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    Pure Audio Project upgrades and tweaks

    They look great in your room Legolas… congratulations. You’re right about the shallow profile making them not seem overpowering in scale. Happy wiring and even happier tunes! Look forward to hearing more once you’ve got them in play mode.
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    Ron’s New System

    Some starter DJ tips for Tinka Ron… Step 1: Choose The Right Equipment and don’t be afraid of just a few red plating valves on amps… Step 2: Select The Music To Scratch With. ... Step 3: Consider Using Samples. ... record a scratch sample on your reel to reel and drag the Studer’s reels to...
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    SET amp owners thread

    Lovely looking room in that other thread escultor.
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    Direct Coupled Drivers Vs Crossover

    That is definitely the program… will start out implementing just compression drivers and the horn and then go from there… just wanted to have an outline for what I wanted to trial ultimately and get my head around what I was trying to achieve so I could have targets… I’ve got a design concept...
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    Direct Coupled Drivers Vs Crossover

    Yes, other compression drivers and I think I’ve sussed out the horn to go with them as well, but just been spun out for a while by the magnet in thinking going field coils for the mtm of mid-woofers and that’s been a full on research detour… while the flow points to simpler approaches I’ve been...
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    Direct Coupled Drivers Vs Crossover

    I’d also think it’s Ze’ev’s fault as well (he’s a great dude)… when he came up with the design concept he built in the ability (and enabled the innate audiophile urge) to explore and play with the design but both the trio and the quintet while sounding different to each other are such musically...
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    Direct Coupled Drivers Vs Crossover

    Rex, Just seeing what is it about the sound of your speakers that you are wanting to change or refine or is this more about taking the trio into a being quite a different speaker by swapping over to an active speaker setup? I’ve lived for over 5 years with pureaudioprojects (first the trios...
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    Are You a Furry as Well as an Audiophile?

    Uhmmm, if you look close you can see the zip Pyp.. just sayn!
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    American Sound, "The Absolute Nothing"

    The Hells Angels chapter of cage fighting audiophiles kindly helped with the setup.
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    American Sound, "The Absolute Nothing"

    Thanks for the update on David’s new design Peter, it’s fascinating, big, brave and bold, I love it! Looks like David is having a full on Frank Gehry moment… great post-modernist fractals and art meets engineering and going super sculptural… that’s cool.
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    Audio Critique

    Is this how you answer any ideas that challenge your position? How is this a respectful or reasonable response to some genuinely authentic questions?
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    Audio Critique

    Amir given that you have such clear and direct commercial interest in selling gear that (I’d guess) David Karmeli would probably rail against and unlikely approve of at all makes your quoting and constant references to DDK in your audio mantra seems fairly hollow and inauthentic.. you own and...
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    AXPONA 2024 Ron Reporting

    Really liking the new one to one short interviews mixed in with the slice of life videos of the camera through the rooms Ron… the accompanying wild reel of room sound for atmos brings the sense of the experience of wandering through the rooms with it. It’s a really good mix. The timing of the...
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    Audio Critique

    … and much like how in a shark attack knowing that it’s coming doesn’t really make you feel any better about it.
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    Visit to Chris to See Magico M9 and VYGER and Pilium in Southlake, Texas

    Thanks Ked, that’ll keep me off the digital for hours :)
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    Visit to Chris to See Magico M9 and VYGER and Pilium in Southlake, Texas

    A fantastic performance of the Sibelius violin concerto or Shostakovich cello concerto or a Rach piano concerto would serve as a hifi hallway siren call for sure… Stockhausen probably just a tad too niche… really tasty jazz, opera and large orchestral can all be great tests of a system alongside...
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    The Aurora's are coming.

    Phenomenal is a great word to describe Will’s setup… the speaker is a fascinating design and it looks quite striking and brilliant… congratulations on it all coming together for you Will.
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    Visit to Chris to See Magico M9 and VYGER and Pilium in Southlake, Texas

    I just know that Ron added a video which brought an addition of dimension to his sharing of his story and how it’d be a shame to not have that freedom because the concept of supporting with some moving visuals blows people’s minds and then creates irredeemable endless conflict.
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    Visit to Chris to See Magico M9 and VYGER and Pilium in Southlake, Texas

    The claims have always been twisted. There’s a world of difference between the notions of being indicative in ways rather than an exact replication, in being representative rather than being the same, or in being some evidence rather than being an absolute proof. It’s hard to understand all the...
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    How Good a CD Transport is Required to Sound Better than Streaming?

    Hi Al, There’s plenty here on the forum who’ve done just that. There’s so many examples of great file based server systems here… Taiko, Wadax, Antipodes, Innuos, CH Precision… it’s not that difficult once you get past the initial challenges of a more complex approach and I’ll admit I did it the...
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    What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???

    +1 on the Contendo… beauty in design should not just be done… it should also be seen to be done.
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    Belt Drive vs Direct Drive and which one?

    Those amps look complete beasts… what a crazy fabulous aesthetic going on there as well! Concrete and crystal chandeliers, Neumann carts, field coils and tungar supplies… a confident mix of modernist, exotic and vintage super luxe.
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    Songer Audio's Next Generation Driver, and the S1x

    Must feel great seeing your work being increasingly recognised Ken… congratulations.
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    Field Coil Driver Panel Discussion at Southwest Audio Fest 2024

    I’ve only heard consistent positives about the Son also, perhaps it was about your expectations or in the context of the demo maybe… what setup did you hear them in… and I suppose which vintage field coils are you then referencing in terms of what you expected the Son field coil to sound like...
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    Field Coil Driver Panel Discussion at Southwest Audio Fest 2024

    That was great to be able to watch the discussion… many thanks Ron for making the video to share and to Ken and John for so openly sharing their experience and insights into field coils… such a fascinating area of speaker design! Much appreciated.
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    Ron Reporting from Southwest Audio Fest 2024

    Great stuff Ron… love the simple video demos with the supporting summation video as a format. Really nice balance of reporting.
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    New Dedicated Listening Room

    … as if there could be any ulterior (or audiophile interior) motives :eek:
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    New Dedicated Listening Room

    Congratulations Rex… looking forward to the project unfolding, sounds like there’s lots of opportunities to explore. Very exciting times ahead.
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    First Watt SIT-4

    SIT (5?) monos with maybe 20 watts plus a side… could be very interesting.
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    Modern speakers vs Vintage speakers

    Very much so. The differences between early and contemporary designs in themselves are important but what within the designs actually causes the differences we experience is something we can learn even more from. Differences in design can be categorised under differences in the context (the...

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