythm speaker. Design, parts choice etc. were carefully described. And the cabin is heroic in design even today. Eve .......

429: Speaker Asylum, RE: As far as I know, at least some of the staff at Danesian worked at ScanSpeak and SEAS (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-05, 20:34:06 (100.1.131.65)
I agree with you about the 120 Hz versus the 60 Hz to 90 Hz but why not control both regions. Then again a 1.2 Qts and 120 Hz bump is how the BBC balanced the LS3/5a so it didn't sound bass shy with f .......

430: Speaker Asylum, RE: I deal with a variety of such issues in my soon-to-be-published review... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-04, 21:13:57 (100.1.131.65)
I don't know this speakers. But a good designer will basically cure that rise with good crossover design. If it's still significant the crossover is flawed. .......

431: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What's spinning this weekend? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-04, 21:08:33 (100.1.131.65)
Bonnie Koloc, an almost unknown Chicago singer from Rush street in the 70s with a voice and timing and control that pisses me off when I hear the mega stars sing(when you can hear them with all the ch .......

432: General Asylum, RE: Wretched excess - tonearms (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-04, 21:04:52 (100.1.131.65)
You can hear the differences and what's wrong with wretched excess as long as there are also reasonable alternatives such as the Technics you mention? The world has always had super luxury objects for .......

433: Radio Road, RE: Scott 4312 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-08-04, 20:57:04 (100.1.131.65)
I recall the Scott tuner designer calling the 310E his magnum opus. But I believe it only lasted a year or two due to the advent of transistors being a big selling point. .......

434: Speaker Asylum, SEAS KingRO4Y Mk III (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-31, 06:55:52 (100.1.131.65)
Has anyone heard the SEAS KingRO4Y Mk III speaker who can describe what they heard and their overall feelings about it? .......

435: Speaker Asylum, RE: The Note Line Source (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-30, 21:00:32 (100.1.131.65)
You still don't want to put low frequencies into small drivers. They try to move anyway and the voice coils heat up more which changes their characteristics. A proper high pass is better. And I repeat .......

436: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Is it just me... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-30, 20:49:55 (100.1.131.65)
I've heard Harry Weisfeld of VPI use different equalization on records and make them sound better. It appears even though everyone claimed they used the standard RIAA curve some did it better than oth .......

437: Speaker Asylum, RE: The Note Line Source (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-28, 20:50:35 (100.1.131.65)
Thanks. I'll let my friend know who is considering trading a set of 21 Pipedreams for the note. A few comments. I knew Mark decades ago when he did Melos and Pipedreams. And he isn't smart, he's brill .......

438: General Asylum, RE: Ported or Infinite Baffle (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-27, 20:37:58 (100.1.131.65)
That statement seems to only make sense for a 2 way speaker. But in another sense you are correct even for pure woofers, at last for off the shelf designs. The VAST majority are designed for reflex bo .......

439: General Asylum, RE: Tannoy Westminster Royal always in fashion (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-26, 13:12:52 (100.1.131.65)
I don't know about construction quality but I recently heard 15" coax Tannoys for a long audition and they sounded superberb. .......

440: General Asylum, RE: those octogonals look like Philips (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-26, 13:09:30 (100.1.131.65)
A friend of mine, George Bischoff(Melos, Pipedreams) sold several hundred ribbon tweeter kits to replace the tweeter and piezo super tweeter. And I recall other similar mods for sale. .......

441: Speaker Asylum, RE: Just speakers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-25, 20:51:19 (100.1.131.65)
I really like the LS3/5a(at least the ones that really follow the BBC script) I find it an interesting combination of pluses and minuses. For mw its greatest flaw(and one many, many speakers also have .......

442: Speaker Asylum, RE: The Note Line Source (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-25, 20:45:40 (100.1.131.65)
You bring back grand old memories with the Pipe Dreams. I was best pals with the designers and hung with them for hours a week. So I'm pretty i ntimately functionally familiar with them and how they w .......

443: Speaker Asylum, RE: Haven't heard them but (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-25, 20:38:39 (100.1.131.65)
Intersting you mention them as I just heard the Russel IDS-25 today and was super impressed. .......

444: General Asylum, RE: You and I really need to hear one of Tom's synergy horns as well (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-25, 20:36:08 (100.1.131.65)
Just to throw another horse in the race, today I heard a full range 25 driver line source designed by Roger Russel that impressed me with its dynamics and sound stage and amount of ability to get insi .......

445: Speaker Asylum, The Note Line Source (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-24, 21:00:59 (100.1.131.65)
I have a good friend considering trading Pipe Dreams speakers for The Note line source speakers. I've never heard them although I'm very familiar with the designer and have only read very good things .......

446: General Asylum, RE: Thank You for the feedback (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-24, 20:56:01 (100.1.131.65)
I have a friend building horns(except for the bass, doesn't have the room) who is huge on measurements and what he has shown me is very impressive. Unfortunately he lives too far away. I would love to .......

447: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Old Sound Labs A2 speakers are great! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-23, 19:32:20 (100.1.131.65)
I recall the original Beveridges at Gordon Holt's place in the 70s. They were gorgous sounding but with no dynamic ability. I never heard later ones with built in dynamic woofers. I assume they were m .......

448: General Asylum, RE: Thank You for the feedback (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-23, 19:28:24 (100.1.131.65)
Horn loudspeakers that go into the bottom octave don't need to be large. They need to be huge. Plus it's best to keep them straight. So just as an example we're talking about over 10 feet long with a .......

449: General Asylum, RE: Ported or Infinite Baffle (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-22, 20:34:44 (100.1.131.65)
Closed box bass is all things being equal tighter and more detailed than reflex bass(or passive radiator bass which is essentially a port variation. But it is, again all things being equal 3 dB less e .......

450: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Who makes GaN FET Amps ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-21, 20:29:09 (100.1.131.65)
I know this gets repeated again and again but class D is not digital. It's analog. It's unfortunate it's called class D but D comes after C and class D amps came after class C circuits(which are not s .......

451: Speaker Asylum, RE: if you were going to 'seal' a paper cone woofer what would you use? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-19, 20:49:17 (100.1.131.65)
I was told that Elmers is PVA, poly vinyl acetate, the same shiny material used on Bextrene cones(like the LS3/5A, etc.) and on some paper cones to stop them from ringing. So I suspect the coating wil .......

452: General Asylum, RE: Class A Tube amp questions??? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-16, 20:43:10 (100.1.131.65)
Pure class A amps? Are you only speaking about SET amps? Many solid state push/pull class A amps are really super rich AB amps that are almost always in class A but eventually will get into class B as .......

453: General Asylum, RE: I can't say that I disagree! (Interesting content below!) (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-15, 21:03:09 (100.1.131.65)
I agree. It was like Ford and GM uniting but sort of staying seperate. I'm not the biggest ARC advocate(I have owned older ARC gear including one of the 1st 50 SP3 preamps) but over the years they've .......

454: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Who makes GaN FET Amps ? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-15, 20:53:18 (100.1.131.65)
There's probably more GaN amps. Merril Audio has been making 3 models for a few years. .......

455: Speaker Asylum, RE: "what are the differences between 12dB and 24dB?" ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-12, 21:09:17 (100.1.131.65)
I admit I wasn't clear. I didn't confuse the difference between phase and polarity. I assumed there wasn't phase adjustment available. And then if room constraints for sub position were involved, it w .......

456: Speaker Asylum, SEAS A26 Speaker Kit? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-12, 21:00:03 (100.1.131.65)
Does anyone have experience with the SEAS A26 speaker kit, especially how it performs. Any descriptions of its sonic characteristics, especially the low end and midrange would be appreciated. But the .......

457: Speaker Asylum, RE: "what are the differences between 12dB and 24dB?" ... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-10, 20:49:13 (100.1.131.65)
Actually the polarity can also be affected by the distance from the subs to the main drivers which is often significant since the best spot for subs and main speakers usually are different so it shoul .......

458: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Linn Sondek 50th Anniversary Edition (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-08, 21:06:43 (100.1.131.65)
The plinth sounds like a variation of Panzerholz wood. And while the anniversary edition is limited in numbers I'll be very surprised if the changes are not incorporated in a new top of the line Linn. .......

459: Speaker Asylum, RE: Thought you might find the 5db peak at 4700 to show up in wild mode (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-05, 13:03:43 (100.1.131.65)
you're right, The 5 dB peak should be handled. But isn't that why greta crossovers are never text book? Besides being crossovers they are equalizers for non-flat drivers which include almost all drive .......

460: General Asylum, RE: The class D amps sound different to the Devialet (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-04, 20:32:08 (100.1.131.65)
If I recall the Devialet amp uses class D differently than most class D amps. It only uses it for current similarly to the Quad 405 current dumping amp(where the class B amp is only used for current). .......

461: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Plinth for Thorens TD-124 (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-03, 20:31:08 (100.1.131.65)
Probably not as good as the newer custom plinths and probably difficult to find but over 50 years ago SME made a plinth that was typical SME quality that included a plexiglass cover. .......

462: Speaker Asylum, RE: I plan to try to cross over from the Purifi woofer-mid to the Fountek ribbon @3k (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-07-01, 19:11:39 (100.1.131.65)
It isn't just the order of a crossover that matters. The way the driver/crossover transitions to the roll off order is just, if not more, important. The Q of the crossover is important just as the Q o .......

463: Speaker Asylum, RE: Well, the natural XO frequency (-6dB) of the Purifi driver looks to be a little over 5.5kHz (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-30, 20:59:49 (100.1.131.65)
I'd never crossover that high. The dispersion of the Purifi and a tweeter at that point is way too different. One factor of the Purifi drivers is their large linear excursion. So I suspect they can be .......

464: Tubes Asylum, RE: Oops...time to change that tube (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-30, 20:53:17 (100.1.131.65)
A lot depends on the designer. I know David Berning gives his tubes 10,000 hours and knowing a bit about David that means at least 20,000 hours. His prototype Audionics BA159 was turned on in 1972 and .......

465: General Asylum, RE: Inventions that ruined audio (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-30, 20:48:24 (100.1.131.65)
I couldn't disagree with you more. There's no ideal in any of your categories. I had a friend write an article Color Me Perfect. We all choose the colorations that allow us to think things are right o .......

466: Speaker Asylum, RE: Kef R7 vs R7 Meta (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-27, 20:49:01 (100.1.131.65)
Probably not unless you are super critical. The consensus seems to be they are better but not enough you should trade in R7s right away. .......

467: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Quad ESL-57 plus (Swarm) subwoofer with high pass (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-27, 20:45:14 (100.1.131.65)
The main weakness of the 57s are their handling of dynamics. Your idea of adding subs will make a very significant improvement in their dynamic capabilities. If you employ a good electronic crossover .......

468: Speaker Asylum, RE: The Assembled SBA Sasandu TeXtremes have arrived! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-25, 20:54:13 (100.1.131.65)
Extremely interesting and logically designed speaker with excellent parts. I sure hope they don't disappoint. .......

469: Speaker Asylum, RE: Swarm Subwoofer (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-25, 20:52:19 (100.1.131.65)
You are wrong. Very deep bass is not directional. You locate low frequency sound from the harmonics. I was at an exhibit with subs at least 3 feet from the main speakers. All the sound seemed to come .......

470: Speaker Asylum, RE: The challenge I see as a coherency freak (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-24, 10:27:48 (100.1.131.65)
Audiophiles often say they can hear the crossover but I think you have it right. What they hear is a change in dispersion. But I think it's worse with sharp crossovers. With a 1st order there's wide o .......

471: Speaker Asylum, RE: Adding subwoofer with or without high pass? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-22, 21:12:45 (100.1.131.65)
A high pass at 80 Hz means the woofers in your main speakers are working 1/4 as hard as if they are run full range. The mid bass and well up into the mid range will be cleaner, more transparent and mo .......

472: Speaker Asylum, RE: Falcon Q7 is the best 'LS3/5a' type speaker I've ever owned (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-14, 20:44:08 (100.1.131.65)
It actually uses the drivers specified by the BBC way back then, the B110 mid/woofer and the T27 tweeter. The founder of Falcon designed them for KEF and Falcon is making them again. .......

473: Speaker Asylum, RE: Here's a radical suggestion. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-11, 21:16:51 (100.1.131.65)
They sound different. There are trade offs on planars versus well done dynamic speakers and you'll go one way or the other depending on their different strengths and weaknesses in relationship to how .......

474: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Consider stuffing the box (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-10, 20:48:42 (100.1.131.65)
But if you over stuff it or put the stuffing in the wrong place you will strangle the sound and especially the dynamics. Use as little stuffing as you can and Never put it right behind a driver. ::: T .......

475: Speaker Asylum, RE: My DIY aluminium cabinet project.... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 15:31:26 (100.1.131.65)
Cool, creative thinking. .......

476: Speaker Asylum, RE: Do I recall that early LS3/5A crossovers included transformers? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 11:49:47 (100.1.131.65)
The specs for the LS3/5a spec values for all crossover parts and test pass specs for the KEF drivers(most of which didn't pass and were sent back to KEF). But the overall frequency spec and especially .......

477: Speaker Asylum, RE: For me, it's not worth the trouble and expense (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 11:42:15 (100.1.131.65)
I recall the old IMF monitors 0f the early 70's that were covered in Formica but with it glued on with a glue that never got totally hard resulting in constrained layer damping. I you don't need a ven .......

478: Speaker Asylum, RE: It's the damped cabinets that count...... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 10:45:44 (100.1.131.65)
The great aluminum cabinets are never just aluminum but at least aluminum and a second material to achieve constrained layer damping. Aluminum alone will ring like a bell but at higher frequencies tha .......

479: Speaker Asylum, RE: Thanks, I agree (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 10:43:00 (100.1.131.65)
The 2 biggest flaws of the LS3/5a are it's bumped up bass to help balance the over all speaker response since it doesn't go low enough to maintain balance otherwise. But the price is sloppy mid bass, .......

480: Speaker Asylum, RE: It's the damped cabinets that count...... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-09, 10:00:19 (100.1.131.65)
The BBC used excellent drivers in the LS3/5a. You have to remember it's a 50 year old design and KEF drivers were among the best then. The problem with the LS3/5a is just that it's so old and we've le .......

481: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Vintage speaker crossover upgrade (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-08, 21:00:21 (100.1.131.65)
A cheap 3 way crossover will probably sound worse than the simple one you have now. Crossovers are complex and they must be designed for the combination of parts making up each speaker to sound good. .......

482: Critic's Corner, RE: Hedging a Bet (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-08, 20:46:40 (100.1.131.65)
What he's saying is they don't handle dynamics well, compressing level changes probably of all amounts from mini changes to middle to macro ones. The Falcons(and other LS3/5a's are like a wide band de .......

483: Speaker Asylum, RE: any of all y'all recently replaced Dynaco A25 tweeter(s)? If so, with what? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-05, 21:12:42 (100.1.131.65)
I think you will find the A26 is padded down with a series resistor and Madisound includes 3 resistors with the kit so you can choose your balance. But the smaller the padding the better. But keep in .......

484: Speaker Asylum, RE: any of all y'all recently replaced Dynaco A25 tweeter(s)? If so, with what? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-05, 13:05:00 (100.1.131.65)
Nice looking performance. Makes you wonder why SEAS didn't use it in their A26 design. It would have saved money. My only guess is that being smaller in diameter they preferred the kit tweeter dispers .......

485: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Product IDEA (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-04, 20:35:38 (100.1.131.65)
and many CD drives do place the data in a storage buffer. .......

486: Speaker Asylum, RE: Big news from SEAS! MetaModalTX drivers! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-01, 20:38:51 (100.1.131.65)
This is very interesting. My friend Murray Zelligman who designed the SEAS Froy III kit loved SEAS drivers and especially that he found that after break in they consistently met published specs. ::: T .......

487: Speaker Asylum, RE: any of all y'all recently replaced Dynaco A25 tweeter(s)? If so, with what? (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-01, 20:35:02 (100.1.131.65)
I'd check with Madisound who probably has answered this question a ton of times. Perhaps the SEAS tweeter used in the SEAS A26 kit. .......

488: Speaker Asylum, RE: Jim Tuomy has six patents in Electroacoustics (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-06-01, 07:24:36 (100.1.131.65)
So is it too simplistic to relate agility factor to power to weight ratio? .......

489: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Power and Distortion (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-16, 20:41:53 (100.1.131.65)
Part of the problem is the amp/speaker interface, the impedance of the speaker and the ability of an amp to put power into lousy impedances. If the speaker causes the phase between the current and vol .......

490: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Lamhorn/Beauhorn Nostalgia (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-16, 04:33:03 (100.1.131.65)
google Charney Audio for one .......

491: Tubes Asylum, RE: I don't mourn the loss of KT 120s and KT 150s (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-13, 19:54:04 (100.1.131.65)
I've been told that too by a manufacturer who uses them probably because most tube people have been led to believe they are better especially due to higher power output. But in the best amps linearity .......

492: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Raw Tannoy drivers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-12, 20:44:09 (100.1.131.65)
What got me interested was a couple of hours with a new 15" Tannoy coax and being totally impressed. This version, at least, was the furthest thing from crap. It was clean, open, super dynamic, etc. I .......

493: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Raw Tannoy drivers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-12, 07:15:17 (100.1.131.65)
Thanks. Darn. .......

494: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Raw Tannoy drivers (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-11, 20:56:38 (100.1.131.65)
I thought that at least at one time Tannoy sold their coax drivers to the general market. I looked at their web site and see no listings for drivers. Is this true or am I missing something? ::: TOPIC: .......

495: Speaker Asylum, RE: All new Qualio Audio IQ Loudspeakers GIANT KILLERS ! (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-11, 12:21:58 (100.1.131.65)
I heard them at the DC show in November and was impressed. .......

496: Speaker Asylum, RE: As a follow-up... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-09, 15:17:35 (100.1.131.65)
I know all the gear. It should make a really nice system. Glad they are RIIs - much better than the 1st generation. .......

497: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Don't Laugh, It's $230 and has features, features, features (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-08, 20:49:28 (100.1.131.65)
The 100 watt rating is a bit confusing. First of all it's 100 total meaning it's a 50 watt amp. And that's into 4 ohms which is sort of OK since a lot of speakers are rated at 4 ohms. But most amps st .......

498: Speaker Asylum, RE: SEAS Thor description says otherwise (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-08, 16:42:59 (100.1.131.65)
I thought there was no output from the line because the lower impedance rise of a transmission line doesn't measure. That's like an aperiodic variovent or like the stuffed slot of a Dynaco A25 where t .......

499: Speaker Asylum, RE: Yup. (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-08, 15:31:43 (100.1.131.65)
I believe Bud valued what he called dynamic linearity a lot. His speakers seemed to have that quality. By the way he never would have played 'Famous Blu Raincoat'. He only listened to classical music .......

500: Speaker Asylum, RE: What Laurence said... (0.00)
Posted by hahax@verizon.net on 2023-05-08, 15:22:30 (100.1.131.65)
makes sense. Bass lines are difficult to eliminate all the energy from the end of the line(and most designers like the extra bass from the back of the line) but it's not that hard to dampen all the en .......

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