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I’ve started a new dipole project, using the BG Neo3 PDR, Mark Audio CHR-70 (version I), and a pair of Exodus Audio DPL-10s (no longer in production, sadly). I’ve dubbed it “Francesca” for no particularly good reason. This project is an exercise for me to learn more about speaker measurement. Also, I want to see what can be done to make a dipole speaker for use in small rooms – or more specifically my study, which is 2.7m wide by 4.3m deep. I also wanted to experiment with getting dipole radiation from 30/40 Hz up to 20,0000 Hz. High output is not one of theRead More →

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The word “musicality” is bandied about in hifi circles a bit, but what does it mean? If you look for a definition with Google, you will end up with something like “Musicality is a noun that means sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music.” (From Wikipedia.) You might wonder what that has to do with hifi… and I’ve wondered about that myself quite a lot… so I suppose that in a way, that is what this blog is about – the pursuit of “musicality” in hifi. And what is “hifi”? By most any definition it would mean something along the lines of high-quality (“highRead More →