audiokinesis
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| Very low speaker impedance My guess is that, in the case of the big Konishita speakers, the designers perceive a worthwhile advantage in wiring many voice coils in parallel instead of using some other configuration. For one thing, the amplifiers will deliver a lot of wattag... | |
| Owners of speakers by obscure companies chime in Rsgs92, if you're willing to cover shipping costs, I can think of at least one that would!Eyes rolling innocently,Dukesmall manufacturer | |
| not impresed with my system How far out from the wall are your Def Tech speakers?In my opinion, a bipole or dipole speaker should have about five feet between the back of the speaker and the wall behind it (sidewall distances are usually less critical).If you don't have that... | |
| Subwoofer damping I suspect Wavetrader's designer knew what the heck he was doing. Seven cubic feet per woofer sounds quite reasonable to me; back when the estimate was twenty cubic feet per woofer I had my doubts.Duke | |
| speakers for classical music Shadorne, that JBL paper where they compared the thermal compression of different woofers and the Alnico magnet TAD compressed by about 7 dB within a few seconds is grossly misleading. I hate to say this about the JBL guys, but they deliberately c... | |
| Subwoofer damping Ooops - I was logged in on an sick friend's account (at his request - he has trouble typing now and wanted me to post an ad for him) and forgot to log off before posting. The post just above should have been under username "Audiokinesis".Duke | |
| Subwoofer damping You're welcome, Wavetrader. I used to make my own adjustable quasi-variovents, one of which made it into a SpeakerBuilder magazine article about a CRT-and-floppy friendly speaker back in the late 80's. Duke | |
| Subwoofer damping Shadorne, my understanding is that a variovent is used when a sealed box of the size you need to use would result in too high a Qtc with a particular woofer (say, one with a high Qts). Some of the backwave's pressure, but not all of it, passes thr... | |
| Subwoofer damping I remember Madisound carrying a very expensive Scan-Speaker woofer with a short coil/long gap geometry. I recall a peak-to-peak x-max of about 10 mm, or 5 mm one-way. I think this was a 12" woofer, but maybe yours is a larger version using the sam... | |
| Subwoofer damping Forty cubic feet? Wow.Without knowing the parameters of your woofers, I'll just toss out the possibility that your box is too big. Can you tell us what the woofers are, and perhaps even what the port tuning is (or what the port dimensions are)?If ... | |
| I need some speaker help I suggest high efficiency speakers with prosound drivers.You might contact Johnk, as he can probably build you exactly what you need. Other alternatives include the JBL model 4430 or 4435 studio monitors, or Altec Model 19, or Klipsch Heritage ser... | |
| Preamps with two pairs of balanced outs? Atma-Sphere preamps can be fitted with a second pair of balanced outputs as a factory-installed option. I've had it done a couple of times.Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Unsound, many horns do sound quite nasty. I have yet to hear a prosound hornspeaker that doesn't, especially at high volume levels.Two potential sources of nastiness are frequency response problems and diffraction. Horns all need some sort of equa... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Dgad,Thanks for asking for clarification - it sounds like I was giving an incorrect impression. Horns don't ordinarily give a more diffuse reverberant field than direct-radiator dynamic speakers. If anything, their typically narrower pattern resul... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Thanks for the mention Manga, and the clarification, Kana813. The ones that got the award are indeed bipolar, kinda like their designer....The subject of fullrange horns came up. Well, the Edgarhorn (with Seismic sub) and Classic Audio Reproductio... |