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| Speaker upgrade Romney80, thank you for the additional information about your room treatments. One of the reasons I was asking is that one of the speakers on your list, the Von Schweikert VR55, uses a rear-firing driver. (So do the Boenickes, and obviously di... | |
| Speaker upgrade Romney80, I have a question about something you wrote: " I have already done all room acoustics. " I hope you don’t mind me asking for some clarification... Are you primarily using absorption to treat your room, or are you using diffusion either p... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @sounds_real_audio, I would welcome actual clarification of your 9-22-2020 post. It’s not too late. Duke | |
| How I'd spend money given no limits If money wasn't an issue... Here's what I originally typed: "I'd manufacture a killer speaker at an affordable price, provide free in-home auditions, and happily lose money on every sale." That may look nice at first glance. But... It woul... | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. Veerossi, you might get in touch with Jim Romeyn, maker of your DEBRA subwoofer system. He may have some loudspeaker ideas. He and I have collaborated on several designs which bear my company’s name. You mentioned soundstage, and that’s one of the... | |
| Questioning Tannoy, Tekton or other possible change. @ozzy62 wrote: "I can have an opinion about... how good the measurements are... "But I cannot have an opinion about how it sounds by using any of the above parameters. If I tell you I do, it’s pure speculation..." There’s a guy named Floyd Too... | |
| HELP advise PLEASE - Focal Sopra 2 Speakers - I want a tube amp but " Min 2.6ohm @ 104Hz " Erik is correct. I design speakers to be tube-amp-friendly so I am familiar with the issue he brings up. You might look into Paul Speltz's "Zero" Autoformer, which is made for exactly this situation. The Zero Autoformer can effectively and eleg... | |
| Women who enjoy quality speakers Thanks for taking the time to post, Jasmine! When my wife and I were dating, her only source of music at home was her son's boombox. She wanted to play a song for me, and it had these selectable tone settings like "rock", "country", "classical",... | |
| Stahl-tek Vekian - help please! The company has apparently been "voluntarily dissolved", which means that the owners shut it down and sold the assets, which were used to pay off any debts.In other words, apparently Stahl-Tek is no more. Duke | |
| Speaker Audition Not all horns have a "horn signature". It depends on the specifics of the design. Duke | |
| Speakers good for close to wall placement " I’d like to go with tubes for my amp, so higher efficiency would be best. What are your thoughts on Klipsch Cornwalls?" I would expect the Cornwalls to work very well close to the wall. Their radiation pattern is very well controlled so that int... | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? I’m not sure which speaker is the "best" when it comes to timbre, but imo it will probably be one which does an excellent job of getting the reverberant field right. Perceived timbre involves both direct and reflected sound, and in general a spect... | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one @dbphd asked: "unsound/duke, how does [summing stereo bass] subtract some bass signals?" In theory to the extent that the left and right channel bass signals are out of phase with one another, the resulting net electrical signal would be less than... | |
| Is it better to have two matched subs or one In general, the in-room bass smoothness improves as the number of intelligently-distributed bass sources increases. So yes, two subs should be a worthwhile improvement over one, assuming you place them fairly far apart and at different distances ... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Music often plays a role in the emotional lives of men. For whatever reason, we men do not give ourselves permission to feel, let alone show, many of our deepest (and often most poignant) emotions. We bury them, and we’re damn good at it. For what... |