audiokinesis
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| Speaker set up for more than 1 person Time/intensity trading (speaker axes criss-crossing in front of the listening area) has been described and/or alluded to several times in this thread. I have been building speakers deliberately designed to be compatible with a time/intensity trad... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns I don’t think anybody makes a modern woofer with parameters rivaling those of the Altec 416-8b and 416-8z, so it is rare to find an equivalent speaker today that offers a combination of efficiency and low-end extension similar to that of the Model... | |
| Speaker choice without need for deep bass @kraftwerkturbo wrote: "the next speaker design I want to try is a still small speaker but with two low/midrange drivers simply to be able to play at ’concert level’ without distortion; but still no need for very low bass. "Since still in the ... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @clio09 wrote: "I recall hearing that system in Long Beach and liked the concept. I might like to try something like that. If you don’t mind sharing, what were the dimensions of the cabinet that was used in the set-up?" The Long Beach version of... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @kevn wrote: "duke, may I ask about your sense of things, all things room and equipment equal, if you feel that a distributed bass array will still give better bass accuracy, depth and cohesion with mids and highs than what erik is working on? Or ... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @scotandholly, I’m pretty sure @erik_squires made his design choices with eyes wide open, and I respect them. If you want to persuade him to go with a distributed multi-sub system, I guess you can try. (To avoid possible confusion I don’t use t... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @erik_squires, I should have specified that I was thinking of the woofers being side-firing (and therefore back-to-back), and now I understand that the woofer motors are too deep for that. I really like your idea of using the subwoofers as speak... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! Very nice! Two woofers per enclosure would theoretically give you the option of using a force-cancelling configuration. Depending on the enclosure width and motor depth, you might even be able to keep the same overall shape, though you would pr... | |
| Speaker Diagnostics - Impedance Very informative, you were able to eliminate most of "the usual suspects" quite quickly. Thanks for posting this! Duke | |
| Do you prefer tall speakers @guscreek , it looks to me like the tweeter height of the Timeframe 2000 is ballpark 35 inches, whereas the tweeter height of the VR4 Gen2 looks like it is probably in the ballpark of 40 inches. So based on your descriptions, I'm guessing that p... | |
| Should I use Impedance 4 or 8? The tap that's loudest is the best impedance match. The tap that sounds best is the tap that sounds best. The two are usually, but not always, the same. | |
| My Sonus Faber Amatis have weak bass even though I'm running ML 536s--800 w/ch into 4 ohms I agree with @audiotroy's analysis. In the bass region, the speakers are "seeing" a huge airspace. Also, eyeballing Stereophile's measurements from June 1999, the Amati is not a bass monster. Its efficiency is on the high side, and (for a given... | |
| Subs? It’s interesting to see the benefits of a distributed multi-sub system growing in acceptance in the nineteen years or so since Todd Welti and Earl Geddes, completely independent from one another, first began advocating for such. Disclaimer: I was ... | |
| NEW Tekton Design Speakers - The Bonnevilles @bob540 wrote: "The knock I heard (on this forum) on Tekton speakers was that the drivers are alleged to be cheap and not quality." I cannot speak to very many of the drivers Tekton uses, but I recognized one of their woofers, the one in the Moab... | |
| NEW Tekton Design Speakers - The Bonnevilles There are things, very good things, that can be done with an immense baffle and four large, powerful woofers which cannot be replicated via smaller systems and equalization. Very good things. @willrich47, I look forward to your review. |