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I don't have a dog in this fight, but I certainly didn't perceive that implication. Simply, MQA is a format that Tidal is newly streaming. Not that Tidal was either behind it or that it was exclusive to them. But then I had no expectation or preconceived idea there was anything more to the introductory statement.

It's obviously no horn at all, merely a rear-firing ported cabinet. The slot expands several-fold unless the box is placed firmly in a corner at which time the only "discharge" area is that of the triangle left at the top. Even if placed loosely in the corner, the best you'd get is parallel surfaces a short way along the wall prior to a minimal further expansion. Would certainly be beneficial but not much of a horn, and not over much frequency range.

http://education.lenardaudio.com/en/14_valve_amps.html Don't stop until you get all the way through the page... There are items of interest sprinkled throughout the site and it's hard to pick which would be the single best example.

Don't want to get so high with the woofer that dispersion narrows too much, though. That'll mess with the balance of the sound power in the room.

I "thumbed" through some pages at a website the other day with some expressed thoughts re objectivists / subjectivists. I'll post up a link a bit later when I get situated at the laptop. Very apropos stuff said...

For the speaker wire it'd be better to wire them both to the speaker and each other end to A & B outputs on the same channel and alternate with that switch. For the interconnects you'd rightly need two active outputs on the CD player and alternate between source inputs on the pre-amp. Even if you were playing a mono CD, you'd still be using different sides of the player's innards which might differ somewhat (same goes for the amp/pre-amp when comparing interconnects or speaker wires); just to eliminate all possible variables.

Shoe polish?

I was acquainted with a Tim Teaman back around '78. He drove an old Dodge with a broken power steering pump, and one day the letters on the yard light at his folks' house (high school days) were rearranged to say "EATME". That you? edit: nevermind, it just occurred to me after hitting "submit" that it had to have been Teamen for the signpost thing to work. I know it worked because I saw it happen.

As per the owners manual I linked to in the other thread, this is more along the lines of what you'd want. https://www.amazon.com/Parts-Express-Speaker-L-Pad-Attenuator/dp/B0002KR1K0 or for a couple bucks less (but less margin) https://www.amazon.com/Parts-Express-Speaker-L-Pad-Attenuator/dp/B0002KR1FA Hook one each of the two outer control terminals to one each of the center channel output screws on the amp. Hook one speaker lead to one of the control outer terminals along with that wire going to the amplifier. Hook the other speaker lead to the center control terminal and adjust the control to taste. It really doesn't matter which outer terminal you use with the speaker unless you use the faceplate on the control and want it to be accurate in terms of direction to turn the knob. Do be sure to mind the polarities of the speaker leads; you want the speaker to be "in phase" with the stereo pair. It's a rather ingenious method they used. The schematic shows the center speaker terminals hooked to the positive end of one output transformer secondary and to the negative end of the other transformer secondary.

That product link currently has different dimensions listed than the spec sheet PDF link also in that page. I'd go with the PDF information in this case.

"Is My Room Too Small?" It's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it, or so I've heard...

The only thing it's "shunting to ground" is information that's already been attenuated / phase-shifted by the inductor ahead of it and by design meant to be kept from the woofer. What you're noting as more mid coming from the woofer without the cap is information that's going to be duplicated (though not entirely because of phase shifts) by the next driver up the scale. But you're welcome to redesign the speaker any way you see fit; you do own it after all. If you redesign the low-pass portion you'd do well to redesign the high-pass to match.

http://www.fisherconsoles.com/non console manuals/fisher 500c om.pdf You just wire it to the terminals provided, with resistors as needed/specified in the manual (pages 3-5)!

I would just issue in a terminal window: convert -resize 30% whatever.jpg whatever_sm.jpg [enter] Realizing most don't have the Imagemagick toolkit installed, and without installing any new software on your computer, you could always just text the image to yourself on your phone. Most usually the images get resized smaller for that on the phone. Certainly at least there's an option to do so.

Wouldn't need to listen to just one at a time, depending on their relative locations, your familiarity with the content, and what you're "looking for" at the time.

You can, and that's the sort of "bi-amp"ing I'd suspected you were talking about in the first place. All you'll have to do is match the gains of the amps (when/if they're different amps) used lows-to-highs which will be simple if at least one of the two have gain controls. All this other talk is about something completely different and represents taking things to a whole new level.

Haha, that was kind of my point (Metallica). Not to say their creative content is unlistenable, but the end results they sometimes supply is (the mixing and mastering). Nevertheless, 85 watts ain't all that much sometimes for "loud."

Your amp just might be clipping a fair amount. Some of that stuff is terribly compressed which raises the average power level considerably. Your amp might just be running out of steam and clipping makes the highs harsh. Turning up the bass could make things worse if so. How much is it rated for?

It'll add delay for one of the drivers, subtract it for the other...

Years and years ago I was at the local college library thumbing through some old (even then) audio-related books. I'd like to be able to provide a concrete reference, maybe I'll find one later, but I recall something about early sound movies and tap dancing where the taps were being reproduced through a crossover region between horns of different length causing an objectionable multiple-instance of the taps occuring in the theater.

Interesting but I fail to understand how this concept would be of any value for use with a single loudspeaker - all components of which are housed within the same box. If said drivers within that speaker are not in time alignment I would say there is a seriously major flaw with that speaker and it’s design. I was referring specifically there to a Klipschorn, which indeed has all its components housed in the same box

Well, one does become accustomed to whatever sound qualities their system has, and something different usually does sound "off" whether it's actually better or not (properly, would be in the long(er) run). To be completely fair in such a comparison there are two things which should be done. 1 - when doing immediate A/B'ing, the overall volume levels must be precisely matched. Even a decibel louder with one of the two invariably makes it "sound better" than the other (unless something's grossly wrong with one of them, of course). 2 - spend a couple or three days with only each one to get yourself "recalibrated". In this instance it seems as though since the RFs spec louder at a watt that may be a factor (as I suspect it was for youthman, too). As well with what he showed us and we see here, one pair may well be more favorably positioned, and with them co-located, one or the other may well be more affected by the presence of the other (either good or bad effect).

Khorns, Jubilees, LaScalas, Cornwalls, Fortes, Heresys, ... None of them are time-aligned as delivered. Flawed in some ways yes (completely unavoidable no matter make, model, or price); "seriously majorly flawed"? Some would argue that, but usually not around here.

You've just got to keep it platonic until you get as far removed as a cousin.

Instagram and facebook have largely displaced that mentality, it seems.