A version of Parallels i tried had the same issue. Don’t know if they have fixed i yett.
dave
dave
Upcycled 15/2, now 15/3 equipped with faital 15FH500 and sica 8cx2.5.
All passive diy x-over, new grills and warnex paintjob.
Slightly falling fr response, tuned for near and midfield monitor operations (hi spl pa applications)
All passive diy x-over, new grills and warnex paintjob.
Slightly falling fr response, tuned for near and midfield monitor operations (hi spl pa applications)
It looks better 🙂
I noticed a little bit more top end, also measured it, but poorly no documentation there.
The original dustcap has a treatment which looks "different transparent" over its surface if you look through it into a light source.
Disadvantage: no protection against particles and dust
I noticed a little bit more top end, also measured it, but poorly no documentation there.
The original dustcap has a treatment which looks "different transparent" over its surface if you look through it into a light source.
Disadvantage: no protection against particles and dust
I've been watching movies with a plain 2 channel system instead of with an older 7.1 AVR, and like the sound of no processing.
Out of curiosity, I added a L+R feed from the unused amp channels in a stereo amp pair I've been using as mono blocks.
The centre speaker has a 4db dip at about 250 hz, and a 2 db bump about 1Khz, for better dialogue clarity, and blends for an excellent centre fill with my stereo pair, by good fortune playing at about 5db less efficient than either stereo speaker.
It's no substitute for surround spectacle movies, but it's pretty darned good at regular movies. It like the plain 2 channel system far better at ambient or background sounds, like wind across grass, or scaling approaching footsteps, or hanging onto retreating ones clearly through dialogue.
I'm not sure if music is more or less enjoyable with this sort of centre channel, in fact, it's harder to notice it's on with music than with a movie.
Out of curiosity, I added a L+R feed from the unused amp channels in a stereo amp pair I've been using as mono blocks.
The centre speaker has a 4db dip at about 250 hz, and a 2 db bump about 1Khz, for better dialogue clarity, and blends for an excellent centre fill with my stereo pair, by good fortune playing at about 5db less efficient than either stereo speaker.
It's no substitute for surround spectacle movies, but it's pretty darned good at regular movies. It like the plain 2 channel system far better at ambient or background sounds, like wind across grass, or scaling approaching footsteps, or hanging onto retreating ones clearly through dialogue.
I'm not sure if music is more or less enjoyable with this sort of centre channel, in fact, it's harder to notice it's on with music than with a movie.
Interesting. I’ve been complaining about the surround sound on Amazon and other streaming providers for years. Why they can transmit 4K video but not 5.1 surround is beyond me. I usually listen to music in stereo in the pure setting (no eq) and blueray and DVD movies in 5.1 or 7.1. Music in surround modes mostly comes through my center speaker, I don’t know why. I go back to stereo and the instruments are where they are supposed to be, the hall ambience and applause are back to normal, I have bass again, and it’s not blasting out of the center speaker. It’s like the mix is totally backwards. I’ve read the manual a million times, movies work but concerts don’t. I gave up, I’ll stick with stereo.
I’m waiting for the DSP rebellion and it seems like you are a pioneer.
I’m waiting for the DSP rebellion and it seems like you are a pioneer.
It's not my idea, but I might be among the first to try it with identical stereo amplifiers, each playing 1 channel and its matching 1/2 channel. No chance of 2 different outputs modulating their single power supply.
There’s another option for center from a Left/Right mix and i still use it on my main 2 channel system and that’s a center series connection…………feed one side of a passive center with a positive from one channel and a ground from the other……all that will play is what was recorded in mono. Works to lock voices to the screen. I have a little remote normally open single pole switch is use to turn it on and off.
We did that back in the 70s, with power amps, and even with preamps.
Or even before that, with actual mono amplifiers and preamps.
Not sure if I understand correctly but I use my M2 (14") using Roon over USB and don't seem to have that issue.
I AM constantly upgrading my analog sources for my Big System n°2, which is built to move my Tannoy Autograph clones with Beyma coaxials.
Recently I upgraded further my OTARI MX5050 with a new opamp combination that sounds great to me perhaps because of their complimentary character: LME49720 (detailed and "flat") on Q501 and Burson's Vivid6 (detailed and voluptuous) on Q101-201. As I have commented on another thread, this R2R has its own exclussive PS for the reproduction amp which is regulated, "baluned" and "Bybeed" and has Silver Bybees on the Tape Head signal path, as I describe on the attached video, taken on the run.
My almost free Lenco L75, stolen from my father, has received an upgraded plinth done with spare native woods (from diverse hardness) and cork everywhere dumping is needed: feet, mat, suspension for the metal plate. I am using my upgraded "Man-on-Wire" unipivot tonearm with extended arms. This is a high mass-low center of gravity system made with a century old violin bow made from massaranduba wood. I seem to remember that it is 13 or 14 inches long...It is using a cheap and good Ortofon FF15XE I believe.....I AM new to the vinyl world guys.
I cloned the SONY TA1010 phono preamp and I use a TVC for all my sources to feed my Amnesis amp.
This system has big scale and big dynamics and provides anti-audiophile relaxation.
I hope you like it.
Cheers,
M.
Recently I upgraded further my OTARI MX5050 with a new opamp combination that sounds great to me perhaps because of their complimentary character: LME49720 (detailed and "flat") on Q501 and Burson's Vivid6 (detailed and voluptuous) on Q101-201. As I have commented on another thread, this R2R has its own exclussive PS for the reproduction amp which is regulated, "baluned" and "Bybeed" and has Silver Bybees on the Tape Head signal path, as I describe on the attached video, taken on the run.
My almost free Lenco L75, stolen from my father, has received an upgraded plinth done with spare native woods (from diverse hardness) and cork everywhere dumping is needed: feet, mat, suspension for the metal plate. I am using my upgraded "Man-on-Wire" unipivot tonearm with extended arms. This is a high mass-low center of gravity system made with a century old violin bow made from massaranduba wood. I seem to remember that it is 13 or 14 inches long...It is using a cheap and good Ortofon FF15XE I believe.....I AM new to the vinyl world guys.
I cloned the SONY TA1010 phono preamp and I use a TVC for all my sources to feed my Amnesis amp.
This system has big scale and big dynamics and provides anti-audiophile relaxation.
I hope you like it.
Cheers,
M.
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My 4 way dipoles in post# 3,782 have recently morphed, for the time being anyway, into 3 way dipoles with omni bass/subs. I very much like the sound mix of dipoles and omni in this set up - it's like the result of the LXmini being crossed with the LX521? I hope SL would approve. Still got the flaky wiring at the back though.
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Me too! I got the idea from Siegfried Linkwitz's LXmini (and mixed it a bit with his LX521 as well).
This is what I spent my summer on. I included a PDF with details about design and construction with lots of pictures.
Nice! Lovely looking build.
Whats the point of the pice on top?
You could cut some small circles yhe size of the drivers out of a contrasting wood (or use a contrasting stain), and slice off slides to fill in the gaps next to the truncated midbasses. Thats what I plan to do with my Wavecors.
That is a fix for a mistake I made. I made many mistakes. That mistake was: I somehow cut all the baffle holes 3/4 inch too high! I didn't realize the mistake until I found that I couldn't insert the top woofer, because the speaker top was in the way. So I cut out a notch in the top and covered it with leftover wood.