Groucho
Been into building hardware and software since a teenager, and always music. Have recorded my own stuff in years gone by. Wrote a successful computer game in 1982. One of my designs published in a popular electronics mag in 1984. Degree in Computer Science. Some electronics patents and a published paper in the field of analogue electronics.
Music: 20th century classical among other things, some new stuff but I'm fussy. I can improvise my own stuff on the piano. I follow current affairs.
Music: 20th century classical among other things, some new stuff but I'm fussy. I can improvise my own stuff on the piano. I follow current affairs.
- Location
- UK
- The Place To List Your Gear
- Tri-amped PC-based three way active system with DSP crossovers and driver correction based on measurements. Big sealed enclosures with 'constrained layer damping', large woofers. Solid state amps. I built the speakers and wrote the software.
Such a system has unusual properties even in this day and age: correct in the time domain, controlled bass that extends all the way down, very clean, capable of high volume, well behaved off axis.
Please note: whatever I appear to be saying in the forum is against a firm conviction that
(1) for 'hi fi' we should try to reproduce whatever is on the recording; no more and no less. Far from producing a clinical or predictable sound, the result is usually better than we could have expected or imagined.
(2) there is no evidence that digital audio, solid state amps and box speakers with DSP are not the best way to achieve this.
(3) There is little correlation between the cost of 'high end' hi fi equipment and its performance.
- Occupation
- Electronics & Software Engineer
Signature
It has not yet been demonstrated to me that anything can beat digital audio, active crossover, three or more ways, DSP driver correction, solid state amps, sealed enclosures, properly-large woofers.
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