As I have a penchant for simply mic'd and minimally processed acoustic music I am very much in the real thing camp and will if necessary compromise one aspect of the system to support that. A good set of speakers should work well with all music, but us peasants sometimes have to chose 🙂
ridikas,
Why are you looking for NbTi? At temperatures above it's critical point, it has three basic properties.
1. It is darn near impossible to solder to.
2. It is a poor electrical conductor.
3. It is quite difficult to bend if it is thick enough to survive several amperes.
It is possible to take a small wire and strip the copper jacket either chemically or by prolonged immersion in a solder pot. However, the fine filaments of NbTi are flammable, they can be ignited by a static discharge.
jn
I have some MFSL LPs which sound very good: the original Beatles box set which I bought maybe 1982. Until the release of the FLAC versions on USB they were the finest releases of Beatles masters I have heard. Hardly flat sounding, they retained much of the studio dynamic which had been lost in many commercial pressings. They did not peak unlimit or do any other digital restoration, so they have the analog compression of the original 2-track masters, but they were pristine transfers. All in all, not a challenging transfer considering the potential for quality of the JVC vinyl and pressing, but the result was quite good.
Of course, it helped to be a Beatles fan...
Cheers,
Howie
Really cool, I never would have tried that myself.
Was it a lubricated process or dry?
I ask because I have had to contend with copper that had been lubricated during forming, drawing, and machining. All three tend to force lubricant into any pores of the metal, then covered by subsequent working such that cleaning processes will not remove it all. The end result is a part that when soldered using non activated flux (R), the oils will evolve and cause the surface to passivate, destroying solderability. The LHC learned that the hard way, as their piece parts used for interconnects had roughly 90% dewetting when immersed into a solder pot with R type flux. Activated flux cannot be used because the zinc chloride breaks down to HCl in heat, that attacks all the stainless steel vacuum bellows (5 to 10 mils thick, .005-.010 inch) when carried in the helium stream.
jn
That´s not fair game- because by birth i´m obliged to agree that more beer is always a good idea.... 🙂
Beside that i think you´ve posted a non sequitur wrt "wire with gain"
Not sure if i misread your post as i was actually describing what Stokowski reportedly liked while working with the people that did the first public demonstration of stereo broadcasting in the usa around 1930.
Maybe i´m able to find it in the archive, i once had seen a picture from that time where Stokowski was doing the controls at the reproduction site while Harvey Fletcher was standing behind him with a skeptical look on his face, as if questioning himself if Stowkoski would do to much....
Which proves my point that this is a beer level discussion.
Aside: I have no issue with tonal modification controls when used to enhance pleasure as long as they have a bypass. Wayne K is doing some interesting experiments with conversion from L/R to M/S and then filtering each channel separately before combining back. I could be tempted to get a DEQ2496...
Mid/side processing is very common in mastering, probably in radio broadcast processing, etc. Nothing new.
Yes, but has never been disussed for home reproduction, which is the interesting part. Wayne does make stuff for mastering which is where this came from.
As time passes the Beatles become more and more forgettable to me, overlooked 60's artists like for instance Steve Marriott have actually stood the test of time better. About now my favorite Beatles tune is "You Know my Name".
Only Beatles song some of the jazz guys seemed think was legitimate was Michelle.
You know about rhythm changes, right?
You know about rhythm changes, right?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Does a violin sound the same in Denver as in Seattle?
Does a violin sound the same in Denver as in Seattle?
Nope never heard of them, one does not need to know how a clock is made to tell the time. If I asked the audiophiles to learn systems and Fourier theory to better hear the reproduction of music how far do you think I would get?
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Probably not a chance the air density at that difference probably has to make a difference to someone trained to hear it.
Luckily I am at the same altitude as the concert halls I tend to frequent give or take a couple of feet.
Herbie Hancock put it this way: Basically, there are two kinds of jazz, 12-bar and rhythm changes. The latter is explained here: Rhythm changes - Wikipedia
Engineers are technical, the ones at DIYAudio like music, you never learned how music works?
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