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| A great DIY line array speaker???? Once upon a time I designed and built several different line-array speakers. I really like the kind of sound field a tall line source sets up in the listening room.Here are the lessons I learned:1. It's pretty much impossible to get a seamless ble... | |
| Listening Through Walls at Show: Vodoo or Valid? Well, I guess I was kinda askin' for it!Of course the ideal way to evaluate a system is in your own room, but that's not always possible. I'm not suggesting listening in another room to "equalize the response", but rather to quickly isolate and ev... | |
| Duevel Actually, the design of these speakers intrigues me a great deal. They are a horn-loaded omnidirectional design, and so will overcome one of the problems that seems to plague many omnis - namely, low efficiency and poor dynamics. The lawsuit-happy... | |
| Listening Through Walls at Show: Vodoo or Valid? L.I.A.R. stands for "Listening in another room", and is a very valuable tool in serious loudspeaker evaluation.One of the things I do when auditioning speakers (or demoing them for customers) is crank the volume up a bit louder than normal and go ... | |
| Audio Artistry owners in the San Fran Bay Area Well, Audio Artistry designer Siegfried Linkwitz himself lives in the Bay area. You can contact him through his website, www.linkwitzlab.com. | |
| Legacy Whisper-- Opininions The Legacy Whispers are a rare breed - a dynamic dipole. To the best of my knowledge, the only other dynamic dipoles out there are the Audio Artistry line and the Gradient Revolutions. I've never heard the Whispers, but I'm fond of the Audio Artis... | |
| Best Electrostatic loudspeaker? Thank you very much for your kind words, Tireguy and Detlof! | |
| entry planar setup I've heard MMG's sound quite good in an almost cubic bedroom, located about a foot and a half out into the room, with drapes behind them. So, you might not want to pull the plug on the MMG idea just yet. The MMG's are a breeze to reposition if you... | |
| Best Electrostatic loudspeaker? Tekunda -As you have observed, there is a wide range of opinions on the Martin-Logans, with some people loving them and some coming down on them pretty hard. This may sound strange, but I don't think the speakers are at fault - and I'd like to off... | |
| How good does it get? Greetings Say811,You are setting out to make a highly subjective choice without the benefit of listening, since you don't have the option of driving for an audition. May the audio gods smile on you!Speaker choice is a very personal thing because, ... | |
| Speakers for 50W Triode tube amp Prairiedog -I second Dnight's recommendation of the Buggtussels with your triode amps. Disclaimer - I recently became a Buggtussel dealer, but I was recommending them here and at the Asylum long before I became a dealer. The Buggs work extremely w... | |
| What's the best mid-range driver available? One drawback of the R-3 (in my opinion anyway) is the limited vertical listening window. When you stand up, you lose the highs. Now I probably place a higher premium on good sound while standing up (and dancing) than most people do. But if I were ... | |
| Balance control vs. Speaker placement In my room, I measure the distance from each speaker to the exact center of the listening position to within about 1/8", and then fine-tune the exact distance by ear. That helps, as there's an optical illusion in my room that makes the right speak... | |
| Recommended amp for Quad 57. I agree heartily with Ivanj's recommendations, and I've also heard good things about the Bedini from a customer who drove his 57's with one. On a bit tighter tube amp budget, Quicksilver makes a nice little 40-watt stereo amp you might take a look... | |
| Question: Does ATC have the best midrange driver? Tweekerman, you are right in that there is a shortage of excellent quality dedicated midranges. Most high-end speakers these days use a woofer, a midwoofer, and a dome tweeter. One problem that these systems tend to have is a narrowing of the radi... |