Eggleston Fontaines: a Correction.Two portions of the Eggleston Fontaine loudspeaker loudspeaker or speaker, device used to convert electrical energy into sound. It consists essentially of a thin flexible sheet called a diaphragm that is made to vibrate by an electric signal from an amplifier. review in issue 85 were inadvertently missing. The first missing section was flattering text that applied to the in-room response curve (which did print): "Some weeks went by, but I did not call the trucking company to come pick up these heavy babies. I had a small gnawing feeling that maybe I should do more what an audiophile An individual who is very interested and enthusiastic about the sound quality of a stereo or home theater system. Quality audio components are designed to reproduce the audio without adding any distortion or coloration. customer or dealer would do: experiment further with these speakers' positioning, back in the living room where I give my most severe scrutiny to audio components. I listened, and fussed with placement, and enjoyed steady Bach by pianist Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould[][] (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. , muscular Beethoven by pianist Stephen Kovacevich Stephen Kovacevich (born October 17, 1940), who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is a Croatian-American classical pianist and conductor. Kovacevich was born in San Pedro, California to a Croatian father and an American mother. , and John Fahey's quaint, hypnotic hypnotic /hyp·not·ic/ (hip-not´ik) 1. inducing sleep. 2. an agent that induces sleep. 3. pertaining to or of the nature of hypnosis or hypnotism. drone guitar. No boom this time, no deep bass, not a lot of air, but rich-Corinthian-leather midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually . The image of the instrument still floated. And the tonal balance and smooth mid sound were similar to, but better than, English speakers I analyzed 10-15 years ago from Celestion and KEF kef n. Variant of kif. . A new sweet-spot measurement confirmed improvements: Figure 2, below: With experimentation, the excess output in the 70-140 Hz bass octave was tamed to just about where you want it for a nice warm overall balance, and the ear-sensitive 2.5k-6k Hz octave-plus depression was filled in a bit. An impressive 60 Hz-16k Hz [+ or -] 5 dB, say, and again note the fine flat downward slope across the decade-plus from below 200 Hz to above 2kHz. Maybe not the most accurate speaker in the world, but awfully pleasing to listen to." [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] The second missing portion was the graph art meant to go with the Imagine That section, comprising curves of normalized horizontal radiation (normalized means the axis response is made ruler-flat), measured outside. The even striations in this figure show why the Eggleston Fontaine is a superior performer in its imaging. [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] -DRM |
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