Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene


Recognizing member and contributor @audiokinesis for this award!!!

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/2019-golden-ear-awards-robert-e-greene/
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Showing 7 responses by luisma31

First @audiokinesis congrats on this very well deserved award, you guys have changed the way I enjoy music and I was very lucky to find you. Needless to say Duke your altruistic attitude is a quality very scarce these days on this modern world.
Thank you everyone else posting as I actually have noticed a few tricks I could use to improve my AK swarm
Now, @cal3713
Interesting comment, I am using a tube preamp but going 1st to a Jensen balanced to single ended isolator which impedance is 39 kohm, in this case the tube preamp is presented with the transformer impedance not the SA1000's one, need to find out if my preamp have output capacitors.I have been considering splitting my digital source output as today my preamp is feeding my mono's and the Dayton's and when the Daytons are connected the speakers connected to the mono's changes sound, maybe because of the impedance change. This will allow some digital filtering sending 60 Hz and below to the Daytons and 60 Hz and above to my monos (need to ask Duke about the exact frequency as I also have his speakers)

Thanks Tim, I thought the bottom octave was technically 11-22 Hz (not that I can hear anything there), then you have 22-44 Hz and 44-88 HzSo what you guys speaker / audio equipment experts refer to as the "bottom octave" would be as you are describing 32 Hz (possibly what we most can hear) and 88 Hz?

use the Swarm to fill in the bottom octave or so.

@audiokinesis just checking, this means 88 hz and below right?


That being said, there are work-arounds if the need arises to cross over higher up

@audiokinesis no no no, with your midbass driver I think the 80 hz works wonderful, actually I run mine 60 below, don't you dare touch my crossover Duke, sounds perfect the way it is

I have frightening dreams about being attacked by a swarm of woofers...otherwise yeh, I get it.
My Swarm is trained not to attack, you have 2 subs? That's heresy :) with your perfect speakers


I understand very interesting, just the subs closer to the speakers at 140 (because the listener been able to pinpoint their location) and the other 2 at 80 to make it sound more natural, very cleverI guess speakers that are weak between 80 and 140 are not very common or is it?