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Headphoneus Supremus • High Fidelity Gentility • redrum....I mean redshifter • Pee-pee. Hoo-hoo. • I ♥ Garfield
nice review, macdoog.
i noticed one of your aurgasm tracks is "jupiter and beyond...", which fyi is by a composer named legiti, the kyrie from his requiem. it's one of my favorite goosebumps tracks too.
It's a dirty great rolling blue ocean of a review and I love it; a PhonoDome Brothers Royal Command Performance In Space kind of review, a starspangled Sons Of Dylan Thomas kind of review, the kind of review you only come across once in a roaring picaresque lifetime of blue oceanic.. rolling... Falstaffian... phonodomes.
But never mind that. Now you know why those of us who own AMT-based speakers love them and stoutly defend their reputation with vicious slander aimed squarely at the attacker's mother. Some of us even have AMTs sprinkled around our domiciles, on knicknack shelves, on bookshelves, in household shrines with dramatic wallwasher downlighting, just to have them always near and to remind us to be simple, efficient and clever, with piercingly clear voices.
The only way to get deep bass out of an AMT is to make it into an IEM, and that's not likely to come to market. A suitable equalized amplifier will have dynamic circuitry to limit level and/or bass boost, similar to the old KLH Model One's socalled analog bass computer, so that the AMT is never overdriven, no matter what's fed to it. It would also be nice to do the EQ digitally. Well, some day.
Duggeh, is the AMT's motion damped in any way? Any foam or wool or felt pressed against it?
The upper and lower areas of the driver on the outside facing edge do appear to be covered by some sort of wolly material held in place by tape, as evident from the photos, the inside facing edge has this also but not over as great an area. Although I was not prepared to peal it back to see the exact details.
As for you EQ in the amp suggestion. I believe the AMP2 is a full class A with a meticulously designed EQ curve. The Amp1 imho could use a lift of a few db at around 40hz to give the sound a bti more meat. This might be accomplished with a beefier power supply, but given the amps topology I doubt it.
Why do you ask abot the padding? What purpose does it serve? Some sort of resonance control? If theres one design flaw id cite with the construction of the headphones its the poor way in which the drivers are affixed to the housings.
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