Location: cheltenham
Posts: 746
I'm matt.
Location: cheltenham
Posts: 746
I'm matt.
Here's a well known speaker designers creation, reverse engineered by another speaker designer. According to the AudioExcite guy, the crossover was designed to work best at 1mtr. They are not supposed to be nearfield monitors, so It looks like something went wrong somewhere. Good luck to someone trying to get that kind of accuracy without software.
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Does it have to sound right to measure right? Does it have to measure right to sound right?
(there you go, that can be debated for hours )
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Location: Fenland
Posts: 125
I'm Bob.
As someone once said (Possibly), Antonio Stradivari didn't own a computer.
But through his family and upbringing had a fantastic apprenticeship that allowed him to build what most people say are the best violins ever produced.
Perhaps... Who knows? You'd have to try it. But there's also the chance that you might fuck things up!
The point is, improving is one thing, but without the software the best old designs certainly don't sound broken, in the sense that it's impossible to do the job right without it.
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Location: Witney Oxon
Posts: 893
I'm Martyn.
People had expertise and a knowledge of mathematics long before computers arrived on the scene...