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| The best tweeter is no tweeter Most AMT will not have a good low frequency response compared to the typical dome tweeter, which means you have to cross them with a rather steep slope - most likely a 4th order slope. Having a high order slope in itself will have its own sound s... | |
| So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again... With all joking aside, I’m confident that from the listening position, a half dozen strategically placed throw pillows can influence sound more than any speaker wire, no matter how much it costs or which direction the arrows are pointing. It also ... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. Eliminating resistances of the inductors and phase shift and delay of the caps. Nope, you can't eliminate phase shift even with active. | |
| Speaker size and soundstage ^^^ The "strange noise" probably came from Glenn Gould himself :-) | |
| Speaker size and soundstage In general the bigger the speakers the bigger the soundstage. There are a few exceptions just like everything else in life. | |
| Audio Engineering Society and cables "The difference between low end and high end audio is what occurs below 40db"It's the low level details that make or break. | |
| Speakers The single most critical component I actually agree that speakers are the most important component in the playback chain. Then you work your way back. Next would be your amp then preamp then the source. After that it would be the cables and interconnects. | |
| Cables ... no longer opinion I tried Goertz foil diy cables in the past though they sound decent they lacked transparency. Probably has high amount of capacitance. You can fine tune them by using fancy dielectric but beyond the diy realm. In the end it is not any one geome... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. Concerning the OP Paradigm Founder Series 120H, they are basically 3-way with built-in sub, so I wouldn't say these speakers are active in the traditional sense. | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. ^^^ If done right active can sound good but the complexity is probably not worth it. You will need external amp and dedicated ADC per channel which won't come cheap. Most people won't put up with all that external equipment. Cheap miniDSP stuff... | |
| Audio Engineering Society and cables Well if all cables sound the same then God probably did something wrong. | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. Active has a lot of limitations. And not only that the complexity is not worth it. For low end to mid fi, may make some sense. But high end will always be passive. | |
| testing a crossover The mid xover is a bandpass network and tweeter is high pass network which means if you measure the resistance, it should read "infinite resistance" or something very high. It's interesting that both left and right channel all read 0ohm.As for th... | |
| Audio Engineering Society and cables Reading to figure out 2+2=4? Now if they got a paper on how to measure soundstage then maybe they got something interesting to read. | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? OP probably never heard of "phase". |