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Quadral Quintus 130 (German made items - OEM'd with a 4 and 8 ohm option on the back) claimed as giving 30Hz to 25,000Hz and a Luxman L3 integrated 35w/8ohm.The Quadrals have just been overhauled with new Xover boards and film caps, OEM coils, and new Rs. Several OEM Rs eliminated and it now only has a 6 ohm connection, and no power wasting R.
The Luxman has been my longest lasting integrated amp / receiver, and now back in use. I'll soon be putting it in to have its class-A working range increased, just a bit.
The baby Yamaha MS20s self-powered 2-ways (solid stiff metal enclosures!) in use before in the study - have gone in to be be checked and overhauled - and Class-A upped, before they go to Son 1 as spkrs for his networked HD TV. New 'film' caps to the tweeters, too!
For the perfectionists, my listening ear height is between the mid and tweeter!
First listen just now. They do, actually get down quite low.
Way lower than the Yamaha MS20S' which die at 70Hz, steeply. They are 6th? order active assisted from the era when Yamaha were doing that.
Just been listening to the Black Watch marching the Royal Mile in Edinburgh escorting the Scottish Crown to the Scottish Parliament for QEII's visit. The bass drum sounds realistic on these.
Click below!?
Patricia is telling me it is TOO loud, and she's wrong.
Most of my drilling and marching was done to Pipes and Drums, here in Aussie.
With the Gurkhas too, who march at Light-Infantry/Rifle pace of 140/m not 120/m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Dw6VSLNi8
but to bugles and drums with The Royal Green Jackets (now part of The Rifles.)
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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I had not seen it.... There is not a lot of info on this speaker in the U.S. -- They appear to me to be much larger than I was looking for. I was looking for Tiny ones about 8 inches high.
Cut-Throat
Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards and others at the RPI Field House. Wifey whilst in school in Edinburgh actually worked the Tattoo as a Red Cross volunteer.
Memory suggests I like the Coldstream Guards best.
Still have a bunch of recordings.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Very distracting and quite emotional for me.
Hi Dave, and TIA ....
You may have noticed that they usually carry their rifles at the trail, not shouldered.
With ordinary 'red' infantry we march with arms 'shouldered'. But, with the FN FAL aka SLR L1A1 to us, we shouldered the long thing under our arm carrying it by the pistol grip. The SLR was heavy even without the mag full of 20 rds, and it got quite tiring on that one arm...
? Going back to the Black Watch clip, you may have noticed them doing "Change Arms" by company.
In the Drill Manual for the SLR there was a 'change arms' drill, too. So from the time I found it in the manual, me and a mate taught all the various companies, that we taught drill to, to do it.
The first time I gave that order to ANU Company on our way off a battalion parade. I got roared at by the CO, and was happy [;-)] to respond with a LOUD, 'It's in the drill manual, SIR!' and just kept going! ;-)
We never got on, as you may recall?! :-)
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
They came once a year for "jungle" exercises.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Those guys taught me that you -can- run down a hill in full kit, and a rifle, and NOT fall over or hurt yourself!!
Why would you want to do that, and do it well?
Ask?!
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Before I could afford even the minimal Grado 80e headphones I have now, I'd turn my panels facing each other about 3 feet apart and LIE DOWN between them.
Very near field and like headphones wtihout the bother of headphones.
3 or 4 clicks 'off the bottom' and it was wonderful.
Too much is never enough
Probably 99% of my listening is with these old Stax headphones.
I do have a set of NSM Model 5s that have been used for nearfield but I love the headphones.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
Good planar phones - are - the other option.Mine are new - Audio Technica ATH-AD1000X. I'll dig out my Headroom Traveller-Pack amp soon, for them, as it has the 3D circuit built-in.
While the ATs might not be quite STAX-like I am happy with them. And, I sold quite a few STAX 'phones, and know them well.
At one time it was my ambition to own a pair of off the ear & angled in 'stat 'phones, that that did do 3D, like spkrs can.
I borrowed a pair of Jecklin Floats, and they just kept falling off whenever I moved my head. The sound was VERY good, but that was the end of that idea.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 09/22/18 09/22/18
I used to work shifts, and if I wanted to hear music I needed headphones.
Then the kids came along and my prime listening time was late at night when everyone else was asleep. Headphones again.
When my ex-wife and I split, it was apartment living and once again headphones. A live-in ex-GF hated my music (I hated hers too but put up with it anyway). Once again, headphones.
It's got to the point that music doesn't sound right to me on speakers. For years, my system was headphone only.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
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is their inability to create a three dimensional sound stage.
Yes I know that headphones can excel at articulation and timbre, but if that is all they have to offer, why not go back to monophonic sound?
JE
Like it's in my head and all around it.
But I've been using them as my primary listening source for decades.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
But it does require a special circuit.My Head-ROOM Traveller Pack came with Etymotic in-ear phones, and an amp with processing - which was compromised to suit both those and my dear old Sennheiser 414s and HD40s.
I was travelling for work a LOT, from about 1996, and that kit, plus an Airline two-to-one plug adaptor. A good 'international' Sony Walkman & AM/FM all in one, plus a portable CDPlayer - kept me in music, and helped with long flights.
For me - the 3D effect from the Head-Room circuit was acceptable.
The image seemed to sit in front of me and was just wide enough and just deep enough.
I went through a lot of batteries, though. Eventually I bought a universal charger for D-Cells, AAs and AAAs.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 09/22/18
Are those the ones I sent you?
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"Happy The Man who can tread thy paths and climb thy ways"
I'm using them right now, in fact. The self biasing box has a quirk or two but to my ears sounds better than the older box that needs wall current.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
The toccata and fugue in D on big German, baroque organ.
Good enough to please a cathedral chorister? yep.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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