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Bass/speaker excursion issues

Hi, 

 

With some recordings, often time Chesky recordings and the example I experienced today was with Patricia Barbers "Higher" sacd song Surrender, the very low frequencies will cause the speakers to have extreme excursion to the point where I'm concerned it could do damage to the speaker. Has anyone experienced this and is there a solution other than turning the volume way down? It is usually just one or two songs on a CD. This is not a frequent occurrence but one that is a problem.

whataboutbob1
whataboutbob1 OP
34 posts
 

But..... even with the DSP in place with the previous amplifiers, the carry amps, it still did the large Excursion thing. And again it's only on a few tracks that have really low base.

Maybe I should just be grateful for the great sound I get on 99% of the music that I listen too and press skip I know that have this anomaly.

erik_squires
16,056 posts
 

OP

You are living in a darkness born of myth, and I wish I could point you to all the threads on A'gon that go something like "omg, I raised the crossover point on my speakers and they sound so much better!"

The higher crossover point minimizes distortion by leaps and bounds and it is completely a positive thing.

whataboutbob1 OP
34 posts
 

Erik squires: in order for me to try that I think I would need to do one of two things? One would be to have a DSP device to help divide the frequencies going to the speaker and to the sub? The other would be to run speaker wires directly to the subwoofer and then run another set of speaker wires from the subwoofer to the main speaker? Or are there easier ways to do this?

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