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What do I wish I knew......... First and foremost, that there is no such thing as Hifi. If you accept that your equipment will never come close to the detail in live acoustic music, you realise that all there is left to do is to choose the coloration you like the most, and then you're judging...

SDA horns? Clearly I've been offline for too long. Stu, what have you been up to?

It also depends on the speaker architecture. I have a pair of modified Coral horns with 12" full range drivers and a supertweeter, with everything forward firing, buried tight in the corners of an 8m wide room. The corner made by walls and floor acts as an extension of the horn, providing very...

Once, moons ago, I convinced the owner (now dead) of a bunch of loudspeakers to get them all out of the room except one pair. THe change in the sound was dramatic. Passive resonators (ie unused speakers) are detail killers. Another thing about large, high sensitivity cones (which is not...

Its an interesting question, because for much music sound stage really isn't relevant. Classical venues go to a lot of effort in acoustic architecture and equipment (baffles in ceilings etc) to distribute sound so that when an orchestra plays, there isnt any instrument separation - you hear the...

Across the whole spectrum, most of the information that your ears get is not from the fundamental note but from the little high frequency transients on it, rather like the ripples on an ocean swell. That's what gets obscured in the recording and playback process. You can't even hear a smooth...

If you stand next to a piano and listen to someone play or play a note or two yourself, or sit close to an acoustic guitarist, and then listen to a recording of a piano or an acoustic guitarist on just about any system (and I have heard some greats), you will notice IMMEDIATELY the loss of...

I think what you are looking for is Australian jarrah, eucalyptus marginata. Many railway sleepers here were made out of it - they imported it in large quanitities as our local wood supplies dwindled. I saw a brand new one as recently as 1985. ;) It looks a bit like olive, a warm dark yellow or...

But then I haven't heard the releases of her work that Bernie Grundman remastered with Classic records. They are apparently the ultimate in classical listening. But this thread is about biases and preconceptions, isn't it?

A good big full range horn with a super tweeter on top is the cheapest way to superb sound. A streamer with a low power valve amp can be a marriage made in heaven - Cambridge and Leak 20 Vinyl isn't worth the effort. When Wilma Cozart Fine remastered her original Mercury Living Presence series...

THe magnificent, symphonic "Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief" in 1975 had 3 sides on one LP. One of the sides had two sets of grooves, so you had to watch carefully to catch the needle on the groove you wanted. It was worth it for the sheer emotional absorption of the music. The...

They look a bit Tannoy-ish, don't they? Substantial alnico magnet (not cheap!) and with that odd centre waveguide/bullet I wonder if there is another coil in there.

THanks for the advice guys.

My wife and I get around quite a lot in our open 50s sports car. She is getting really bugged by the wind noise - wants to listen to audiobooks and music while passengering. So this is not an audiophile requirement - they could be on her head for eight hours almost continuously, so comfort is...

DIY Tannoy Kingdom

For me, this is it. Minnamotos Dream, Jade Warrior

THanks for this, Ingvar - I've been a lifetime fan of Excitable Boy, but I lost track of him, was unaware of these releases.

Hats off to you, gentlemen, for having the courage to try this. THere will always be someone to tell you that you cocked it up, regardless of the amount of discipline you applied. So I think take a bow, publish the results, and let everyone draw their own conclusions.

As a total cable sceptic, I am looking forward to this like you can't believe - what will I do if I'm shown to be wrong? We cling to our beliefs, world view, whatever you want to call it, so hard! It'll be fantastic if I have to change mine, as the repercussions for me will be massive in all...