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| Most enveloping sounding CDP Spaz, mebbe it's none of my beeswax, but...An important ingredient in recreating a sense of envelopment is a strong, diffuse, slowly-decaying reverberant field. In eyeballing your system, I see lots of absorptive panels lining the walls of your ro... | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? One problem of small rooms - especially small, square rooms - is the resulting large peaks and dips in the bass region due to speaker/room interaction.If you can place the speakers with some assymmetry in the horizontal plane, relative to the room... | |
| Almost there but not quite.... Well, you might scoot the speakers a little bit farther apart so that you're not quite so nearfield, and just for kicks try toeing them in severely so that they criss-cross in front of the listening position. If you want a warmer tonal balance, yo... | |
| Single driver speakers - opinions If you really want to go first class, seriously, get in touch with Johnk. He uses fantastic parts quality and he has experience with a wider range of fullrange drivers than anyone I know, and is highly competent in enclosures that get the most out... | |
| Used speakers for $3k? Oh the confusion Hello Stereo,I was a Cliffhanger dealer, and yup the Bulldog was killer! A classy little three-way in an league where virtually everything else was a two-way, and Ian did a superb job with the crossover. Nice to come across someone who appreciates... | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 Nice amp you got there. There's one in my living room, too.I haven't experienced what you describe during break-in, so can't make any suggestions on that topic.However, I do have some experience in designing speakers to work well with the S-30 (as... | |
| Help me in the right direction, new speakers I suggest that high quality pro-sound drivers are more likely to convey the "emotion" in the music well. You see, musicians use dynamic contrast to convey emotion. When the music calls for a 20 dB peak, if the speakers only give you 17 dB increase... | |
| First name basis? Gee, I never really thought about it. I guess your idea makes makes sense, unless the guy drops some subtle hint about how he'd like to be addressed.His Royal HighnessSupreme Emperor and Dictator-For-Lifethe One, the OnlyDuke | |
| Quad 57 or 63 with Gradients Detlof, very cool! It sounds like you probably came up with it before I did. I first tried the Quad tweeter tweek around 2000 or so, I think; it was after I got my first SoundLabs. I think Martin Logan later used a rear-firing tweeter on some of t... | |
| High efficiency speakers That 18-watt Lamm amp really gives you more options than most single-ended triode amps do. I think you can reasonably look at speakers below 95 dB efficiency, assuming a benign impedance curve. I've shown benign 92-dB speakers with SET amps of 5, ... | |
| Quad 57 or 63 with Gradients Hmmm. I posted a response, and I think I even went back and saw it up here, but is no here now.So, lemme try again.The '57 beams pretty seriously in the treble region, and the tweeter panel has an absorbent pad behind it so the radiation is monopo... | |
| Speakers play down till ?hz before imaging suffers At one time I read several Audio Engineering Society papers on the subject of detection of low frequency sources, and came away with the understanding that a crossover frequency of 80 Hz was acceptable as long as the low-pass filter's slope was st... | |
| Quad 57 or 63 with Gradients I've owned several pairs of 57's, and a pair of 63's with the dedicated Gradient subs. In my opinion, a good pair of 57s sounds a bit better in the vocal region than a good pair of 63s. The 63s will definitely play louder. So there is no clear-cut... | |
| Which speakers have wide dispersion? Drew, note that the SoundLabs espoused by Twb2 do not suffer from the narrowed radiation pattern one would normally expect from a large panel. This is because the diaphragm of the SoundLabs is a faceted curve, which radiates over a 90 degree arc (... | |
| Which speakers have wide dispersion? Thanks for the mention, Shadorne!At this point only one of my speakers would qualify as "wide dispersion", and that's my big Dream Makers, which are bipolar (kinda like their designer). But instead of the pattern being very wide primarily in the f... |