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| Harshness in Midrange??? Any Help In looking at the Stereophile measurements of the 802D, I see a couple of characteristics that could possibly contribute to "harshness" on female vocals.http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1205bw/index4.htmlAs you can see, there is a loca... | |
| We have a Winner -- Major "MINI" monitors Congrats on your new speakers, Bbchem! If I weren't doing something similar in format myself, I'd definitely be a dealer for Bob Smith. He's a very humble yet extremely enthusiastic man, and does his homework with extreme diligence and precision a... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker Shadorne,Duke is not infallible. You are more than welcome to disagree with me. However, I don't think I made either of the two statements you quote there (of course if I did... that just proves that I'm right about not being infallible!).My fall-... | |
| Hansen Emperor or MBL 101E or Avalon Isis Bonjour Emigene,I haven't heard the Hansens, but really like Avalon as well as MBL. I would probably be an Avalon dealer if I wasn't pursuing my own speaker venture.I have worked with speakers having polydirectional radiation characteristics, conc... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker Newbee, thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm really not all that. Heck, I'm not even a real duke... but then you're not a real newbee, are you??My preference is in the opposite direction of what Dennis is looking for - in general I prefer the... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? One other comment relative to in-room bass smoothness: Note that fullrange dipoles have smoother in-room bass than monopoles (James M. Kates, "Dipole Loudspeaker Response in Listening Rooms", JAES May 2002). A single dipole may be thought of as tw... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? The ear literally responds slowly at very low frequencies. We cannot hear less than 1 cycle at very low frequencies, and by the time 1 cycle has reached us enough time has elaped that we're past the direct sound and into the reverberant sound. Unf... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? At least one researcher in the field of subwoofer/room interaction recommends using two subwoofers operated 90 degrees out-of-phase with each other. I have used subs operated 180 degrees out of phase with each other at times. It offends one's noti... | |
| Need advise regarding small bookshelf monitor Ontjesr, I second the Amphion recommendation.Another possibility is a variation on the Loki kit from Madisound. The Loki uses a 6.5" coaxial driver from Seas. I was going to manufacture a speaker based on this driver, and even showed a pair at an ... | |
| Tyler/Salk sensible alternatives to Gallos? Achieving decent soundstaging across a wide listening area requires taking psychoacoustics into account. The ear localizes sound by two mechanisms - arrival time and intensity. Arrival time will inevitably be skewed in favor of the closer speaker ... | |
| Rear Ported versus Non Rear Ported floor standing Whether or not a speaker works well near the wall depends on the details of the design. While as a general rule of thumb we could say that the average rear-ported speaker would not work well in such situations, there are exceptions that work excep... | |
| In-line xover question Thank you, Syndeysophia, and very best of luck to you. I have no experience with the NHT unit, but that might well be a more ideal solution.Duke | |
| Small, tube-friendly speaker suggestions needed Just curious - what do you not like about Reference 3a speakers? I'm not very familiar with them, but see them recommended quite often to people in your situation.How large can the stand-mount speaker be and still work for you?Is there any particu... | |
| Cost no Object but Small Room Omnis, dipoles, bipoles, and polydirectional speakers work best when they can be set up such that the onset of side-wall and rear-wall reflections reaches the listener's ears at least 10 milliseconds after the first-arrival sound. The 10 milliseco... | |
| In-line xover question Hello Sydneysophia,Thanks for replying.Okay, when doing a crossover I try to get a symmetrical slope on both sides of the crossover frequency. In my opinion, this applies to subwoofers as well. The Velodyne HGS-10 has a second-order (12 dB per oct... |