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| Beolab 5 - Four Questionable Technologies I haven't heard the B&O Beolab 5 yet, but seriously doubt the lenses are mere marketing drivel. They address a problem that most loudspeakers have.Briefly, very few loudspeakers generate a reverberant field that has approximately the same spec... | |
| subs and small room Athipaul, I don't see how multiple subs in a small room "would only create nodes (peaks/dips) at mid-bass and higher frequencies". The subs are not contributing at mid-bass and higher frequencies, so they do not "create nodes". They do smooth the ... | |
| subs and small room Rives, thanks for the kind words - you could so easily have accused me of double-talk!Seriously, my apologies for the double-post. I thought I was editing (instead of double-posting), and then my connection failed and I couldn't get back online.Duke | |
| Any comment on Opera Audio Consonance M15 speakers Ben,I haven't heard the M15 but I like the format. You probably had to overcome a bit of normal audiophile skepticism to accept the notion of a 15" woofer operating well up into the midrange region - but as you heard, done right it can work very w... | |
| subs and small room Small rooms are the hardest to get smooth bass in. If you are really serious about getting good bass in a small room, there is a solution but I must warn you - at first glance is seems insane. First a bit of background. You may have noticed that m... | |
| subs and small room Small rooms are the hardest to get smooth bass in. If you are really serious about getting good bass in a small room, there is a solution but I must warn you - at first glance is seems insane. First a bit of background. You may have noticed that m... | |
| Hansen Emperor or MBL 101E or Avalon Isis Hello Emigene,For the sidewall, a distance of two meters (6.5 feet) would be nice but is not necessary if you treat the first sidewall reflection area. I prefer diffusion instead of absorption, but if your room is too bright then use absorption. F... | |
| Harshness in Midrange??? Any Help Chris,Different designers have different ideas about what matters and what doesn't. That's one of the things that makes speaker design so fascinating. It's not rocket science - there is no neat book of equations that tells you exactly what perform... | |
| 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... |