Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern) ???


Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern)

MANY Vintage Speakers had/have Level Controls, and a few big speaker arrays had external equalizers.

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Many of you know It’s my contention ALL SPEAKERS should have Level Controls, to refine their frequency distribution in your space at your positioning in that space, and re-adjust for any space you move/use them in.

L-Pads retain impedance shown to the crossover; Potentiometers alter what is shown to the crossover a bit.

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Just stumbled about these

2 Altec Lansing speaker crossovers N800-8K

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313970394857

 

 

JBL’s

Bose 901

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My Uncle’s 1958 Fisher President II (Large 3 way, horns and big woofer) had/have 2 L-Pad level controls

 

AT-37’s used in many of their consoles and separates.

https://products.electrovoice.com/binary/AT37%20and%20AT38%20EDS.pdf

PRESENCE: for Mid-Range Horn’s Volume Control, relative to he 15" woofer with no control

BRILLIANCE: for Tweeter’s Horn’s Volume Control, relative to the mid-range.

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My AR-2ax (compact 3 way cones) had/have 2 Level Controls

I just restored 2 pairs for my Office and Garage/Shop Systems

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/10092

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MANY Vintage Speakers had/have Level Controls, and a few big speaker arrays had external equalizers.

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Do Your Speakers have LEVEL CONTROLS or EQUALIZERS? (Vintage or Modern)

 

 

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When I designed my DIY triamplified horn speakers a DEQX DSP  was an integral part of the design.  I wanted bass folded corner horns back in the corners and midrange and super tweeter horns well out in the room where they could image better.  The DEQX corrected the large time difference between the woofers and the mids.  The room correction facility, a ten band parametric equalizer,  of the DEQX proved to be very useful and beneficial.