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| 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... | |
| What speakers can b considered as world reference? Drew,Enjoyed reading your post. If I might comment on one thing - Earl Geddes' speaker was called the "Summa" (as in "summa cum laude"), so you were very close there. Earl is no longer building the Summa, but has sold the rights to a Thailand-base... | |
| In-line xover question A plug-in high-pass filter like you describe will roll off the bottom end of your main speakers at 6 dB per octave (it's a capacitor selected with the amplifier's input impedance and desired rolloff point in mind). Whether or not it will help get ... | |
| cat jl3 signatures vs. atmashere ma2III's Hello Optarchie,I just spoke with Tierry Budge's distributor, Todd Waldron, who told me that the impedance curve for the Fremont stays between 6.5 ohms and 10 ohms. That is extremely impressive and good news as far as OTL amp matching goes (I'm an... | |
| Amp for Quad ESL 57 Franks,I drove a pair of Quad 57's with an S-30 a few years ago. Since I'm a dealer for the latter I'll refrain from editorializing too much and just say that yes, it can be done.For stacked Quads driven in parallel, in my opinion the S-30's outpu... | |
| Report from Rocky Mountain AudioFest Hello Turbofc3s,I heard The Red Speakers in room 9014 and liked them quite a bit. They were very dynamic and open-sounding, and I didn't hear anything that sounded "wrong" and spoiled the illusion. I wanted to stay longer in your room, but had ver... | |
| RMAF: My favorites, so-so's, and disappointments Jig,Wow thanks - I'll show Lori your post! I recently became an Emerald Physics dealer, but have only heard the CS2 at RMAF as I'm still waiting for my demo pair. Probably not fair for me to comment, but I guess you can read in between the lines m... | |
| RMAF: My favorites, so-so's, and disappointments Jig,The Pulserod by SonicWeld was indeed superb in my opinion as well. I have heard it a couple of times before and it was very good but didn't really drop my jaw to the floor like it did this time. Designer Josh Heiner told me that he'd made nume... |