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In Reply to: RE: and they... umm... tend towards harshness :-p posted by Paul Eizik on October 27, 2023 at 10:34:01
This is why I say, ABANDON SHIP on 65 year old technology and BUY tweeters from B&C or Faital or BMS, or anyone else making modern compression super tweeters. NOT WORTH THE EFFORT AND DOLLARS AND TIME.
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It all comes down to the equipment break-in time effect, which is much discussed in audiophile circles. Mem-ristance, or memory resistance is actually being studied in the ever increasing effort to miniaturize the transistor for computers, as the electrical resistance of a conductor can change when it is used in an operating circuit. Also being looked at is mem-inductance and mem-capacitance, as scientists had wondered why the basic electrical perameters of resistance, capacitance and inductance were a 3 part package when most physical forces had two opposing parts. Adding the 3 missing "mem" components to the basic 3 makes for a 6 part field of perameters which are nicely divisible by 2. The reason why all the old audio stuff is still valued is that it's taken some 65 years to break it in! Tom Brennan has posed the question here once of "How come it never sounds worse?" after the requisite break in time some audiophiles claimed. And the answer is "It can, and sometimes does". That is why audiophiles are always looking to upgrade their equipment. And the manufacturers are aware of this of course.
What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander Dept.
A seldom looked at factor in audio is the break-in effect on the audiophile's hearing. It has been said on this forum that if the audiophile is in the 64+ year old class, that they cant hear anything over 12K Hz. This is likely a mixed blessing as CRT screens, with their flyback transformers singing at some 13K Hz, are disappearing from everyday life. I can hear the 16K Hz test signal on the Stereophile Test CD on my EV T350's, so that must make me super human in that regard. However I cant hear the 20K signal track, though the test microphone can. It's just as well as at 20K it's just all bat chirps, and that would drive me nuts. Tom Danley has said that in his investigations that you probably could ear a 20K Hz signal "If it's loud enough", but I aint gonna use my tweeters as fuses. Even a 300B SET amp could blow em.
Paul
Don't yell, Claude.
Edits: 10/28/23
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