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| 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... | |
| Adding a sub woofer? @hilde45 and @decooney , I thank you both very much. Duke | |
| Adding a sub woofer? "I’ve heard that the interaction between multiple subs can cause problems" Hilde45, I try to stay informed on the pro’s and con’s of using multiple subs. Would you be willing to share what these problems are, that you have heard of? I’m not trying... | |
| which speaker to buy In my opinion pushing 600 watts into home audio speakers is a recipe for disaster, with rare exceptions. If loudness is the priority and cost is the issue, bring your Led Zep and your son to Guitar Center and listen to their PA speakers. Duke | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @jdlynch wrote: " Duke, will I need to get some device to set delays and levels for each individual sub? This is where I would get lost. " First, apologies for being so slow to reply. I hadn't checked in on this thread in a while and didn't r... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @erik_squires, likewise I thank you for the thoughtful engagement! Much more satisfying than a squabble. I'll try to avoid those in the future. "I don't see a reasonable model of room treatment where early reflections are not controlled, echoe... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Hi Erik, I certainly don't expect you to simply accept my claims, and I thank you for hearing me out. Best wishes, Duke |