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| Do active speakers interest you? Also, let's talk directivity Thanks for the information about Joachim Kriesler. I've admired the ME Geithain monitors from afar, as I don't know how they get cardioid behavior well down into the bass region WITHOUT using a second woofer. They claim THREE octaves of cardioid... | |
| Fleetwood Sound Company I have known Jonathan Weiss, owner of Fleetwood Sound and Oswalds Mill Audio, and Bill Woods, who designs their horns, for maybe eighteen or nineteen years. Bill has an extensive background in both prosound and high-end audio, and his prosound de... | |
| Warm romantic & detailed Jeffinnh76, thanks for the additional information about your room. How much freedom do you have with speaker positioning? My own sonic priorities are not very different from yours. Imo characteristics which contribute to "warm, romantic and detail... | |
| Do active speakers interest you? Also, let's talk directivity "... let’s talk directivity." Imo really paying attention to directivity is part of getting "the basics" right. I applaud your emphasis on this typically under-appreciated aspect of loudspeaker design. "To me, a soundsystem is an important health ... | |
| Warm romantic & detailed Jeffinnh, thanks for posting information about your preferences and your amplification. Can you tell us a little about your room, and what your placement constraints are? Imo SoundLab fullrange electrostats... "used" in your price range... meet yo... | |
| Relatively small speaker with a "big" performance: Role Audio Starship SE model @teajay , that’s a very interesting configuration Role Audio is using in the Starship model. Thank you for bringing it up and for your excellent review. That four-woofer, tweeter-in-the-middle cluster is something I haven’t seen before in high-end... | |
| Sue Kraft My condolences to you and all of Sue's family. Thank you for letting us know. | |
| Does speaker-level input to sub by pass its electronics? The "speaker level input" on a subwoofer goes into a "voltage divider network", which derives a line-level signal from the speaker-level signal. This line-level signal then goes into the subwoofer's electronics, including the gain control, low-pa... | |
| smaller speakers for critical listening? @erik_squires wrote: "Anytime we try to get deep into the bottom 2 octaves of response the room interactions can be so detrimental as to make critical listening impossible." I agree with you that room interactions are the biggest issue in the bott... | |
| Why so obsessed with bass? Emergingsoul asked: "Do subs generally do an inferior quality vs a high end main?" At the risk of overgeneralizing: The biggest hurdle to high quality bass is the speaker’s interaction with the room. This will cause a nasty peak-and-dip pattern no... | |
| Subwoofer orientation Hleeid, the amount of "sag" from orienting a woofer either face-up or face-down can be calculated based on the woofer’s moving mass (mass of the cone & voice coil assembly) and the suspension system’s compliance. The woofer in your subs will s... | |
| Ohm Walsh F Hope of Resurrection So you have a pair of Ohm F’s that have been "saved", and now want to know if they have a hope of being "resurrected"? Hmmm. If the original drivers are irrepairable, but modern replacements are available, are we looking at putting new wine into o... | |
| In praise of the ESL-57 Perkri, when I owned ’57’s by chance I found the bass to be better WITHOUT the feet, presumably because when sitting on the floor the underneath dipole cancellation path was eliminated. Of course they were then sitting kinda low. So my (untried) s... | |
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? The first time I went record shopping was shortly after I got my driver’s license in 1976. We lived over two hours from New Orleans, where there was a record store called The Music Box which from time to time had $3.99 album sales. I had been savi... | |
| Soundlab Dynastats Thermals, imo the Dynastat is an excellent loudspeaker which gets overlooked because its fullrange-panel big brothers are what everyone focuses on. Regarding setup: Like other dipole speakers, the Dynastats benefit from having a fair amount o... |