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PE Leon Integrales - Playing The Royal Flying Doctor from Oz to Canada
A lonely pair of PE Leon Integrales in Winnipeg - Canada If you were to "Google" PE Leon Integrale, you will find many entries on various forums telling the sad and sorry story of Perry G, a Canadian...
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PE Leon Integrales - Episode 2 - Initial assessment
The original crossover as we found eventually - note the burnt resistor on the bottom left. The crossover I inherited at the start of the process My first assessment was to find out what drivers were...
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PE Leon Integrales - Episode 3 - Remote Measurement Set Up
AudioTools iAudioInterface2 ready for your iOS device I personally use this fabulous little device to design speakers and measure them (obviously not to make coffee...lol) This, together with a decent...
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Scoop: Elipson to release new speakers for Habitat in Septembre 2013
TIMBER 9on the left) and LENNY, the new babies of Elipson and Habitat You can now be a design addict AND a digital nomad hifi enthusiast, thanks to the joint-venture between HABITAT - of Terence...
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PE Leon Integrales - Episode 4
We started our remote assessment by using the RTA function of Audio Tools, a rather crude measurement, but one that a novice to measuring speakers could perform "unsupervised"...In retrospect, we...
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PE Leon Integrales - Episode 5
At that stage, I thought I had enough information to come up with a proper schematic of how and why. the filter should be wired. This wiring diagram uses all the right components, and are properly...
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PE Leon Integrales - Episode 6
After Perry's elogious email, I was obviously quite happy with the result, and I thought it would be good to review everything to document the process and make sure we were the closest possible from...
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PEL Integrale - Episode 7 - A last minute twist in the story
The real McCoy - Crossover schematic supplied by PE Leon During the last stages of our conversations, and after finally finding the real configuration for the Integrales crossover, Perry G shouted a...
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Sonab OA14 refurbishement
Before... Before my intervention, one of the drivers was dead and the tweeter was filtered by a nasty electrolytic capacitor and its level was far too high, resulting in very harsh sound.I first...
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Melbourne Hifi Show - October 18th - 20th, 2013 - Don't miss Kronos the new...
The new Kronos from Kyron Audio - photo supplied If you have a tight schedule at the Show, then go straight to Room 312 to listen to the new Kronos by Kyron Audio.You know of my keen interest for open...
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Australian Audio & AV show Melbourne October 18-20 2013 - Episode 1
The Venue: Intercontinental Hotel at Rialto Towers One can count on Melbourne for classy architecture! And this renovation is certainly the proof in the pudding.On top, we had fabulous weather and the...
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Australian Audio & AV Show Melbourne October 18-20 2013 - Episode 2
Sources More and more people were using digital files on iPads, PCs, Macs, streamers of all sorts, so it was quite frustrating to see just a few CD players and a reasonable quantity of turntables. Here...
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Australian Audio & AV Show Melbourne October 18-20 2013 - Episode 3
Speakers Well, this is always my favourite part of going to any hifi show. I am still fascinated after more than four decades being in the trade to see how many people are still designing new - or not...
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Australian Audio & AV Show Melbourne October 18-20 2013 - Episode 4
A bit of valves indulgence... Let me say first that as most of us geeks and idiophiles we love looking at valve amps and we carry that romantic notion that they sound better than solid state. Being an...
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Microphase upgrade
The new tweeter upgrade for the Microphase SATs For the last twelve months, I have been involved in designing speakers again after a 30 years hibernation!I can't tell you just yet what I have been up...
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Metronome Technologie new Kalista Ultimate SE + Nausicaa DAC
Metropole Technologie new Kalista Ultimate SE CD player It is certainly more expensive than my humble OPPO player, and you need to add the Nausicaa DAC and base to do the same things. It will set you...
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Forget vinyl: Tape is the New Deal
Stellavox SP8 + ABR I once went into debt to acquire one of these beautiful machines and wish I didn't sell it in the early 80s. At the time, it was still possible to rock up (!) to some concerts, set...
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Start 2014 in music and style
Edison Cylinder player found in an antique shop in Carmel, CA
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The Absolute Sound publishes "Illustrated History of High-End Audio -...
And I just received my numbered - 530 - copy today! It is a beautiful book and I did what we all do, look at the pictures first and read a few articles, before digging deeper into the thick of it!Only...
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