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How to Create a Beautiful Sound Stage

Beyond Anything I believed possible!

I recently had the pleasure of being invited to Anthony Chipelo's home in Napa, CA.

After a year of listening to Anthony speak during SFAS Zoom Happy Hour Sessions

I was more that bit intrigued to hear his personal system. I will attempt to include a link to a short Video of his system.


What I heard for the 1st time was what people write about in terms of "Space between instruments".  This is something I am not equipped to accurately describe in words. All

I can say is the I saw a piano keyboard and sensed the hands moving across the keys

spatially. This was before the wine began to flow. 


From Anthony:


"Half the game or more is the imaging and soundstage that is engineered into the recording itself. The other critical factor is the proper amp/speaker match up. Then placement of speakers along with any work that you can do to the room to tame reflections and room modes. 

For me the preamp and source need to get out of the way. I know a lot of audiophiles think the preamp is what makes everything click. I’ll let them think that. When I set up my systems I start with the speakers first and work back. Some start with an amp and that is okay too, as long as the speakers are next".




Find out more

Power to Sensitivity to Distance Requirements

Horn In "Courtesy of TNT Forum"


[Amp Power]

The perpetual myth of horniness that horns speakers are supposed to suffer from just doesn't happen. Horniness is colouration brought about by either bad design of the horn or by resonances in the horn which amounts to the same thing. The multi cells are simple exponential flares kept small and solid as can be seen in the pictures. Once you have heard a properly built and set up horn speaker every other speaker you listen to will seem lacking. Even small Lowther type horns have the ability to bring out realism in music albeit at reduced volume. A reasonably simplistic primer in what your system needs to be capable of can be found here, What's in your Music, a more advanced work on loudness control by pianists (the piano is used here only as an example of sound pressure levels) Kinoshita et al.

Chapter List

Hegel, Borresen & Sanders Speak

Sub Woofer 101

Sound Level Calculator

How to Listen Critically

Music and the Brain

Room Acoustics

Am I hearing things?

Resources

New Hearing Loss Treatment

Free Streaming from Steinway

Watermark Listening Test

Nelson Pass on Power Supplies

How to select a Tube Preamp

With a transferable, lifetime guarantee. OH YEAH!!



Guide to Buying a Tube Preamp
So you want to buy a tube preamp? Good move- a tube preamp can be one of the most rewarding upgrades you can make to a stereo system.
Apart from a new set of speakers , a good tube preamp will give you the most audible change to your system.
But like speakers, there are good and not so good preamps , so what should you look for when previewing preamps?

http://www.supratek.com.au/guide-to-buying-a-tube-preamp.html

Sound level calculator

Sovereignty

https://myhometheater.homestead.com/splcalculator.html 

Streaming with Roon-How it Works

Streaming Basics

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Michael borresen on his craft

How to build a better box

(12) Interview Michael Borresen - Raidho : Scansonic : Aavik - YouTube (pdf)

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Easily understood explanation of BAss and the room relations

How TubeTraps opened up a Whole New Realm of Precision in the Performance of Audio Playback Systems (pdf)Download

why they amaze - videos from rmaf'19 sanders,hegel, borresen

IMG_3915 (MOV)Download
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IMG_3951 (MOV)Download

SubWoofer 101 by jl audio

Up Periscope- Don't get Smeared by a Sub

https://jlaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205061040-Adding-a-Home-Audio-Subwoofer

File Types explained IN AN UNDERSTANDABLE FORM

There's a guy doing videos regarding audio that I've come to respect quite a bit. His descriptions of everything audio are IMO, one of the best a easy to understand out there. His name is Hans Beekhuyzen and here is an example, of one, that I found very complete. He doesn't pretend to know more than he does, but his comments are based on his own experience and scientific fact, give it a watch.., I think you all will enjoy it as well as it being a learning experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NREJTmt180


Ben Taylor

Files coming soon.

News on Hearing

MIT on Brain-Music CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Follicle Regrowth CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Close your Eyes CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Listen How

CCF08062019_0003 Critical Listening Skills (pdf)

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Copland's Hat Trick CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Tinnitus, HyperAcusis

Tinnitus CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Am I hearing Things ? CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Grounds, Rooms & Cables

Unbalanced, Ungrounded and Unfounded CCF08062019 (pdf)

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Tom Hidley CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Speaker Cables Unravelled CCF12112019 (pdf)

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Audio Terminology and Room 101

Terminology CCF08062019_0005 (pdf)

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Acoustics 101 CCF08062019_0002 Avoiding Early reflections (pdf)

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Local Support and Sources

CCF09272019 Business Cards (pdf)

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Can you discern the Difference?

Free on line test.

Audio Watermark Listening Test (pdf)Download

Nelson Pass on Power Supplies

Some very good info for anyone in learn mode.

powersupply (pdf)Download
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