In Reply to: Initial Report, Film Cap 180 degree orientation - Employing new-style Clip Leads posted by drlowmu on August 18, 2016 at 08:24:26:
The only kind of speaker I'd be bothered to use - for hearing small changes at this level of 'experimenting' - is one with close to perfect impulse response. Sensitivity isn't an issue or a help here. Not at all.Speed and waveform integrity does, which are orthogonal with timing. Minimally (distantly) miked music with as few mikes in coincident / other 'stereo' arrays, would also be essential.
After all, science has taught us that we get most information about music - the affective information, with an a Geoff, like you tell us you care about, from the starting transient of all acoustic instrument's notes.
Timbre, expression / intent, timing and interplay.
VOTT A7s were good speakers in their day, but yours still have most of their flaws. Poor FR, poor / inconsistent directivity, and early onset overload of the main driver, due to excursion problems.
{;-)!!!!!!!!
Confirmation bias, run riot.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 08/19/16 08/19/16
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Follow Ups
- 100db speakers - like your A7 VOTTs?! You can't be serious. - Timbo in Oz 20:24:15 08/19/16 (8)
- RE: 100db speakers - like your A7 VOTTs?! You can't be serious. - PakProtector 17:59:24 08/23/16 (6)
- I would certainly not expect to hear nuances and small changes. - Timbo in Oz 22:08:36 08/23/16 (5)
- RE: I would certainly not expect to hear nuances and small changes. - PakProtector 13:45:11 08/24/16 (4)
- The 63s will run off two modified LEAK Stereo 20s, strapped and high-pass filtered at 150Hz - Timbo in Oz 14:50:19 08/24/16 (3)
- KEF B139s in TL cabinets - Lew 11:10:00 08/27/16 (0)
- Tim, The system will only be as good as the modded Leak Amps - drlowmu 00:29:46 08/25/16 (1)
- Go away Geoff. - Timbo in Oz 03:19:38 08/25/16 (0)
- RE: 100db speakers - like your A7 VOTTs?! You can't be serious. - drlowmu 15:32:29 08/21/16 (0)