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"The 'offical' line here is of course PWK's, and he couldn't do anything about it so he delared it didn't exist." ???? Well I gather most people on this forum haven't had the privilege of "standing on PWK's shoulders".(sic) A little bit of humility can enhance the technical points one is trying to make...........

Scroll down to the section "Psychoacoustics" subsection #4 and listen to the various delays especially the first 10 millisecond sample........ RJP http://sig.sapp.org/sounds/wave/00readme.html

---------------- On 12/21/2004 2:09:54 AM dodger wrote: Welcome to the Forum Tom, you have a PM. Ben - there's a few guys in Ontario? HUH ---------------- You bet, I'm only about 22 miles due west of the Niagara Falls, Ontario/N.Y. area where its too $%^&ing cold right now!!

OT I know, but 126mhz are you involved in aviation or a private pilot as you have a freq. from the VHF air band as a handle. BTW, I use Monster cable (only 10' per speaker) for speaker cable and #14 for the xover to drivers connection.....(LaScalas)

"Just to name a few I can understand isolation and tube dampeners but some of the other stuff _____seems like snake oil..." Thats because that is exactly what it is.....What I find even more digusting is the agitation and outright hostility that some of the "audio neurotics" exhibit if you challenge their logic or ask for some kind of credible documentation to support the use of these products. The attitude that really disturbs me is the "you just dont get it" approach, at that point I want to pick up the nearest blunt object!!

EXTREMELY good advice!!! ---------------- On 10/30/2004 4:56:49 AM djk wrote: About $10 at larger sporting goods stores. http://www.earinc.com/p1-filtered-sonicvalve.php Anyone that doesn't own a set should have their hearing examined. ----------------

Yes, it does and thank you.

Very funny stuff....!! "G'Night W. G. - You were taken too soon, but you will NEVER be forgotten.... Thank You for the Memories....:)" I HAVE to ask, what is this all about? My curiosity is getting the best of me........

Does anyone on this forum know anything about the old Hartley Concertmasters? I see a pair available through an estate sale (well heeled individual) and wonder how they are valued these days.....I was looking through a relative's classic collection of ancient Stereophile magazines and apparently at one point they were the darling of the mags reviewers, as they were consistently placed in the "Class A" category--------for whatever thats worth!! TIA.

Somebody with an innate ability to play on the "audio neurosis"..

You may or may not be aware that Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange" during the one year period he was living under a death sentence. He had been misdiagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.....Can you imagine the "chunk of change" he could finagle in a litigation nowadays ?? I thought Kubrick seemed to be punishing his audience with the excess violence. Sadly I think we have moved closer to his nightmare vision.........

I should know this but what is the composition of the diaphragm/cone of the K33E?? TIA.

"My recall is that the original near field monitor was built by the BBC. They had a mixing studio in the back of vans (lorries?) set up outside of remote broadcast locations." If you dont want it too loud and are in a small room, the LS3-5As can put up an amazing image---almost holographic. I believe these are the speakers you are referring to. Manufactured under license by Rogers, Chartwell etc. They used the KEF T27 tweeter and the 5" KEF B110 bass/mid with a complex 13 element crossover----only about 84db efficient though.

Bob: I notice one of the parameters they dont publish for the K77 ( at least I cant find it)is the total moving mass in gm. I'm suspecting it cant be much over 500 mg. based on the average moving mass of a decent dome tweeter (200 to 400 mg) depending on the make/size i.e. 3/4", 1" etc. TIA.

Original lyrics in French by Jacques Brel..... Rod McKuen Lyrics If you go away, on this summer day Then you might as well take the sun away All the birds that flew in the summer sky When our love was new and our hearts were high When the day was young and the night was long And the moon stood still for the night birds' song If you go away, if you go away, if you go away But if you stay, I'll make you a day Like no day has been or will be again We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind Then if you go, I'll understand Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand If you go away, if you go away, if you go away If you go away, as I know you will You must tell the world to stop turning till You return again, if you ever do For what good is love without loving you Can I tell you now as you turn to go I'll be dying slowly till the next hello If you go away, if you go away, if you go away But if you stay I'll make you a night Like no night has been or will be again I'll sail on your smile, I'll ride on your touch I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much But if you go I won't cry Though the good is gone from the word goodbye If you go away, if you go away, if you go away If you go away as I know you must There'll be nothing left in the world to trust Just an empty room full of empty space Like the empty look I see on your face I'd have been the shadow of your dog If I thought you might have kept me by your side If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

---------------- On 9/26/2004 11:10:58 PM William F. Gil McDermott wrote: I'm in the same camp as Nicholti as far as suspicions. There may well be an issue of DAC and how they work and to what benefit. DAC conversion is a long standing issue. That is something else. However, the audiophile camp seems to argue that there are shortcomings in inexpensive computer type technology which impacts on the transfer or copying of digital data. At the hardware level, you open up your computer CD drive and take a look; then you open up your audio CD drive and take a look. They look about the same. They both came out some factory in the Orient. It seems ludicrous that one or the other is optimized for any form of digital. I.e. audio versus computer data in general. I wonder about data integrity and claims there is an issue. For example: You duplicate a data CD with 100s of megabites of program code. It runs without error. Yet people contend that an audio CD dupicated on the same system is lacking something. That can't be. Our programs would crash because of errors in transcription. They don't. There seems to be a fall back argument by audiophiles that crummy old (but let me say current) off the shelf CD-ROM drives suffer some timing errors. This doesn't make sense either. I say that because we typically see that we can duplicate a music CD at 48 times the normal rate without error. Roughly, we pop an audio CD in the drive and then write off to a hard drive at 48 times the normal rate of what we'd listen to, and then copy back to burn a CD-R in a minute or less. You can see my argument. The currrent off the shelf CD-ROM drive can transfer data off at 48 times the normal play back rate without error. Yet people contend that when it is running at 1/48 of that high speed (normal listening of a CD) it is flawed in performance. Gosh, hard to believe. Best. Gil ---------------- [/blockquote Now there is what I would call impeccable logic and reasoning. But I can see where it would be "fighting words" to some........!

Funny!! The sad part is if this guys just now turning 21 years old and he's already up on a public intox charge, well, I dont know................

Has anyone here had any experience with the British made QED digit reference DAC? They seem to be well thought of by those who enjoy both the analog and digital world. I've heard one briefly using the digital output from a relatively modest CD player (Philips) and the sound on LaScalas was quite warm and analog like with both a Krell and Bryston amp/preamp. Any other users who can describe their experience with it?? TIA.

Has anyone here had any experience with the British made QED digit reference DAC? They seem to be well thought of by those who enjoy both the analog and digital world. I've heard one briefly using the digital output from a relatively modest CD player (Philips) and the sound on LaScalas was quite warm and analog like with both a Krell and Bryston amp/preamp. Any other users who can describe their experience with it?? TIA.

Its unfortunate that huge fellow died so young........

Who knows, he might get it........!!

My LaScalas also have the networks on the right, I just assumed thats where they are located----I believe mine are circa '78.

"Tubes are for Boobs" -Peter Aczel BTW, I dont agree with this but it is a hand grenade........

"It dosent hurt that when we built our house (wich is 160 ft long that my music room is at the opposite end of the 5 bedrooms)." Good Lord!! Are you a movie star, gangster, or a litigation lawyer?? Enjoy your speakers........

"Clipped & Shorn mocked me personally several times and ignored warnings. I won't put up with it, and shouldn't have to." I thought so........