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| 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. | |
| JBL M2 Vs 4367 @n_brio wrote: "M2 has a power rating on 1200w at 8 ohm and 4367 300w with the same drivers are the x-over so much weaker in the passive speaker?" My guess is that the active crossover for the M2 includes protection circuitry which makes it safe ... | |
| Looking for a new Subwoofer @quickjack1234 wrote: "multiple subwoofer... benefits include: ► more even bass distribution across the seating area ► better seat to seat consistency for more effective EQ ► more output and LF coupling factor for deep extended bass response" ... | |
| New speakers for a new start? @devinplombier wrote: "I love planar speakers for their speed and transparency, but the fact that I can't sit still in their minuscule sweet spot for very long..." So if I understand correctly, you would like a wide sweet spot area. Let me sugg... | |
| Why are high efficiency speakers preferred for low volume listening? At the risk of over-simplifying (and I'm not saying this is the only factor): A significant contributor to high efficiency is a high motor-strength-to-moving-mass ratio, and it just so happens that a high motor-strength-to-moving-mass ratio is al... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @mikhailark , I have to apologize for getting your amps mixed up - somehow I was thinking low-powered Class A Pass Labs, when it’s actually low-powered (but not as low-powered) Class A Accuphase. Speakers with a voltage sensitivity at least in the... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @mikhailark , thank you for the additional information. That’s a nice big room, which imo implies that you will probably want fairly high voltage sensitivity for use with your 30-watt Pass Labs amp. You might consider speakers with a voltage sens... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @mikhailark, ime a "relaxed, non-fatiguing sound" is predicted by a gently downward-sloping first-arrival sound, and an off-axis sound that has a very similar spectral balance. I’m not a big fan of deliberately introducing dippage into the 2-6 kHz... |