Recent content by Holmz

I am in SoCal at the moment…

My point was that in running a business, then some people may not want to get that sidebar. Remember ~1/2 of the Americans voted for him. It is about as useful and wise as arguing religion. But it is your forum, and your right. You omitted a comparison between Mine Kampft and the Project 2025...

If the amps and the speaker are low distortion, then the system can sound quieter than a SPL says. To this Alan and I agree. The cause of it is where we disagree. Maybe just a speck above none… (But we would have to see the harmonic distortion plot of the amps.) And if it was down at 60dB and...

I’m not sure that taking sides in politics is worthwhile.

https://www.ioa.org.uk/system/files/proceedings/se_durbridge_aj_hill_j_taylor_the_effects_of_distortion_on_the_perception_of_loudness_in_live_sound.pdf How the ears work is pretty complicated stuff. There are also neurons that “head back” to the ear, so hearing is not a simplex systems going one...

And the flip side is that if one has a reflective room, then directivity is importantly, or a narrow directivity may be helpful. Yeah - obviously as you have a low distortion amp. The point was that many people do like some distortion. And usually the speaker’s distortion dominates what the...

20’x20’x10’ is about 6x6x3 meters. Which I think was about the size of the room we were in… ? Maybe have been 5x5x2.4m You’re kind of getting on the large size. It seemed pretty insane when I heard them. Or at least insane for a 2-way. (I was pretty impressed.)

It was not that small of a room, but it is also why I asked this question:

The Sointuva seemed to go plenty loud in your room, and bass was surprisingly “there”. I don’t now how they need to be played, but my NIOSH app was telling me that the time and level would make for a finite amount of listening. @SmartOne_2000 how big is the room that you are considering that...

They are pretty common for transmission line style of folded ports.

^true^ - but it is a fact that many people buy into that. So what I said was not a lie. A small amount of 2nd and 3rd, is a lot better IMO, than noise. An amp hissing like the local tiger snake or dugites is pretty grating to me.. Once you get to the P#01, Benchmark, etc. then the golden eared...

I had a Topping I ordered as well as an AIYAMA via Amazon. The topping hissed worse than a basket of snakes at a Pentacostal church revival. I swore to myself never to look at another of their products again. I keep the $70 USD AIYAMA, and returned the Topping for a refund. And recently got a...

Is that a vent at the bottom of the cabinet?

In anticipation of Alan’s answer… I can state that there is not a lot I hear as differences between various amps. Some older amps maybe a bit sibilant, and some sound thick (tube amps)… but most SS gear these days just seems to work. I have a pair of P501s, but haven’t listened to them per se…...

@JasonWells Then… they start sounding like the picture in my avatar… :cool: