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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    I never had world class instructors, But I did play a magnificent alto saxophone and a good Yamaha piano at least well enough to entertain others for most of my life. I never found that that in any way diminished my desire for better and better stereo systems. I don't play anymore. While...
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    Does DSP belong in State of the Art Systems?

    With my DIY fully horn loaded speakers the bass is reproduced by folded corner horns back in the room corners where they need to be. Mids and highs are reproduced by by horns out in the room where they image better. This is essential to my design of the speakers. Counting the horn path inside...
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    Top 10 Most Expensive Speakers

    The Aries Cerat Contendo Horn Speaker is about 950K Euros, and from what I have heard worth every penny of it.
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    I agree with everyone who has posted on this thread. That is unusual for me.
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    Jonathan Valin the best audio writer, EVER.

    I like Robert Harley. In addition to his writing in TAS I also have his book and like it. I have never read many of Martin Collom's magazine reviews, but I have found his book, High Performance Loudspeakers very helpful in my forty year experience with designing and building my own speakers...
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    Plasma tweeter

    adrianywu, at what frequency do you cross over to the Acapella plasma tweeters? What slope is the xover? I am still toying with the idea of buying the plasma tweeters to go with my DIY horn system.
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    Any Shellac 78 RPM Listeners ?

    I don't listen to old 78s on my main system, but I have a dozen or so I keep for when I get in the mood to wind up the floor standing folded horn Columbia phonograph my father bought in about 1928 or '29 and let it sing. My 78s aren't very good, mostly nearly worn out, but with new needles they...
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    Magico M9 >>>>Fulfillment

    I find the black color for speakers as large as the M9s to be oppressive. The arm tube on my Clearaudio Tracer tonearm is carbon fiber, but it is painted a nice bright silver color so carbon fiber can obviously be painted. I want my pair of M9s to be a rich milk chocolate brown. Perhaps...
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    WBF Appreciation

    MRubey, I appreciate and approve your post above. Your feelings about WBF are remarkably similar to my own.
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    Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?

    Since I partially designed and built my DIY horn speakers any claim to perfection would be brazen self aggrandizement . I will say that after over half a century of pursuing great sound and owning a plethora of different speakers of many different types my present speakers are the best I've...
  11. Don Reid

    Part 1: My history and philosophy, some comments on field coils, and the future of this forum

    I believe this question has been asked before, but if you answered it I missed your reply. Will you make your drivers available separately from your speaker systems to those of the DIY persuasion?
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    Todd's AG Trio G3 System -- it's about time

    Part of the Spacehorn's range is horn loaded, but the deep bass is not. Years ago when I visited Jim, Smith at his home near Atlanta I asked him how such a small horn could play deep bass. He replied, "lots of equalization." Regarding the Living Voice Vox Elysian's limited upper useful range...
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    Todd's AG Trio G3 System -- it's about time

    I am quite envious of the various forum members who have the Trios. I have no doubt that they sound marvelous. But I am a curious guy, and I am curious if anyone has tried combining the upper three horns of the Trio system with a true horn woofer such as the Aries Cerat Erevus or Living Voice...
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    First High End Turntable

    During college years, late 1960s and early 1970s, I ran a Elac Miracord 50H with a Stanton 681EE cartridge. This was followed by an AR table with a Shure V15 type V cartridge in the late 70s and early 80s. Then came a VPI HW 19 with Eminent Technology II tone arm with a Shinon Red Boron...
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    What Other Interests of Yours Relate to Your Audio Hobby/Pursuit

    Since my main speakers have been DIY for almost forty years obviously wood working is an interest of mine that is very related to being an audiophile.
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