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| 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... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @jdlynch wrote: "Does the swarm system work equally as well for home theater and music listening? I am 90% HT use and powerful, room shaking, chest pounding bass is what I’m looking for. I currently have a single Seaton Submersive with dual oppose... | |
| Best room treatment @soix wrote: "I highly recommend reading “Premium Home Theater” by Earl Geddes that I believe is now only available through download. By far the most approachable and helpful thing I’ve read on creating a good-sounding room. I’d go so far ... | |
| Does your pet listen to your system? I have a customer whose dog could recognize when he played a new piece of classical music that the dog hadn’t heard before. He would come running into the room and stare at the speakers (big SoundLab electrostats) with his head cocked to one side.... | |
| Speakers which always sound good Imo there are general design attributes which can contribute to a speaker sounding consistent (and hopefully consistently good) from one room to the next. If the reflected or reverberant energy sounds like the direct sound, then whether the room r... | |
| Am I too big of a jerk,even for audiogon? @erik_squires wrote: "Technically, my post is a parody." Well done! I’d like to phrase my $.02 worth of commentary in the form of an allegory: Once upon a time there was a family whose value system included kindness to other creatures. They recei... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Kenjit wrote: " If you are nothing but a fellow DBA advocate, why is it that you are the only one whose name pops up everytime DBA is mentioned on this forum? Why do you have the right to claim ownership of the DBA concept by using a proprietary n... | |
| Poor Fritz I have heard Fritz speakers on several occasions at audio shows. They have sounded excellent every time. In my opinion they are outstanding both within their price range and within their size ballpark. Duke | |
| Sound Absorption Behind and Between the Speakers? Thank you very much, jbrrp1 and hilde45. Tvad, I’d be inclined to use diffusion rather than absorption, but I’m not expert enough in types of diffusion to make a suggestion beyond that. Phase grating comes to mind as a possibility. If you go with... | |
| Sound Absorption Behind and Between the Speakers? In a home audio setting, there is in effect a "competition" between the "small room signature" cues inherent to the playback room, and the "venue cues" which are on the recording, whether the latter be real or engineered or both. The ear/brain sys... |