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| A listening test of two power amps I can't read the flac files and don't care to load the software to enable it. Put them on YouTube for a bigger audience. | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers Thanks guys. The Vette would go for about the price of 5 - 6 (2.5 - 3 pr) of the Moabs, new. The paint and bodywork was as much as a single Moab. 😉 | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers But if you want your speakers to match your Ferrari (i.e., grigio titanio), what are your other options? (Also, I had my '64 painted that color over a dozen years ago.) | |
| Dog pissed on speaker Look at it this way..., you improved speakers now have a "whizzer" cone whereas before they didn't. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? If you want the peaks to be at realistic levels, yeah, 150 watts is probably about right to get you to about 107 dB or maybe only a bit over 100 dB when you consider thermal compression. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? You can also make a more efficient speaker by "tightening up the tolerances" (i.e., tighter fitting voice coil/gap) and increasing the number of windings within the same area (e.g., using flat-wound wire), without causing other problems. BTW, a l... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? Too many bad recordings out there to just trust your ears. Case in point. So many recordings have a "grunge" (maybe digital?) to them due to whatever somewhere along the process of getting the original session to the final CD. Better recordi... | |
| Scientifically proven improvement for sound clarity. Everything else beng equal, that's fairly obvious. But, they, like everyone else, have grown accustomed to the sound the brain perceives through their ear shape/size, and not that with some cup strapped up to them. I can certainly cup my hand... | |
| Scientifically proven improvement for sound clarity. Is that the way you walk around in the real world? Do you think that by doing that, things will sound "natural" as they do in the real world? | |
| Best HIFI Stores LA/Orange Pick up the current issue of Stereophile Magazine where they review the Moab Be ($30K/pr) and decide for yourself. BTW, their speakers are offered in the same color as my ’64 Corvette, Ferrari, grigio titanio. | |
| Best HIFI Stores LA/Orange In Anaheim: https://scottwalkeraudio.com/ BTW, I am not too far to the south (North Tustin area) and if you want to hear what soundstage and imaging are all about, we can arrange a visit. | |
| Dog pissed on speaker That is exactly why I won't have a male dog. | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? As a monoral signal has no separation, by the same token, it would seem to me that an amp with better channel separation would throw a wider soundstage than one with poor separation. BUT, perhaps a bit of out-of-phase channel crosstalk could make... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? "We don’t listen to square waves on purpose, but that is one measurement from the old days that is still a valid predictor of sonic performance." Ahhh, but we do! Can you show me even one analog synthesizer that doesn’t include a square wave p... | |
| Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :) So then, with less than $6K invested (using a 22 year old Yamaha RX-Z9 receiver, in "Pure Direct" mode, purchased new with over 30K hours on it now), plus countless hours of speaker development/tweaking (in the room they are used in), and an Oppo9... |