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| 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 | |
| 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... |