Recent content by studio_est

A bit OT I know, but I have only seen one other pair of these in the world. They have to rate as the most perfect surround rear speakers ever invented,or certainly I ever heard... There's a "diffusion plate" in the top at an angle to the driver which is sited vertically. The whole thing is...

FYI most of the time I usually use a vintage pair of A R Sugden Connoisseur omni-directional speakers. I swopped the drivers because the originals were frankly not great, and installed some well known and highly rated full ranges in them. That transformed them. They are basically the rear...

The strict answer, I can't take my speaker system on a train, or on a plane, so no choice, but a/c are noisy. I can install it in the car (I have a specialised valve amp in car, c/w DSP & ARM based SBC as media centre), so with all that firepower I can defeat headphones in my own car (and hear...

Absolutely don't agree. Senn HD800 are not "hi end" they are the usual rather banal SENN sound as started in the 650 series. The rest all depends on level of technical competence. Being as I designed and built my own system, I could honestly say not a single pair of headphones I have ever...

The image with headphones is always behind. It's one of the reasons (good) sound engineers are taught headphones are "toilet" no matter how good they claim to be....not to be used unless absolutely neccessary. I use them just and solely to get some "vague idea" if some mix is disastrous or...

All people's ear channel resonant frequency varies. Linkwitz also speared the dreaded 7khz resonance caused by the pressure gradient/air volume syndrome. This means headphones always place the image behind the head, and at best any evaluation of a headphone will be subjective and based on:- 1/...

More marketing hype (yet again!). Where is Mr Linkwitz when we need him?