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37 minutes ago, Fido said:
Crappy music doesn’t sound better by just going louder.
True of most Rock players vs. Jazz. Also the WHO was the loudest band in the world, resulting in Pete Townsend's severe hearing loss, just like Ted Nugent, who says: "It was worth it." Maybe for him, but not their audiences!
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12 hours ago, michaelwjones said:
Like Shaky, I use my iPhone and have a NIOSH app to measure at listening position. Most of the time, I generally do not hit 80dB on a continuous basis. That is not to say I don't need to remember why LSIIs are so great and ensure my neighbors know what I am listening to.
Interestingly, I have been listening to a pair of Harbeth C7s with a 300b SET integrated. I find myself listening at about 65 dB (or less) with that combo and find it incredibly satisfying. Those lower levels with that low power amp make those speakers sound their best (to me).
Every room has it's "sweet spot Listening Position." Every speaker has it's sweet spot output Level. Every piston engine has it's sweet spot RPM. Every listener driver has it's sweet spot "comfort zone." My biggest complaint is that, with few exceptions, live Concerts are just TOO DAMN LOUD. Europe want to pass a law to limit concert levels to 96 db, which is only hearing damage free for about 2 hours.
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On 11/20/2022 at 1:25 PM, Fido said:
Haha I never said that 40 dbs was “plenty loud” for me but my living room is very loud at 65-75 dbs and over 80 db prolonged volume can lead to hearing damage. I’d prefer to avoid that.
OSHA used to say 90 db was OK for 8 hours, now they say 85. I'm usually at 83 or less A weighted.
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5 hours ago, Fido said:
My mother in law is almost deaf from not wearing ear protection. This isn't some B$ I have read but if you can listen at 100 DBs for hours upon hours without any hearing damage more power to you. me? I am not willing to take that chance because I don't feel the need to listen that loud. Blast away and enjoy.
I agree with this notion. Especially for Klipsch owners, the old adage rings true: "Just because you Can, doesn't mean you Should!"
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51 minutes ago, mikebse2a3 said:
All the above can lead to considerable variations in the reported levels listeners are reporting if not consistently applied by everyone.
miketn
Hear, hear! (PUN intended). WHAT, WHAT, WHAAAAAAAAAAAT??
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5 hours ago, HPower said:
As long as those diffusers are being held up with Nordost cabling. 🙄
Room treatment is the best tweak I have ever done in audio! 🤓
Me too, but it usually falls on deaf ears. I've know this for over 45 years now.
In his Dope From Hope papers, he used the popular Bose 901 to generate the Highest IM distortion he ever measured in a speaker of his days and probably what created his Bullshit Button. He called BS on their ad that claimed to have a direct to reverberant field ratio by stating FACTS. You cannot avoid the 90% of the sound coming from that same reverberant field with ANY loudspeaker, regardless of brand, or type, once you are about 10 ft. away from them, which is typical for most rooms/listeners position.
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On 11/1/2022 at 7:46 PM, Marvel said:
Here's a pic of Mancusos loft with khorns. Top hats raised up high...
I like the colorful Diffusers on the ceiling!
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The gray haired expert in the right bottom video is lying by omission of data from the 70's, and making predictions that are as hard to swallow as the oceans rising.
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On 11/3/2022 at 9:56 AM, jjptkd said:
I have the k510/ k-691 combo in my Chorus II's right now and they are a game changer, nothing I've heard in the "home" end of Klipsch speakers really compare. The 510 with the 2" exit driver seems to combine the best of the Tractrix horn with big, openness and the pointed detail and accuracy of the exponential horns. My favorite thing about this top end is how detailed and full they sound at very low volume, find myself perfectly happy listening at sub 70db most of the time.
This means you are using about 10 MilliWatts of power when doing so.
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On 11/2/2022 at 4:31 PM, Heritage_Head said:
Is there any point to it?
Minimize Your Compromise. That's the point.
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10 hours ago, Buddy Shagmore said:
Was that the Hi Fidelity Workshop? I bought my first good system (Sansui-Dual-Jensen) from them.
Yes it was. My first stereo was an Ampex Cassette/FM with 2 speakers, until I started building my own, evolving into 15" BR boxes with Altec Horns for DJ work BEFORE Saturday Night Fever and the Studio 54 Craze of the late 70's. They had moved to Royal Oak on Woodward from their West Side Detroit location on 7 mile Rd by the time I had enough money, as a 23 year old to buy Khorns (1977 KCBR).
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2 minutes ago, Fido said:
I loved Petula Clark. One of 1st albums I asked for from Santa.
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Just now, Fido said:
Chicks dig the guy in the band that blows a mean horn. You are a man with many talents.
I was still 12 years old and only played for a year because when we moved, my new Jr. High School didn't have Band. Ella Fitzgerald Elementary School (Stevie Wonder was there 2 years ahead of me) and Post Jr. High School on the same big block in Detroit (right next door). Both have been closed down for several years. Mr. Cardeccia, our band leader was also a Trumped Player! Maybe that's why I fell in love with the sound of Klipschorns when I went into our local Klipsch dealer, which was about 5 blocks from my house. Rode by it every day on my bike on my way to my paper route!
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I can also recall Petula Clark's (remember "Downtown?") Lonely Bull Melody, of the lyrics, which may have been the title: "J'avais le Soleil dans les yeux."
translated, it's "I had the Sun in my eyes." with a Horn intro, of course.
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On 10/14/2022 at 8:25 PM, Fido said:
The Lonely Bull sounds freaking amazing on these speakers, WOW!
I still have my Trumpet from my middle school days, and can still play a few basic things. I even have a Herb Alpert music charts book. Al Hirt's music was too hard to play, but we all could play Herb's music. Lonely Bull was recorded with different studio musicians before he put together his touring band. My parents didn't have a stereo then, it was strictly mono. When listening to the Tijuana Brass I now have on CD, I can tell that most times, there were 2 trumpets, often in unison, playing to give a unique sound to those lead instruments. So twin guitars by Beatles, Rolling Stones, Wishbone Ash, and the Allman Brothers Band (Richard Betts and Duane Allman) were a different manifestation of the same ideas.
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13 hours ago, Quad Khorns said:
I'd suggest the superb imaging you heard is due to other reasons.
Forgot to mention. I have extensive experience listening to speakers NOT in corners and with NO Horns. Especially Open Baffle, Planar Magnetics, Quad Electrostats, etc. that I own, have owned, and/or heard. They all have proven to me that for better IMAGING, etc. speakers have deeper 3 Dimensional depth not using bass reinforcement from corners, keeping them at least 1 meter away from all walls, results in a better ILLUSION of 3 dimensional depth. Anti PWK, I know but there's a reason some people prefer that particular performance criterion. They are not wrong, they have just made a different choice, usually involving more amplifier power rather than use the 6-9 db gain of corner placement. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs. For extensive technical coverage of this sort of thing:
I'm glad to see survivors carrying on the work of the late, great, Sigfried Linkwitz, who, initially brought us the famous Linkwitz-Riley filters when they were both Hewlett Packard superstar Engineers! If you like technical stuff, you will be lost for months at the site!
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2 hours ago, Quad Khorns said:
I'd suggest the superb imaging you heard is due to other reasons.
It was a public demo at a dealer with Dave Wilson's Wife and Son attending. Daryl Wilson did the Demo with their sub in corner, a $600,000 Turntable, which made the Dan Dagostino Mono blocks seem cheap. Not bad for a $1.3 Million setup. They played 1 Vinyl and 3 digital recordings, then another group was let into the room for a repeat performance. they were all great recordings of course, which would not be typical for everyone.
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2 hours ago, Tom05 said:
That’s probably a pretty darn good way to look at it . Now that I’m a bit older and against all odds ,still enjoying pretty good hearing , my mind has transformed into complete acceptance to the Khorn sound , I’ve abandoned all criticism because the general presentation is just so good , really hard to beat , especially when played with the Lascala center ,it’s nice to be satisfied , now , finally I can focus most of my attention to the music or a good movie . Life is good🤓
Had Khorns for 30 years with a LaScala Mono center, then I discovered Klipsch Pro and HT with more channels. Sold all 3 and have gone through pretty much everything in the Pro line. Starting with MWMs and other big horns in the stack. It's a good disease to have.
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19 minutes ago, Quad Khorns said:
I wasn't challenging the 2 ms, I just took an edjumacated guess at 1.75 ft, and don't really remember how I arrived at that 20 years ago.
You are much closer to the "truth" whatever that is than those who have NO time alignment.
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On 10/28/2022 at 9:16 PM, KT88 said:
When I listen to my old 1977 LaScala I have the impression that these differences in running time are somewhat overrated. It sounds "right" despite all that. It might be different to get it "right" between midrange and tweeter. But even there, I don't consciously mind it the way it is.
Your mid to bass time alignment on a LaScala is within the standard Quarter wave tolerance, so no worries for you.
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14 minutes ago, Quad Khorns said:
2ms equates to 2.25 ft, or a 6 in difference which is nothing really.
Not according the Wilson Audio, whose Chronosonic Speakers' Drivers are time aligned to 500 Microseconds and have some of the best imaging I've ever heard (the XvXmodel).
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1 hour ago, Heritage_Head said:
the other 8 measurements are NOT considered listening positions… these are considered room measurement data.
Hence the reason why you're better off skipping them, or it will compromise your phantom imaging. I discovered about 15 years ago when I used Audyssey. They all work in a similar fashion. I currently use YPAO from Yamaha and I do the same thing. 1 mike reading only. You're welcome.
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Single mic reading at your nose position is all you need. Otherwise, it will mess with imaging.
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what level to you usually listen at?
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He said that on the Late Show with David letterman when he was younger. What fact are you referring to? And why do you sound like a lawyer working a trial? If so it's actually funny.