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Old December 24th 07, 05:15 AM posted to rec.audio.tubes,uk.rec.audio
Eeyore
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Default The damping factor and the sound of real music



Andre Jute wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

Andre Jute wrote [to Patrick Turner]:

I have never been as impressed with ultra-low silicon-
level Rout as you are

Yeah, you're probably impressed by the phoney low end boost you get with
moving coil loudspeakers when driving them from a high outout impedance
(underdamped resonance). The phrase 'single note bass' comes to mind.


Nah. I have been going to live concerts and thinking seriously about
the music so as to be able to write about it for five decades now. I
know what reproduced music should sound like. If you want to know,
perhaps it is time for a guy your age, my dear Graham, to stop
pretending you're some kind of overage hipster, and replace those
boomboxes of yours with
a) a set of Mr Walker's marvellously precise electrostatic speakers
(ESL) and


Which don't have very much in the way of bass !


You must have heard that on the street corner where engineers who
cannot afford electrostats gather, Poopie.




It's a well known fact you complete idiot that electrostatics are bass light. It's
a natural consequence of their very construction.

Graham