I have no real evidence of what I called the "voicing peak" was intentionally added. I just meant that these lower-down peaks couldn't be the ultimate tweeter...
... Ever heard about an Exciter? It is a device that adds things to the wanted audio that makes things brighter, harder, clearer, more open, depending on the...
Of course there are many things one can do to an audio signal that have audible effects, eg introduce large amounts of harmonic distortion of various sorts. It...
Yes I did. But not for TAS as I recall. (This was back when TAS had almost stopped publishing and I --along with HP--was writing some for other people). I...
Unfortunately, I left the magazine behind in Montreal (they were giving them away at the Montreal Audio Show last month) so I'm going by memory here... It was...
Robert, Ticked off perhaps but not put off despite raising the topic more than once. It's discouraging to be rebuffed by "nonsense"; "sense and fact" "amateur ...
Diamond is so passé! Don't you know? The new "in" is Beryllium! ... From: "Goran Finnberg" <mastering@...> To: <regsaudioforum@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
RE: "voicing peak" I always assumed that the speakers with significant peaks in the the upper frequencies were voiced that way on purpose! You mean to tell me...
Take Byron Janis Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 as an example. The violins do sound unnatural to me. Too bright and harsh. I surely don't like it. But I found...
I wonder if I even have a copy of the review. As I recall, it indeed did do some unusual things--no floor boune for example in the higher frequencies. But at...
OK OK so I was being arbitrary. But here are my calm and professional thoughts: 1 Physical identical sounds produce perceptually identical results, one...
Beryllium was used in drivers before diamond, I think. JM Focal is one company which has used such drivers for awhile now. Also, in the 1970s Micro Acoustics...
Right. The same mike peaks that make the violins scratchy and wiry are subjectively forgivable and even enjoyable on brass. It is not for nothing that many...
The Yamaha NS1000 had a beryllium dome midrange. Beryllium s a tricky material because the dust of it is very toxic so manufacturing work has to be carefully...
This might be a joke, but if it is serious: If a driver has a peak, then one can notch it out electrically, with filters in the crossover. Actually, a lot of...
I really did eview the Newform, for sure, but as I recall it was not in TAS. Shatzmann did one of them(the Newforms) for TAS, but I did not, as I recall. I...
Maybe enjoyable(the edge on the brass) but still wrong. Actual brass instruments are LOUD but they are not as edgy as that. I listen to them often at...
Thanks for the explanation. It never occurred to me that a designer would prize "purity" of the signal path over purity of the music (ie. flat response to me...
Hi Robert, Arbitrary? :-) But yes - OK - Thank you! Anyway, interesting that there are others who can hear stereo as from two seperate speakers. I wonder if ...
I stand corrected... for some reason I thought the use of beryllium was new. I have these images in my head of a tragic audiophile death caused by a clipping...
My impression (correct me if I'm off base here) is that the limiting factor on speaker sensitivity is generally the woofer, not the midrange or tweeter driver....
Relevant to REG's suggetstion that we take our speakers outdoors to hear their sound without reflections, take a look at the Harbeth User Group to see photos...
This(TM below) is correct. I was thinking (in the sensitivity issue) not about fixing eg tweeter peaks(which is painless, so to speak, as far as sensitivity is...
... And why would that be? Not a shred of evidence, REG, just speculations. If the first breakup mode is at 30 kHz and there´s nothing up there at anything...
... And the treble was a Beryllium dome too. One of the very best speakers ever in its size class. The beryllium drivers are acting as pure piston drivers...
... You´re mistaken. It´s not about purity it´s about money. The parts used in the crossover, type, quality, amount, has to be seen in the light of making...
