Recent content by RCanelas
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Why Synergy horns?
I don't think that is what I said at all. Those are both of some of the most important measures to start designing a loudspeaker indeed. Alas they are highly correlated, correlated with another few parameters and most important, they are very difficult to extricate from a room. I mean, they are...- RCanelas
- Post #328
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
This is a mtm design, quasi D'Appolito configuration. Mostly symmetric around the tweeter. Instead of just letting the interference from distinct drivers land where it lands and produce lobing in the polar response as usual, it leverages it to contour the polar response in the vertical plane...- RCanelas
- Post #322
- Forum: Speaker Design
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The American Sound Turntable- Beyond's Minimalist!
Air or hydrodynamic bearing are very nice. Introducing anything other than an incredibly flat, dry and rigid surface destroys the effect. So oil and teflon are out. In turntables unfortunately we need air pressure, since the velocity is to low to have a pure hydrodynamic effect at atmospheric...- RCanelas
- Post #162
- Forum: David Karmeli Discusses 5 Reference Turntables Forum
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"Long-Term Equipment Loans: A Win-Win for Everyone" by Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound
This is not ridiculous at all, it is the foundation of a work deontology that allows journalism to have any signal and not just be background noise. These rules and practices exist for a reason and have been put in place by literally generations of professionals that had to deal with these types...- RCanelas
- Post #654
- Forum: General Audio Forum
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Thinking about starting a YouTube channel on high end audio.
My POV - Focusing on your personal experience and path trough audio is tough. It puts a lot of pressure on you not running out of interesting things to say. Most channels of this type are resource intensive - Jay and other small reviewers go though a ridiculous amount of gear just to keep it...- RCanelas
- Post #28
- Forum: General Audio Forum
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SET amp owners thread
This does sound absolutely fantastic. I hope to pay a visit to Jean in the coming months, maybe he can lead me here...- RCanelas
- Post #3,164
- Forum: Single Ended Triode Amplifiers Subforum
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Introducing Sigberg Audio - Active speaker company from Norway
Welcome to WBF Thorbjørn! Looking forward to explore your lineup someday, these look fantastic. As a fanatic of dispersion control and high dynamic range, kudos! -
More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?
Qobuz doesn't upsample anything. You either get the files that where served to them by the labels or downsampled files depending on your settings. Most of the catalog is 44/16 as that is the cd quality that was provided by the distributers. You can't get those in higher figures from Qobuz. Of...- RCanelas
- Post #860
- Forum: Computer Based Music Server Forum
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More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?
There is literally an official Qobuz downloader app on their website. And you can use plenty of others to download their files in high-res, bit-perfect flavor, complete with artwork, just like the labels send to Qobuz. I use Qobuz to audition new music and to assemble a library with thousands...- RCanelas
- Post #857
- Forum: Computer Based Music Server Forum
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Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
Again, it would be important to be able to distinguish things clearly so we can get to the root of the issue. The distinction I raised before between the file (or a copy) and reproducing said file are important. I'm comfortable making the categorical statement that, if it was indeed a copy...- RCanelas
- Post #2,175
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
File copy (the topic of my post) is not what you mention by playback (reading a file to memory, producing a bitstream, transporting and clocking said bitstream and converting that to analog signal). One is a purely digital, bit perfect, closed loop, easily verifiable and correctable operation...- RCanelas
- Post #2,155
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
Fortunately the world of digital information is very well defined, deterministic (apart from stray cosmic particles flipping bits... and even then we have ECC) and not open to gray areas. If a file is copied, in the true sense of the word, it is a bit perfect copy and by definition nothing is...- RCanelas
- Post #2,150
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
Absolutely agree. I feel it is a separate (or separable) topic from the one that prompted my reply however. Having a low signature, full bandwidth and balanced system, that allows through the nature of the recording is part of my drive. This implies different recordings get rendered...- RCanelas
- Post #2,086
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
@Gregm It is not a feasible thing because of the (now many times referenced on this thread) circle of confusion. There is no accessible, universally available and reproducible reference point to establish what is the 'truth' in a reproduced sound from a recording. Unless you are the person in...- RCanelas
- Post #2,077
- Forum: Digital Audio Forum: DAC, Transports, Digital Processing Forum
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Zellaton: The End of My Speaker Journey
That also makes sense. I'm thrown by the amount of area dedicated to it (and the arrangement), but yeah.- RCanelas
- Post #43
- Forum: Zellaton - The Legendary Speaker
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