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| What is the best audiophile speaker for a tiny square room? Atma-sphere amps have been mentioned, and imo they work very well with SoundLabs (disclaimer: I'm a dealer for both). One of the nice things about the Atma-Sphere amps is that you can pull out some of the power tubes and run them at reduced pow... | |
| Is the ideal multi-way a 3-way with limited bass? I agree with jamesbgood. If there IS an ideal, imo it probably includes adjustable bass. Several manufacturers use powered woofer sections which include a lot of adjustability, but often a ported box is more adjustable than it seems at first glanc... | |
| What's wrong with my speaker? You could try rotating the driver 90 degrees so that the problem area is at 12:00, and MAYBE gravity will help. If that doesn’t work, you could also try it with the problem area at 6:00. This is a long shot.More than likely the voice coil is no lo... | |
| Jamo concert 11 sound issue. If you're lucky, it might be a loose screw. Just in case, check to make sure the screws are snug. Imo the loose screw thing is a long shot - my guess is that the midrange driver has been damaged by overheating. You may not have sent too much po... | |
| Bass Driver Size - how much better is an extra inch? Emergingsoul wrote: "Have older b&w speakers and bass drivers are 7 inches vs 804 d3 speakers that are 6 1/2. The larger drivers seem to really open the sound stage, more open and less constrained. Imaging of older speakers not as good but... | |
| Looking for more detail in a speaker Take a look at the on-axis frequency response curve of the 805 D3: https://www.stereophile.com/content/bowers-wilkins-805-d3-loudspeaker-measurements In particular notice the 6 dB peak at 10 kHz. Imo that might make a percussion instrument pop ... | |
| 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... |