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by sunbeamgls
2023-11-19 23:04
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Whilst the 212s I had a while were very tuneful, I felt that life was robbed from the music so perhaps that was the relatively complex crossover. Either that, or Tundra Monos do not have enough grunt for them, or my setup skills were not good enough. I do like the influence of a dedicted midrange u...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-19 22:59
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Making very small changes in the crossover and/or using different crossover steepness can as you say completely change the sound of a loudspeaker - from bad to very good sounding. Further , an active crossover ( dsp or IC based ) is always placed before the drivers and those can never regain whats ...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-19 22:11
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Today I went to a hifi show where all 5 rooms featured the new Naim 200 or 300 series electronics. Speakers as follows: B&W 801 D4 Dynaudio Confidence 60 Focal Utopia Diablo Kudos Titan 808 Kef Blade Two Every room sounded harsh and, somehow, over exaggeratedly detailed. But, more importantly, not ...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-19 17:21
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Today I went to a hifi show where all 5 rooms featured the new Naim 200 or 300 series electronics. Speakers as follows: B&W 801 D4 Dynaudio Confidence 60 Focal Utopia Diablo Kudos Titan 808 Kef Blade Two Every room sounded harsh and, somehow, over exaggeratedly detailed. But, more importantly, not o...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-18 23:59
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Some of you on the thread might be impressed with the simplicity of the 3-way crossover in the Kudos Titan 808 - Kudos are very much in favour of selecting drive units and cabinet designs that deliver as much of the crossover as possible, supplementing with the crossover itself only where the driver...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-18 23:54
Forum: HiFi
Topic: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?
Replies: 154
Views: 917634

Re: What Makes a Loudspeaker Musical?

Having "messed about" with some of my own speaker designs and modified existing speakers with different drive units and designed tens of digital crossovers, its very clear to me that a loudspeaker is a system and not a hierarchy as such. Designing a fabulous crossover without knowing the characteris...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-18 23:02
Forum: HiFi
Topic: Good sounding vintage gear - examples
Replies: 22
Views: 25603

Re: Good sounding vintage gear - examples

I would add the following:

Dual CS505-1
Nagaoka MP-11
Rotel RB-850
Original Musical Fidelity A1 (when it hadn't frazzled itself)
Original Mission 700
Linn Keilidh
Linn Katan
Linn Ninka
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-18 22:08
Forum: For Sale
Topic: ***SOLD*** Linn Ekwal Centre Speaker
Replies: 0
Views: 28494

***SOLD*** Linn Ekwal Centre Speaker

Now ***SOLD*** thanks. FOR SALE: Linn Ekwal centre speaker. Maple. Excellent condition (one tiny rear corner chip, some light marks on the under side). Fully working. Complements Espek, Katan, Ninka, Keltiks etc. Replaced the AV5120 in the range. Can be operated single wire, bi-wire, bi-active or tr...
by sunbeamgls
2023-11-11 00:20
Forum: For Sale
Topic: ***SOLD*** Brand New Majik 109s in Black
Replies: 1
Views: 902

***SOLD*** Brand New Majik 109s in Black

***SOLD***

These will only have been opened to check they work correctly and there arw no marks on the cabinets.
All packaging, documents etc. will be included as will approx 4 years and 11 months warranty.
Expected to be available after 6 December.

£900 plus shipping at cost.
by sunbeamgls
2023-10-30 19:09
Forum: For Sale
Topic: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Final Price Reduction
Replies: 8
Views: 4599

Re: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Final Price Reduction

Final price reduction to £1595.

If it doesn't sell at this bargain price, its going in the second system :)
by sunbeamgls
2023-10-01 15:45
Forum: Inside
Topic: Damping an Akurate Radikal?
Replies: 12
Views: 15512

Re: Damping an Akurate Radikal?

Ping to our loudspeaker designers on the forum! Being a frankestein speaker hacker, can't comment from personal hacking work! However, a recent visit to Kudos revealled that they also use trial and error to determine things like panel thicknesses for the Titan inner cabinet (each panel has one of a...
by sunbeamgls
2023-10-01 15:38
Forum: Inside
Topic: Damping an Akurate Radikal?
Replies: 12
Views: 15512

Re: Damping an Akurate Radikal?

I think Fredrik's right. Unless you're prepared to experiment with many materials and locations, you'd be very luck to hit on exactly the right one at first attempt. I also think that Linn probably won't have done their homework as thoroughly as I expect Fredrik would. As far as I recall the Akurate...
by sunbeamgls
2023-09-26 12:20
Forum: For Sale
Topic: ***SOLD*** Keilidh Mid-bass Driver SPKR013/1 Price Reduced
Replies: 1
Views: 652

***SOLD*** Keilidh Mid-bass Driver SPKR013/1 Price Reduced

In excellent condition.
£29 plus shipping at cost.
by sunbeamgls
2023-07-19 10:13
Forum: HiFi
Topic: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...
Replies: 69
Views: 131468

Re: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...

I didn't say it was relevant to reproducing music. What I was saying is that it is relevant to marketing to a wider audience. Ahh, right. So take the path of least resistance and just tell ‘em what they want to hear, regardless of whether it makes any sense or not, just as long as they fall for the...
by sunbeamgls
2023-07-19 08:09
Forum: HiFi
Topic: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...
Replies: 69
Views: 131468

Re: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...

I think this kind of comment is aimed at those who would understand what it means to remove noise and distortion Surely, this comment is a bit paradoxical? What does it mean to remove noise and distortion in equipment whose primary purpose is to reproduce music? As far as I’m aware, no measure of n...
by sunbeamgls
2023-07-18 19:09
Forum: HiFi
Topic: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...
Replies: 69
Views: 131468

Re: LP12 50: If Jony Ive made record players...

It appears to be yet another indication that Linn have moved away from ensuring musicality is baked into their products. Their targets are now low noise and distortion, even though there’s absolutely no evidence to support the idea that lowering noise and distortion has any relationship to increase...
by sunbeamgls
2023-05-10 18:06
Forum: For Sale
Topic: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Final Price Reduction
Replies: 8
Views: 4599

Re: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Price Reduction

Additional price reduction.

Now £1695
by sunbeamgls
2023-04-12 18:57
Forum: For Sale
Topic: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Final Price Reduction
Replies: 8
Views: 4599

Re: Tundra Stereo 2.5 Immaculate, Boxed. Price reduced

Just a little bump to remind folks of this musical bargain :)
by sunbeamgls
2023-03-29 13:48
Forum: Lejonklou
Topic: Tundra Mono 3
Replies: 194
Views: 432648

Re: Tundra Mono 3

Congrats Fredrik, looking forward to hearing them.
by sunbeamgls
2023-03-13 21:47
Forum: Me and My system
Topic: Sunbeam's Rig
Replies: 93
Views: 129832

Re: Sunbeam's Rig

For those who like to truly geek-out, I finally updated the system diagram. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBoQYGsg2kxA2DaVC3Jzu_I_9lpxzy9Wdl3dmf_piz8pYTfNMd3ojx4RefFTGIqCyNo-rw81Mnan1e3dBhHvovX9F9aFcOU7nAb7qiktXz76R5doGhYtM-j4c70Wkb5iP-V0_i1u3Urz6LOPjDJfAQ653iDdI0Uj7Ci9...