On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:04:21 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:04:07 +0100, "Mike Gilmour"
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:06:54 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Dave xxxxx" wrote in message
.co.uk...
http://www.royaldevice.com/custom3.htm


want two lol

Yep, I gotta admit it - that *is* impressive!!! :-)

Not really, as the system would have worked better as an infinite
baffle arrangement, avoiding the need for all that concrete. Nice
technobabble bull****, though.................


I trust fellow 'sportsmen' here will note that I don't take an easy shot
at this 'low bird'...... ;-)

Best easy shot is with a http://photogallery.net/sub.jpg big sub......

When the not quite infinite baffles go down on that one, it leaves a
big hole in the ocean............. :-)

Shame that Keith doesn't understand cabin gain, and compression ratios
in horns, but then there's so much about audio that Keith obviously
doesn't understand......... :-)


No shame at all.

My 'audio learning curve' is not much longer than my subscription to this
group and I'm here to learn - never claimed any different and never made a
secret of it.

The real shame is that this group's not really up to it - all one can expect
here is an endless torrent of the same, meaningless, bigotted yap from a
very small minority (1.5 clowns) who have nothing useful to offer other than
pounce on every post and try to turn it into some sort of knob-waving
session. The biggest mystery to me is why do I continue to subscribe when,
even as I type, I have better things to do??? (A bit different in the
evening when I'm usually listening to music at the same time and I'm in the
mood for a litle mischief.... :-)

Thankfully, there are a multitude of seriously interesting and informative
sites on the Web like this one:

http://www.nutshellhifi.com/triode1.html

Read it carefully and you might learn something.

If you'll recall, my own suggestion for a *good* valve amp is a class
A triode P-P design.................

Of course, most of Olson's guff regarding actual *sound quality* in
that article is utter ********, since *any* decent SS power amp will
simply sound like its source component. All Olson is trying to do is
to get *back* to that sonic transparency under the handicap of using
valve technology. A fine aim for the curious hobbyist, but pointless
if you're just after a top-quality amplifier.

You will also see "Putting it less kindly, the good engineers went into the
commercial, instrumentation, and military sectors, while the not-so-good
engineers went into the high-fidelity business."

Thjat is indeed a very true statement, although the 'mainstream'
companies like Harman-Kardon, Meridian, Philips and Sony do have some
excellent engineers. I'm a military instrumentation guy myself.

Where does that leave
'self-styled wannabees' that are not 'engineers' at all, but work in places
like banks, sweeping up or whatever???

Ever wonder how Banks get all your statements and letters sorted out?
It's not a million clerks with quill pens, y'know! Well, maybe at
Coutts &Co................

We've just upgraded *some* of our kit at the shed where I work, cost
more than 7 million squids, paid for by you guys! :-)

(Out of interest, my brother is a real engineer who has worked in the
aerospace industry all his life - BAC/BAe and currently Matra Marconi......)

Out of interest, so did I until recently - Marconi Space and Defence,
Hughes Aircraft Company, and the Production Engineering Research
Association.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering