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| Which amp to Bi-amp my Maggie 20.1 With a 130 Hz crossover point, I'd put the big amps on the upper frequency section. Not only will the upper frequency panels require more power on most music, but also clipping up there will be more audible than clipping on the bass panels.Duke | |
| Most subs seem too powerful One reason a sub can sound "too powerful" is that its in-room response has one or two large peaks, which stand out. But if you turn the sub down enough that the peaks aren't a problem, the rest of the bass is too soft. The solution is either equal... | |
| two way or three way speakers The number of "ways" in a speaker doesn't really have anything in common with the issue of whether or not to use a center channel. Both can be complex subjects, with there being exceptions to any general rules of thumb we might come up with. The s... | |
| Wilson MAXX musicallity and sound Fpooyandeh, can you tell us a little bit about the room and speaker positioning? I know you have a "room correction" equalizer, but it cannot correct the loudspeaker's radiation pattern, and that might be part of the problem. Bass varies enormousl... | |
| Golden Ear award for $55 speaker tweak Jax2, yes I also received a Golden Ear from Robert Greene in the same issue. Interestingly, of the four products he honors thusly, I am or was a dealer for three of them! Diffractionbegone is the only one I've not been affiliated with. And all fou... | |
| Emerald Physics CS-2, Opinions Please Paul - Yes, there's a lot of conceptual kinship between what Clayton is doing and what I'm doing. We're both shooting for room-friendly speakers with controlled radiation patterns using prosound drivers, for much the same reasons. As far as passiv... | |
| Emerald Physics CS-2, Opinions Please I was a dealer for Clayton, and remain a friend of his. Just for the record, he received a Golden Ear Award for the CS-2 in the June/July issue of The Abso!ute Sound.What Clayton did that is imho extraordinary is he pushed into bold new territory ... | |
| Speaker db rating? Zippyy is correct on both counts. SPL falls off by 6 dB for every doubling of distance from a point source under anechoic conditions, but then in a non-anechoic room you get back energy from the reverberant field - and how much of a difference tha... | |
| Owners of speakers by obscure companies chime in Regarding how us obscurians promote our products, I do audio shows and take my speakers to people's home for an audition if they don't live too far away. I have had some success with Audiogon ads, but zero results from a year's worth of Stereophil... | |
| Speaker db rating? A "rule of thumb" that I've seen in high-efficiency speaker circles is for the speaker/amp combination to be able to reach, on paper at least, 102 dB at one meter.Each doubling of power is theoretically 3 dB more output, so 8 watts is three doubli... | |
| Has the internet been good for audio? The internet has been very good to me. For one thing, it has allowed me to continue being an active dealer even though I live in a small town.I'd say about 3/4 of the sales I make depend on the buyer first being able to sell something to finance t... | |
| 40 watt amp with 8 ohm speakers I'm not familiar with those Ohm speakers, but 40 watts is probably sufficient for most applications. If I recall correctly, only their old Walsh type drivers were really low efficiency. As for a good budget CD player, I suggest you look at Oppo dv... | |
| Large room fix Csmithbarc, my speakers should have the same tonal balance pretty much regardless of amplification except in the deep bass (below 60 Hz or so). With a low-damping-factor tube amp my speakers will give increased bass output as compared with a solid... | |
| Bass, Frequency response, Etc...Noob Question I'd probably have a hard time looking at sets of specs and reliably picking out which speakers are best suited for rock.In my opinion, for rock music you want bass down to 40 Hz or so (you probably don't need it deeper except for synth rock), and ... | |
| Large room fix Csmithbarc, given your placement constraints I would not recommend dipoles, bipoles, or omnis.Speakers with good power response that I think would work well in your room include models from SP Technology (Timepiece or larger); big Harbeths; Gradie... |