audiokinesis
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| Dispersion, narrow, controlled, or bi? @phusis wrote: "The large format Constant Directivity EV HP9040 diffraction horn (as the model number implies) has a 90 and 40 degree horizontal and vertical coverage (down to about 500Hz, it seems), and the dispersion pattern of the JBL 2405 Aln... | |
| Dispersion, narrow, controlled, or bi? @phusis wrote: "I prefer a large radiation area and front firing, tall horn or horn hybrid design with a controlled, narrow and fairly uniform dispersion pattern." Me too! But I haven’t done anything as large as your speakers (yet), so you are ... | |
| Dispersion, narrow, controlled, or bi? @erik_squires wrote: "... I’ve often wondered what the results would be of using a separate preamp/amp/speaker pair to reflect sound would be like. You could completely alter the volume and even use DSP to tailor the reflections. " If you dec... | |
| Dispersion, narrow, controlled, or bi? At the risk of over-simplifying, imo a speaker should get two things right: The direct sound, and the reflections. The direct sound is the most important, but imo the reflection field matters enough that it’s worth getting right (unless the sys... | |
| Can AI Build a speaker? A few months ago I attempted to speed up my search for woofers with a particular set of characteristics, among which was having one or more demodulation rings (also known as "shorting rings" or "Faraday rings"). The answers I received were WRON... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass Thank you, @mahgister! Very glad to hear Seth Kaufman's music speaks to you too! | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @mahgister , I particularly like "Repercussion". At one point about halfway through Seth stands up and leans forward and plucks the strings with his fingers. I didn’t realize that’s what was going on until I saw him perform it live. It had never... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @mahgister wrote: "Could you please name one or two even three albums of piano very well recorded...i want to buy them... "It is very important because as you i think piano sound is a judge in my system/room..." You might consider "Red Descendin... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @richardbrand wrote: "To discover what the first overtone sounds like, move up one octave and play that key. If the two notes sound as if they are the same frequency, then you cannot hear the lowest fundamental. But my experience on a Kawai upri... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @richardbrand wrote: "I don’t agree that the low notes on a modern grand piano (piano-forte or soft-loud) contain so little energy that they do not merit being reproduced. Bosendorfer and Stuart keep extending the keyboard downwards!" Just to be... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @richardbrand , my investigation into the loudness of the fundamentals and first few overtones of the lowest piano notes was based on the spectra of those notes played on a grand piano, as I figured that would be applicable to amplified electric p... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass I was once tasked with designing a speaker system for amplifying electric piano. So I had to figure out how low in frequency the speaker system needed to go. Well it turns out that the fundamental of the 27.5 Hz low-A is down in level so much tha... | |
| Make speakers disappear. Simple, cheap Eyelids? Pretty simple, pretty cheap. I keep mine on me just in case. | |
| B&W 705 S3 with bad acoustics Ime acoustic problems call for acoustic solutions, and EQ is not an acoustic solution. Theoretically aggressive room treatment would help in this case. When room treatment isn’t feasible, one alternative would be speakers whose radiation pattern... | |
| 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... |