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Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
@erik_squires wrote: "That’s an interesting POV. I would have thought that the slot [the area between back of a speaker with a rear-firing tweeter and the well immediately behind it] would act like a severe low pass filter." Sorry I over looked r... 
Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
Quoting @tomic601 (replying to my post that rear-firing tweeters can correct the spectral balance of the reflection field) : "While destroying the timing information that the ear brain is much more sensitive to. " There are conditions under whic... 
Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
@tomic601 said, "A rear firing tweeter... is 100% distortion..." I disagree. Implemented correctly, one beneficial thing a rear-firing tweeter does is this: It corrects the spectral balance of the reflection field. Duke rear-firing tweeter adv... 
Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design
Ime loudspeaker design is a fascinating competition of ideas, every one of which is a juggling of tradeoffs (and anyone who tells you otherwise is in marketing). The implementation of those ideas can take very different forms: Single driver, two-w... 
Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
@erik_squires , imo the width of the Snell Type A helps the rear-firing tweeter to work well even when the speaker is up against the wall, assuming the wall is not absorptive. Imo rear-firing tweeters need some reflection path length, but not nea... 
Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
@mark200mph wrote: "The wings on the infinity had rear firing tweeters and they did that as well on the genesis 200 model.my new fr 30 has a rear firing tweeter." Ime a well-integrated rear-firing tweeter can contribute to "being able hear the r... 
Magico - Wide vs. Narrow
Imo, all else being equal, the edge diffraction of a wide cabinet is more likely to degrade image precision because its false azimuth cues arrive at a worse time.  But imo cabinet shape matters more than cabinet width.  It is not clear to me that... 
Starting my showroom again
@decooney , very interesting that your local guy carries both SoundLab and Zingali. I’m a SoundLab dealer and also the guy who mentioned Zingali... so, yeah! Nice combination! If I hadn’t started making my own speakers, I would have become a Zinga... 
Starting my showroom again
@lonemountain wrote: "Finding something unique to sell is the game." I agree. I started out twenty-five years ago as a dealer for SoundLab speakers and Atma-Sphere amps & preamps. In the five years I was a dealer in New Orleans I only made O... 
Starting my showroom again
@nashvillehifi, I think your plan of becoming a national distributor is a good one. If feasible, imo it would be a good idea to route all sales through your dealers. Dealers don’t like to compete with their distributors, but they really appreciate... 
Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget
@cookiecurls wrote: "The room size is 10 feet by 11 feet with 10 foot ceilings, almost a perfect square". This makes me think that a somewhat unconventional set-up geometry might be worth considering: Perhaps with the speakers and listening posit... 
Wilson Alexia 2 lacking some bass
@greenspyder718, does the minor low-end lack you describe show up throughout the room, or only in the listening position?  Is your 20 x 15 foot room open into any other rooms? Can you describe approximately where the speakers are relative to the... 
Dual Subwoofers?
@portoalegre wrote: [Are two subs better] "even if the two subs are at the corners close to the walls?" Yes but the improvement is not as much as if the two subs are in acoustically very different locations... like one in a corner and the other ... 
Speaker Suggestions for Next Move
@jbhiller wrote: "I’d like to get a bit more depth to the soundstage..." Ime there are two types of soundstage depth. The first type would be a deep-soundstage "they are here" presentation. A "they are here" presentation is an approximation of t... 
LTL Freight Shipping Company Recommendation for Speakers
SoundLab (big expensive fullrange electrostats) also uses Old Dominion.