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| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @scotandholly, I’m pretty sure @erik_squires made his design choices with eyes wide open, and I respect them. If you want to persuade him to go with a distributed multi-sub system, I guess you can try. (To avoid possible confusion I don’t use t... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @erik_squires, I should have specified that I was thinking of the woofers being side-firing (and therefore back-to-back), and now I understand that the woofer motors are too deep for that. I really like your idea of using the subwoofers as speak... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! Very nice! Two woofers per enclosure would theoretically give you the option of using a force-cancelling configuration. Depending on the enclosure width and motor depth, you might even be able to keep the same overall shape, though you would pr... | |
| Speaker Diagnostics - Impedance Very informative, you were able to eliminate most of "the usual suspects" quite quickly. Thanks for posting this! Duke | |
| Do you prefer tall speakers @guscreek , it looks to me like the tweeter height of the Timeframe 2000 is ballpark 35 inches, whereas the tweeter height of the VR4 Gen2 looks like it is probably in the ballpark of 40 inches. So based on your descriptions, I'm guessing that p... | |
| Should I use Impedance 4 or 8? The tap that's loudest is the best impedance match. The tap that sounds best is the tap that sounds best. The two are usually, but not always, the same. | |
| My Sonus Faber Amatis have weak bass even though I'm running ML 536s--800 w/ch into 4 ohms I agree with @audiotroy's analysis. In the bass region, the speakers are "seeing" a huge airspace. Also, eyeballing Stereophile's measurements from June 1999, the Amati is not a bass monster. Its efficiency is on the high side, and (for a given... | |
| Subs? It’s interesting to see the benefits of a distributed multi-sub system growing in acceptance in the nineteen years or so since Todd Welti and Earl Geddes, completely independent from one another, first began advocating for such. Disclaimer: I was ... | |
| NEW Tekton Design Speakers - The Bonnevilles @bob540 wrote: "The knock I heard (on this forum) on Tekton speakers was that the drivers are alleged to be cheap and not quality." I cannot speak to very many of the drivers Tekton uses, but I recognized one of their woofers, the one in the Moab... | |
| NEW Tekton Design Speakers - The Bonnevilles There are things, very good things, that can be done with an immense baffle and four large, powerful woofers which cannot be replicated via smaller systems and equalization. Very good things. @willrich47, I look forward to your review. | |
| Magico - Wide vs. Narrow @erik_squires wrote: "That’s an interesting POV. I would have thought that the slot [the area between back of a speaker with a rear-firing tweeter and the well immediately behind it] would act like a severe low pass filter." Sorry I over looked r... | |
| Magico - Wide vs. Narrow Quoting @tomic601 (replying to my post that rear-firing tweeters can correct the spectral balance of the reflection field) : "While destroying the timing information that the ear brain is much more sensitive to. " There are conditions under whic... | |
| Magico - Wide vs. Narrow @tomic601 said, "A rear firing tweeter... is 100% distortion..." I disagree. Implemented correctly, one beneficial thing a rear-firing tweeter does is this: It corrects the spectral balance of the reflection field. Duke rear-firing tweeter adv... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Ime loudspeaker design is a fascinating competition of ideas, every one of which is a juggling of tradeoffs (and anyone who tells you otherwise is in marketing). The implementation of those ideas can take very different forms: Single driver, two-w... | |
| Magico - Wide vs. Narrow @erik_squires , imo the width of the Snell Type A helps the rear-firing tweeter to work well even when the speaker is up against the wall, assuming the wall is not absorptive. Imo rear-firing tweeters need some reflection path length, but not nea... |