Koreans have a huge kink for vintage american audio. Old men with too much money coupled with not enough educational material translated from english has bred something of a pseudo scientific approach to audio when concerning that generation of audiophiles. They will go at great lengths to collect old american equipment and take care to do as minimum work as possible to restorate them in order to preserve its 'spirit' of the parts or the 'fidelity' of the wood because they believe the older the cabinet or the components are the better they sound. Ive met people who had spent $100k+ to ship old altec speakers from run down cinemas in the states to their upscale apartment in korea or choose old fischer or western electric with their leaky caps and whatnot as their equipment for their daily equipment and loving every moment of it.
To each their own i guess
To each their own i guess
"Old men with too much money coupled with not enough educational material translated from english".
It seems you need to educate yourself about 'these old men'.
Many of these old men are academics, but they differ from most of the Western audio scientific crowd with regards to inner knowledge, a deeper understanding of classic (psycho) acoustics.
Museums like this exist to preserve the origins and history of audio for posterity.
It seems you need to educate yourself about 'these old men'.
Many of these old men are academics, but they differ from most of the Western audio scientific crowd with regards to inner knowledge, a deeper understanding of classic (psycho) acoustics.
Museums like this exist to preserve the origins and history of audio for posterity.
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With age comes enlightenment, experience, immunity to techno-w#nk, (and wads of dosh)...then a bespoke system. 🙂
Love these 'museum' systems ! and building mine for family, friends, and all my newbie headphone spotify friend listeners that have never had the opportunity to appreciate fidelity.
That's what it is about folks...Fidelity!
Love these 'museum' systems ! and building mine for family, friends, and all my newbie headphone spotify friend listeners that have never had the opportunity to appreciate fidelity.
That's what it is about folks...Fidelity!
While i have yet to hear a decent system with horns up top, there are so many happy with theirs there has tobe something. Getting such a system right takes serious work, and i suspect a DSP XO to deal with the time element.
dave
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Horns do a lot of things. As always in audio, everything is a compromise and physics confirms that. Horns deliver on dynamics, dispersion control and efficiency like hardly anything else. HiFi is about reproducing sound as close as possible to the original. Dynamics is one of the most important aspects of it but everyone got different criteria. You might not like it but it is what it is. And you very likely have never heard a really good horn speaker system. I'm not talking about 6-figure audiophool showroom shine hyped sculptured stuff, mind you.
Imho, the best sound ALWAYS has to do with:
1. Efficiency
2. Getting the basics right
3. (including) Materials.
The best MOR/gray sound I've heard (~about 90% of what you hear at shows) comes from the Kii 7,
despite the enormous amount of 'processing', and 80% related to the efficient, extremely budget-friendly, well-made and efficient mid-woofer.
There's also truth in the philosophy of Junji Kimura (former engineer of Pioneer, Kenwood and Luxman):
Simplify all technologies
Trust only your ears when evaluating sound. Don't depend on measurements or test equipment.
Only the simplest can contain the most complex!
1. Efficiency
2. Getting the basics right
3. (including) Materials.
The best MOR/gray sound I've heard (~about 90% of what you hear at shows) comes from the Kii 7,
despite the enormous amount of 'processing', and 80% related to the efficient, extremely budget-friendly, well-made and efficient mid-woofer.
There's also truth in the philosophy of Junji Kimura (former engineer of Pioneer, Kenwood and Luxman):
Simplify all technologies
Trust only your ears when evaluating sound. Don't depend on measurements or test equipment.
Only the simplest can contain the most complex!
Do you mean 'time alignment'?
The time element (domain) of the signal is essentially strictly related to the efficiency (also inversely):
Best time behavior in amplification: Class A (output devices are always on, so least efficient)
Best time behavior in loudspeakers: highest efficiency ~ lowest losses/energy storage (in the purest sense, I'm not referring to resonances).
For the 'pioneers' (in reference to GM) this was the starting point.
Museums like Audeum are there to remind us of that essence, among other things.
In forums and reviews people often refer to transparency and dynamics.
If you've ever listened to a (properly designed) >110dB horn system you know what those 2 aspects really entail.
Any kind of 'switching' affects/involves timing.
Optimized switching technologies work, because they approach/mimick continuity.
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