I think we all have playback entertainment systems. Not reality systems. And every system is different sounding from every other one.
Do I enjoy my system? Thats my question and I answer it differently at times by being satisfied or tweaking or buying new stuff.
I've been next to an opera...
I've used a number of horns from A-7, tractrix and other pro hro horns. Materials matter but I think the geometry matters more (CD, exponential, elliptical, etc). Even if you use the best material for a horn and it still has honk or echoes from the geometry, it'll sound sub optimal.
Using a...
I ordered several sheets of 3M™ AB7000HF Series EMI Absorber specs: https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/3M%20PDFs/AB7000HF.pdf
Maybe the AB5000HF series would be better?
I simply taped a couple of AB7010HF sheets to the circuit breaker panel, without interfering with its function, and...
Of course that is possible for a SET amp and many SS amps.
But with the Benchmark equipment I hear more transparancy and music. For once I think the distortion and noise levels being extremely low make a sonic difference for me, maybe not for you, and that's great!
Sterophile tests...
In the 90's I used to design and build my own SET DHT amps. I played with the 10Y, 50, 2a3, 300b and 845.
I got to know JC Morrisson, Herb, Don, Mike Lefevre, Komuro, John Camille and others. I learned a lot from those guys.
Now I listen to Benchmark Media amp and pre, I love the extremely low...
SlapEcho,
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I'm using YC industrial cloth tape for Wiring Harness Automotive. I have to heat it with a hair dryer to get it to stick. Ive read other tapes have a similar problem. Thanks!
I think lower noise and lower distortion are very beneficial to let the music thru as it is. Having less distortion and noise being called a "blacker background" is strange. "More music, less noise and distortion" is a mouthful. I try to not add noise or distortion, of course I havent fully...
Never heard Edgars big system. He didnt have one when I went to his house to listen to his small system back in the 90's.
I've had Edgars big mid tractrix horn, VOT and others. I now use a round, oblate spheroid waveguide/horn in my clone of Geddes Nathan 2 way. To my ears it has much, much less...