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| 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 | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @erik_squires wrote: "So in a small room, I can’t imagine actually wanting to enhance the reverberant amplitude or timing per se. To my ears, the congestion in clarity, especially dialogue suffers too much." Might that "congestion" be due to an ex... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @erik_squires, in a big room like an auditorium, with listeners being far away from the speakers, the direct-to-reverberant sound ratio is MUCH lower than in a home audio setting, where we are much closer to the speakers. In a big room the reverbe... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Erik wrote: "don’t most listening rooms have too long of an RT 60 to begin with, not to mention, it is usually pretty uneven.’ In general when we move into a larger listening room the RT60 will correspondingly tend to be longer, but the larger ro... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Erik posted: " I don’t mean to nit pick but you listed this as beneficial: 1. Increased time delay between the first-arrival sound and the onset of the lateral reflections, and a generally increased decay time. "Did you mean the last part? I thou... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? The three speakers Erik identifies as having sounded good in "mediocre" rooms are all speakers which have relatively smooth off-axis response as well as other characteristics which generally result in good in-room response: The Vandersteen Model 7... | |
| I am indecisive about choice due to room size "Sit 2’ from your speakers and listen to them. The difference between that and your chair is room acoustics." The difference is the speaker’s off-axis response plus the room’s acoustics. Duke | |
| Poor Fritz @jjss49 and @erik_squires make valid points. I've removed my trollfood posts, in hopes of cleaning up the thread a little bit. Duke | |
| I am indecisive about choice due to room size Many Japanese audiophiles do something highly counter-intuitive: They use large horn loudspeakers in small rooms. Speakers conceptually similar to the Altec Model 19. But maybe they are onto something: These large-format horn loudspeakers have fai... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Thank you, jdlynch. That’s a big space. Imo you can probably get good results with three subs, since the space is so large. Okay, here’s what comes to mind: Add two more subs, which probably need not be as big and as capable as the Submersive, and... |