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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    if you add some caps and bypasses length can be compensated for to some extent, but generally shorter IS better....but on a NAS?
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    a 'passive pre-amplifier', or rather a (shunt) resistor between DAC and AMP works fine. I can recommend Khozmo as one of the most neutral versions I've heard (and used with Z foil resistors). The sonic difference between digital volume control and real colume control is quite real IME, Metrum...
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    Introducing Olympus & Olympus I/O - A new perspective on modern music playback

    I'd say that taking the Koenigsegg to Munich High End over the German Autobahn would be best of both worlds...one would need a dash of tranquilizers upon arrival in order to aprreciate sound I guess..
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    Post your female vocal videos

    don't be an a%%...this thread is for systems playing vocals, feel free to start a thread on female vocals
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    yeah I noticed that ad! crazy find
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    A while ago we did a tweeter shootout from plusminus 7Khz upwards and the KL302 did very well. I would not say it lacks sparkle
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    isn't that exactly what I wrote? Dogma, what dogma?
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    That is the beauty of designing your own speaker, one can adapt and try things... The Bionor does not really have a tweeter in it's original design, 500Hz and upwards are taken care of by the top horn (or horns for the Bionor II) It IS adjustable, I agree it's not likely tuned in the horizontal...
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    great question, I always think that great composers (and conductors) play with that aspect...
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    Theoretically they are Kugelwellenhorns, patented for having a large phase coherent 'plug' A calculated phase coherent speaker IMHO always sounds worse than a speaker that is physically time adjusted..call me silly but that is my preference and that of many who have heard the difference so far...
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    the answer to what question please?
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    more so than most of what I heard at High End Munich last year... I'll go for the setup I tested in my prototype, full range and a super tweeter rather than the 500Hz higher order crossover the horn.
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    the mind is indeed building a similar picture (I'd not call what I perceive ina concert hall as hologram at all), yet the way different systems do that is differing...and for me some ways work better than others, for others it'll be the other way around. I find phase/time coherence to be of...
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    indeed, the decca tree is a great set up Yet we can discuss recordings until we're green around the nose, the thing is that the recording does not change when replayed with a vintage or modern speaker.
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    David Karmeli’s Bionor/Lamm/AS-2000 Audio System

    Overall I vastly prefer simpler recordings, they do not have to be early or old! The modernistic stereo meccano construction box recording (and mastering) I usually leave alone.

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