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  1. Ron Resnick

    Rhapsody.Audio Listening Rooms

    Now that looks like my kind of contemporary horn loudspeaker! I like a woofer on the top and a woofer on the bottom with the horn in between!
  2. Ron Resnick

    Koetsu

    Thank you.
  3. Ron Resnick

    Koetsu

    The way Inline Six characterizes things sounds right to me. I have no idea if this is correct but I read from reports that the sonic differences in stone bodies were trivial* and covered up by sample to sample build variation (as Inline Six says), but that different stone bodies were used...
  4. Ron Resnick

    What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???

    Then what is the meaning of: "When we see a great distance behind the speakers, our brain pereceives it as depth and adds it. And it's also gone when you close your eyes"?
  5. Ron Resnick

    What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???

    If you are suggesting that the sonic sensation and presentation that the sound-stage develops wholly behind the plane of the speakers is a visually-induced delusion, than I strongly disagree. It doesn't go away when I close my eyes. In fact, sometimes I close my eyes to hear it more clearly...
  6. Ron Resnick

    What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???

    "Without a detrimental effect" is subjective. To my ears and experience and preference having the sound-stage develop behind the plane of the speakers is a very different presentation than a flat presentation with little depth and sound-staging, or than a sensation that the sound is projecting...
  7. Ron Resnick

    What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???

    Another big horn loudspeaker system up against the front wall. :rolleyes: WHY??? (Photo courtesy of Matej Isek)
  8. Ron Resnick

    Top 10 Most Expensive Speakers

    I thought "we" -- the collective we -- had gotten past a snipe like this -- which accomplishes the unusual linguistic trick of being both vacuous and arrogant. The question I am interested in here is how does this loudspeaker system compare sonically to the flagship offering from Avantgarde and...
  9. Ron Resnick

    Koetsu

  10. Ron Resnick

    About Taiko Audio

    Congratulations, Chris!
  11. Ron Resnick

    Tape Pancakes, Oh No!

    Seriously, thank you for your post. :) I had a whole inventory of pancakes to put on reels last year. The whole job, thankfully, is now done. Out of around 40 pancake surgeries, I screwed up only one tape: the first couple of minutes of the first track of an Air Supply album. (Not a huge loss.)
  12. Ron Resnick

    Tape Pancakes, Oh No!

    Nothing could be easier? Is this a matter for the Hyperbole Police? The Detective on Duty there is suggesting to me a number of things that potentially could be easier than dealing with tape pancakes. Eating a chocolate bar, for example, he suggests.
  13. Ron Resnick

    Beliefs About Time and Money

    Hello Mike, Did the reality live up to the fantasy?
  14. Ron Resnick

    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    (emphasis added) This explanation supports my sonic cues theory, which explains why – – even though we hear substantially the same thing in the concert hall in the same seat – – our stereo systems end up sounding materially different.
  15. Ron Resnick

    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    (emphasis added) This discussion is interesting because to me it sounds in the matrix of alternative high-end audio objectives. In fact the same words used in this discussion ("reproduction" and "recreation") are used in the terms of the differing objectives. The idea of "recreation" suggests...
  16. Ron Resnick

    ARC announces price increase effective Mid-March '24

    Welcome to WBF, Val! Thank you very much for writing here, and for answering questions which have been asked! It is exciting to learn that ARC is working on new products!
  17. Ron Resnick

    Neutral power amp recommendations?

    This is, obviously, totally subjective, but to me "neutral" and "neutral without being cold and analytical" result in two different sets of recommendations. Neutral solid-state without being cold and analytical to me suggests CH and Soulution. I consider Boulder to be so neutral as to be...
  18. Ron Resnick

    Ron Reporting from Southwest Audio Fest 2024

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    Ron Resnick's YouTube Channel Livestreams / Zoom Conferences

    REMINDER!!! Join me tonight to discuss Southwest Audio Fest 2024 at 6:00 pm Pacific Coast Time / 9:00 pm East Coast Time / 12:00 midnight Sydney Australia Time! https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82247488324?pwd=hx2WgfaEed6sbMhOp002DhJEhIn4id.1
  20. Ron Resnick

    Neutral power amp recommendations?

    Are you open to buying it used?
  21. Ron Resnick

    Visit to Todd (sbnx) Avantgarde Trio G3 in Parker, Texas

    Of course I agree with this. But the depth and the sound-staging I heard in Todd's room was very familiar to me and to what I am accustomed in terms of a great sense of depth and the sound-stage developing wholly behind the plane of the speakers. Unlike with horns up against the front wall (in...
  22. Ron Resnick

    Visit to Todd (sbnx) Avantgarde Trio G3 in Parker, Texas

    Another set-up with the horns pretty much up against the front wall. I think it is traditional AG set-ups like this from which casual auditioners conclude (mistakenly) that "horns don't soundstage."
  23. Ron Resnick

    Neutral power amp recommendations?

    Hi vermaxis, Do you want tube or solid-state or hybrid, or are you completely agnostic? What MSRP price range are you looking at?
  24. Ron Resnick

    ARC announces price increase effective Mid-March '24

    Thank you very much, Dave, for this comprehensive update!
  25. Ron Resnick

    Visit to Todd (sbnx) Avantgarde Trio G3 in Parker, Texas

    Please enjoy my interview with Todd and his amazing system! And please subscribe to the WhatsBestForum YouTube channel!
  26. Ron Resnick

    Songer Audio's Next Generation Driver, and the S1x

    WOW!!! Congratulations, Ken!!!
  27. Ron Resnick

    Part-Time Audiophile Review & Reviewers Choice Award for the S2

    I attended the Pretend School of Loudspeaker Design over the weekend, so I would love to see a 15 inch field coil woofer on the top and on the bottom, with two S1x drivers in the middle, all open baffle!
  28. Ron Resnick

    ARC announces price increase effective Mid-March '24

    Hi Elliot, This is purely subjective, but I actually like it when a high-end audio company does not update their products every year or two. Aesthetix and VTL both have very long product cycles. Both companies make quiet, in-production improvements along the way, without declaring a new model...
  29. Ron Resnick

    Part-Time Audiophile Review & Reviewers Choice Award for the S2

    Hi Ken, I just realized an important question I should've asked you in our Zoom interview: why isn't the woofer in the S2 a field coil?

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