Post by foveaux on Oct 20, 2022 6:35:30 GMT 12
"INTEGRATE! INTEGRATE!'
(Dalek voice :=}))
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Cheers!
Nice to see a Decca LXT-series album in the foreground, quite rightfully pulling focus from those monstrosities in the background! I will always pick these up in the wild and have maybe about 10 now. I find almost everything about them absolutely delicious. The sonics, the Decca ffrr wartime-development backstory and Decca tree, the deep, almost embossed printing, the artwork and colours, the tissue-paper inner-sleeves (always sadly trashed), the explanations on the back, most times the music, too! and thats gotta be a decent shot of Ardbeg single malt on the table too: appropriately "Supernova" (@ UKP600), should get you halfway into orbit 2CV...
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by foveaux on May 5, 2023 11:39:44 GMT 12
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by peter0c on May 5, 2023 15:18:38 GMT 12
The technology behind the new Monitor Audio Hyphn speaker is well understood and not at all new. The tweeter is their version of Oskar Heil's early 1970s Airmotion Transformer tweeter design (it squeezes pleats resulting in higher velocities than traditional domes or ribbons) which is no longer covered by patent. The circular array of midrange drivers has appeared in Tectron Design speakers (https://tektondesign.com/) which provide a point source whilst the opposed bass units (see www.whathifi.com/features/engineering-over-chasing-a-sound-how-monitor-audio-is-designing-hyphn-for-the-new-generation) were to my knowledge first proposed by Nelson Pass (https://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0911/slot_loaded_open_baffle_speaker.htm) whose first job was with ESS, which was owned by Heil. Nelson's wife was also employed there and made the AMT pleats! His Slot Loaded Open Baffle (SLOB) speaker is directly related to Oskar Heil's AMT tweeter, which was called a transformer because it converts volume to velocity, giving an approximate 6dB boost to the lowest bass. So the speaker should certainly sound good but it didn't have to be so ugly.
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Post by RdM on May 5, 2023 22:48:59 GMT 12
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Post by michaelw on May 6, 2023 14:01:58 GMT 12
More spaceships please...
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