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| why are two subs harder to place than full range? Generally fullrange speakers offer fewer placement options than two subs would, but on the other hand the designer probably has a pretty good idea of where they will be placed in the room. With dual subs, the range of possible placement options ex... | |
| aerial model 7, both speakers completly smoked If you can brush away the soot and identify the drivers (manufacturer, model number), then IF they are off-the-shelf drivers perhaps you can purchase them from either Madisound or Parts Express at some savings.If they are not off-the-shelf drivers... | |
| Songs about the end of the cold war / Soviets "Russians" actually came out long before the fall of the Soviet Union, but at the time I thought its message was magnificent: "The only thing that will save me and you is if the Russians love their children too" Kinda repaints the whole "us vs the... | |
| Atma-sphere S-30 with Reference 3A? Marty, thanks for posting your observation. I would guess that the gentle, fairly broad increase in energy in the 2 kHz region psychoacoustically more than offsets the fairly narrowband increase in energy in the upper bass region. I hadn't thought... | |
| Atma-sphere S-30 with Reference 3A? Eyeballing the impedance curve and frequency response curve measured by SoundStage, I think this speaker would work quite well with the S-30. The impedance curve is admirably smooth, and the impedance rise around 2.5 kHz is just about centered on ... | |
| Help - Nice small dipole or bipole for HT wanted. In my opinion, a bipolar's side-null is beneficial in a multichannel setup. The reverberant energy is a separate event from the first-arrival energy (produced by the front channels), and different priorities come into play.You do not want the rear... | |
| Easy to drive large speakers for Rock & Roll? To Dr. Joe's list above, I'll add the Altec Model 14 (little brother of the superb Model 19), and the JBL model 4430 studio monitor. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Transmission line speakers - great with tubes I'm not familiar with the Circas, but Kevin Blair of Buggtussel went to great lengths in his designs to achieve an unusually smooth impedance curve. This makes more of a difference than most people realize, and is probably among the reasons the Bu... | |
| Want to accept the Harbeth 7's, but... If the Harbeths are close to the wall(s), you might try moving them out away from the walls and see if that helps. Early reflections and/or too much boundary reinforcement can muddle the sound.Duke | |
| Which is for me, floorstanding, or books w subs? I was quite impressed with the Boston Acoustics CR-8 a few years ago. Whatever its successor is today, it's probably also pretty darn good for the money (which should be within your ballpark).Duke | |
| Owners of speakers by obscure companies chime in Rgs92, I communicated with one of The Absolute Sound's reviewers, and the sticking point really was not advertising. The sticking point was my lack of a dealer network. TAS is at the top of the food chain (along with Stereophile), and as such thei... | |
| Speaker's efficiency, sensitivity and impedance Chris, thanks - hope that was somewhat helpful. Gregm, you are of course correct - the proper expression of efficiency would be a percentage, and then we could probably do apples-to-apples comparisons! I've only seen percentages given in prosound,... | |
| Speaker's efficiency, sensitivity and impedance Well, my answer is a little bit different - so I guess you get to take your pick!Unfortunately the relevant terms get used inconsistently or imprecisely, leading many people to think that efficiency and sensitivity are the same thing. Here is the ... | |
| SET with Maggies again Hopefully Maggie + SET owner Onemug will post. His 3.6's sound wonderful with his little amps, but he doen't ask them to play louder than what they're comfortable with.Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Very low speaker impedance Plato, funny you should mention the Strathearns. I used them in several different homebrew systems. The impedance of a single Strathern sans transformer was .55 (that's point five five) ohms! I used to drive one (or two in series) directly with an... |