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  1. RCanelas

    Why Synergy horns?

    I don't think that is what I said at all. Those are both of some of the most important measures to start designing a loudspeaker indeed. Alas they are highly correlated, correlated with another few parameters and most important, they are very difficult to extricate from a room. I mean, they are...
  2. RCanelas

    Why Synergy horns?

    This is a mtm design, quasi D'Appolito configuration. Mostly symmetric around the tweeter. Instead of just letting the interference from distinct drivers land where it lands and produce lobing in the polar response as usual, it leverages it to contour the polar response in the vertical plane...
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    The American Sound Turntable- Beyond's Minimalist!

    Air or hydrodynamic bearing are very nice. Introducing anything other than an incredibly flat, dry and rigid surface destroys the effect. So oil and teflon are out. In turntables unfortunately we need air pressure, since the velocity is to low to have a pure hydrodynamic effect at atmospheric...
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    "Long-Term Equipment Loans: A Win-Win for Everyone" by Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound

    This is not ridiculous at all, it is the foundation of a work deontology that allows journalism to have any signal and not just be background noise. These rules and practices exist for a reason and have been put in place by literally generations of professionals that had to deal with these types...
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    Thinking about starting a YouTube channel on high end audio.

    My POV - Focusing on your personal experience and path trough audio is tough. It puts a lot of pressure on you not running out of interesting things to say. Most channels of this type are resource intensive - Jay and other small reviewers go though a ridiculous amount of gear just to keep it...
  6. RCanelas

    SET amp owners thread

    This does sound absolutely fantastic. I hope to pay a visit to Jean in the coming months, maybe he can lead me here...
  7. RCanelas

    Introducing Sigberg Audio - Active speaker company from Norway

    Welcome to WBF Thorbjørn! Looking forward to explore your lineup someday, these look fantastic. As a fanatic of dispersion control and high dynamic range, kudos!
  8. RCanelas

    More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?

    Qobuz doesn't upsample anything. You either get the files that where served to them by the labels or downsampled files depending on your settings. Most of the catalog is 44/16 as that is the cd quality that was provided by the distributers. You can't get those in higher figures from Qobuz. Of...
  9. RCanelas

    More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?

    There is literally an official Qobuz downloader app on their website. And you can use plenty of others to download their files in high-res, bit-perfect flavor, complete with artwork, just like the labels send to Qobuz. I use Qobuz to audition new music and to assemble a library with thousands...
  10. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Again, it would be important to be able to distinguish things clearly so we can get to the root of the issue. The distinction I raised before between the file (or a copy) and reproducing said file are important. I'm comfortable making the categorical statement that, if it was indeed a copy...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    File copy (the topic of my post) is not what you mention by playback (reading a file to memory, producing a bitstream, transporting and clocking said bitstream and converting that to analog signal). One is a purely digital, bit perfect, closed loop, easily verifiable and correctable operation...
  12. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Fortunately the world of digital information is very well defined, deterministic (apart from stray cosmic particles flipping bits... and even then we have ECC) and not open to gray areas. If a file is copied, in the true sense of the word, it is a bit perfect copy and by definition nothing is...
  13. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Absolutely agree. I feel it is a separate (or separable) topic from the one that prompted my reply however. Having a low signature, full bandwidth and balanced system, that allows through the nature of the recording is part of my drive. This implies different recordings get rendered...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    @Gregm It is not a feasible thing because of the (now many times referenced on this thread) circle of confusion. There is no accessible, universally available and reproducible reference point to establish what is the 'truth' in a reproduced sound from a recording. Unless you are the person in...
  15. RCanelas

    Zellaton: The End of My Speaker Journey

    That also makes sense. I'm thrown by the amount of area dedicated to it (and the arrangement), but yeah.
  16. RCanelas

    Zellaton: The End of My Speaker Journey

    It's a flavor of loading and attaining dispersion for cardioid behavior over a given band pass. I'm betting low mid-bass, high bass regions from the apparent dimensions. That's part of their appeal, they were made do play in a real room, and from Mike's impressions it shows! Read up online...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    If you search around I'm sure you'll be able to find something to help around that problem. My library is packed with terabytes of downloads from Qobuz. There is even a formal downloader application in their website.
  18. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    No one said digital isn't technically superior, on the contrary. It is a fact. But it has a context, and that makes a difference IMO. No one said that vinyl is equal to digital or that it's limitations don't affect the sound. Or the opposite. Obviously the sports car has a better engine, but if...
  19. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Oh I agree with you, alas on the premises, not the conclusions. High-res digital is faster, more ergonomic and better at every objective metric. It is simpler to produce, distribute and reproduce. It is cheaper to work with. It allows for a lot that analog methods struggle with. But this says...
  20. RCanelas

    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    Exact reproduction is a noble goal, but many have argued (and I'm of that school) that it is an impossible goal. Toole named a perspective on this problem "the circle of confusion". The only way for you to listen to what the engineer intended to is to be in the room with him. More than that...
  21. RCanelas

    JLSounds USB, which DAC manufacturers use it?

    We do.
  22. RCanelas

    Natural Sound

    This is a topic that also pops up in various of my circles, but the truth is that I always end stumped with this apparent dichotomy. It's not a true issue, the answer is almost a simple matter of formal logic, but that doesn't leave me any more satisfied. I don't like what the answer implies so...
  23. RCanelas

    Natural Sound

    I'm conflicted on this topic. On the one hand, if it is in the recording, it should be surfaceable by the system. A system can't 'force' or create out of thin air etched imaging if that information doesn't exist in the first place. On the other hand, excessively outlined sound sources are...
  24. RCanelas

    Natural Sound

    The fact there are different sounding 'releases' of the work floating around should tell us everything we need to know. There is no absolute reference for any of this, except the real deal acoustic event, in the case of acoustic or electro-acoustic music. We are hopelessly stuck in the circle of...
  25. RCanelas

    Ron’s New System

    Could it be more loudspeaker/room 'compression' than amplification? 105dB is a considerable spl for a domestic setting. Most drivers would incur in significant IMD at such levels. Most rooms also express different behavior as their response is non linear with pressure across different...
  26. RCanelas

    Videos of Acoustically-Coupled Audio Recordings

    Bringing the conversation here not pollute Peter's thread. I enjoyed the comparison between the various systems from @PeterA , @tima , @jdza and @LMR-Miguel , all horns, and decided to add my own. Also horn, but dipole, maybe a different flavor. I absolutely love the amount of low-mid energy...
  27. RCanelas

    Which turntable do you prefer and why?

    what I find interesting, in a recurring way, is the variability of the opinions, even with relatively well controlled (better than anything I have ever seen, read or experienced before) a binary choice. Here we have two presentations where the only differences are the turnables and minute...
  28. RCanelas

    Which turntable do you prefer and why?

    @PeterA if I'm not mistaken, the recording is an ADC from the phono stage output. That's why it sounds so clean. I'm leaning towards the oma presentation. I feel it less in rails than the TechDAS. Less constrained. During the drum solo I feel the drum kick is more lively, less polite. Close...
  29. RCanelas

    Hans Beekhuyzen shares scientific proof of ethernet switch effectiveness...

    Please don't interpret me wrong. I design digital transports and DACs, I know there are differences lurking in the corners both in the hardware and software side. I'm sure many here can also hear them. That's besides the point. I'm not dismissing anything except for the core content of the...
  30. RCanelas

    Hans Beekhuyzen shares scientific proof of ethernet switch effectiveness...

    I would take this with a grain of salt. This is many worlds apart from scientific evidence. There are procedural and model questions that haven't been answered. From a quick glance: - The picosecond 'variation' in jitter can be induced by 'everything'. From room temperature to background noise...

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