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| Good speakers at low volume? Thanks, Johnk. That PHY driver has a very warm and rich tonal balance, sounds lovely at low and medium levels, will play loud better than most fullrange drivers, and in a good cabinet it would be an excellent choice in your situation. In my experi... | |
| Good speakers at low volume? In general, high-efficiency speakers and electrostatics do a better job with low-level resolution and liveliness. Of course, there are exceptions to this generalization.With high-efficiency speakers, note that you want one that doen't have a thin,... | |
| Subwoofer with Unison Unico Yes.You can choose a sub that has speaker-level inputs, or solder up your own voltage divider network with speaker leads for the input and RCA jacks for the output, or get one of these:http://www.audio-magus.com/SubLine_Subwoofer_Connector_p/slv2.... | |
| is too large a room no good? Most speakers are designed with the emphasis on good on-axis response, with the expectation that they will be listened to from close enough that the first-arrival sound will dominate over the reverberant energy as far as tonal balance goes.But in ... | |
| Replacing Electrostatic Panels - Costly/Difficult? You might contact this company with your questions (no affiliation):http://www.estatsolution.com/In a high humidity environment, I would strongly recommend unplugging them when not in use. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Thanks for the information, Macro. With Bill Woods on your team, you're in great shape.Best of luck with your project!Duke | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Macro, what frequency range do you want the driver to cover? Do you have a horn already picked out, or is choosing a horn part of the project? Active or passive crossover, and who will be doing the crossover design (or setup, if active)? What will... | |
| Hey Audiogon how about a DIY/Horn section? Great idea, Gawdbless! And perhaps to go along with it, maybe a category for buying and selling raw parts - tubes, drivers, horns, transformers, plate amps, enclosures, stuff like that. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Okay, this is just a guess...It looks to me like there's a double diffractive edge below the tweeter, formed by the horizontal slot on the front baffle. The ear might be picking up this diffraction as a secondary sound source with a seriously skew... | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Macro, I liked 'em with Bill's horns the best. It was in a huge room at RMAF last year, and it sounded like there was a band up there playing. A pretty good one, too.I don't know what Cogent charges for their drivers. You might try contacting Stev... | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Utterly effortless sound - the Cogents impressed me a great deal. The Cogent room has been one of my favorite rooms at several audio shows over the past few years. I would say that some of the horns they've used have been better than others, but t... | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? Thank you very much, naked... but between you and me, I just talk a good game. Cheers,Duke | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? Iplaynaked asked: "Er, what specifically do you feel are "hard and fast rules" that are counter-intuitive, as you say? I believe everyone here would like to know, actually. I would."Well, that's not really what I said. I said that much of audio is... | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? Iplaynaked, I realize that using large-diameter woofers in a small room is counter-intuitive. But then much of audio is counter-intuitive. For example, my suggestion to rotate the speakers-plus-listener triangle by about 20 degrees (resulting in a... | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? Bdgregory, glad to hear it worked for you!Pryso, I've found diagonal setups like you describe to often work well with planars, like Maggies and Quads. Now a dipole does have a bit smoother in-room bass than a monopole, according to an AES paper by... |