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| AR-2ax Level Controls. Originals: 16 Ohm Rheostats. Replace with????? "The new [16-ohm] L-Pads were TOOOOO big. The new L-Pads were TOOOOO big. A pair cannot get close enough together for the shafts to fit thru the existing holes in the crossover board (1-3/4" c/c). Returned for full refund to Parts Express." One o... | |
| Subwoofer Choice Question SVS, Majico, JL Audio, REL Assuming competent subwoofer design, by far the most audible issue in the bass region is uneven frequency response caused by room interaction. The audible effects of room-interaction peaks and dips on a sub are much greater than the audible differ... | |
| K-horn won't fit, any other corner speakers recommended for a big room? You might look at Pi Speakers. A couple of their models are designed to go into corners. I first heard the 7 Pi at the Midwest Audio Fest many years ago. I knew nothing about them and had no idea what was in the room, and from where I had to s... | |
| Recommendations on small ESL speakers for tiny room If you have free reign in your room, have you tried setting up your system on a diagonal? So your back would be to one corner, you’d be facing the opposite corner, and the speakers would be along each of the two walls flanking the corner that you’... | |
| Is Room treatment different for Horn Speakers? Yes. Because horn speakers have a higher direct-to-reverberant sound ratio due to their relatively narrow radiation pattern, you do not want to absorb any more of the reflected sound than you absolutely have to. As a general rule of thumb, I woul... | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? Published loudspeaker frequency response is virtually always measured with a solid state amp which puts out increased wattage into an impedance dip, and decreased wattage into an impedance peak. Most speakers are "voiced" for this type of amplifie... | |
| My swarm sub system is in The Absolute Sound !! Thank ya’ll very much!Speakermaster wrote: "Yeah it has been there for years, robert e. greene was the first to review and suggest looking into it and hearing it." Good call! The original version of the Swarm actually dates back to 2006, though ... | |
| My swarm sub system is in The Absolute Sound !! "... and not a dollar spent on room treatments... :- " A distributed multi-sub system is more effective at smoothing the in-room bass than extensive and expensive bass trapping, according to acoustician Matthew Poes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... | |
| Mixed Use Space - Advice for speakers placed close to back wall I agree with mijostyn that the radiation pattern control of a good (low-coloration) horn would facilitate getting good spatial qualities with the speakers up against the wall. Early reflections are arguably the ones most detrimental to spatial qua... | |
| New set up in asymmetrical room - speaker placement etc While we don't normally think of it this way, my understanding is that the audibility (and objectionability, if that's a word) of reflections is somewhat level-dependent. One thought-experiment example would be a grand piano in the kitchen - it w... | |
| Help with Shortlist of Speakers! (SF vs Devore vs Others?) Thank you very much for the additional information, jpearson3131. I suggest the Larsen 8 or Larsen 9 as candidates for your situation. Here is a review of the Larsen 9; the reviewer is a concert violinist (whose day job is high up in the math depa... | |
| Help with Shortlist of Speakers! (SF vs Devore vs Others?) Thanks for providing so much information via your linked drawing and photos. What comes to mind is, speakers optimized to go up against the wall, of which there are not very many but they do exist. Larsen comes to mind. There seems to be a column ... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? Getting good measurements of large dipole loudspeakers is not trivial. By way of example, John Atkinson uses a fairly sophisticated quasi-anechoic measurement technique and you can see his frequency response measurement of the Magnepan LSR on this... | |
| Maggies with a subwoofer system - optimization? Hi Tom, if I understand your situation correctly, there is no way to highpass filter the signal before your Krell amplifies it and sends it to the Maggies. Theoretically you could roll off the bass going to the Maggies by placing a highpass filt... | |
| Large Focal Speakers Shipping Service I am under the impression that a piano moving company might be an option, but I have never used one. |