audio reproduction gear, music and other stuff
I don’t really know why I decided to build these particular speakers, which were introduced to the public through the pages of Hobby HiFi magazine. Perhaps it was the unusual concept that caught my attention in the first place — a two-way design combining a long-excursion 4.5-inch woofer with a 3-inch dome tweeter in a relatively compact yet extremely rigid enclosure.
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March is slowly approaching its end, and this reminds me that I haven’t written anything on this blog for quite some time. The reason is simple: not much has been happening here, although some interesting topics have been circulating in my email exchanges with Biju and Peter recently.
I have to confess that I had been growing impatient lately, counting down the days until the opening of the main audio event in northern Germany — Norddeutsche HiFi-Tage. The fact that the city I live in hosts the second-largest audio show in Germany makes me feel fortunate, because it is a great opportunity, costing me practically nothing, to align my expectations and internal reference with what is considered top-notch audio reproduction today.
Today I would like to talk about a method for adjusting an audio system with the help of recorded natural sounds. Why natural sound recordings? There are several reasons, but the aim is to make it easier to refer to real-life acoustic events. The first point is that such recordings are made in open spaces—somewhere in the woods or in the fields—which means they are stripped of room resonances and reverberation. Although close-miked studio recordings also eliminate most environmental acoustic artefacts, the resonances and reverberation inherent to the musical instruments themselves may overlap with the reverberation modes of the listening room, making the two relatively difficult to distinguish.
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It all started with my love for music. We did not have proper audio equipment back in the 1980s, which in Bulgaria were dominated by cheap Russian transistor electronics. I was first introduced to what could be considered an advanced audio system in the home of my drawing teacher, where I attended lessons together with a group of other children.
