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| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) One possible source of aggressive treble is poor amp/speaker matching, but this is not something which is obvious to most people. One would think good amp + good speaker = good results, but not necessarily.If I understand correctly, the amplifier ... | |
| The next big driver hype: Textreme @erik_squires wrote: "Just thought I’d mention it now, since in a few months we are probably going to be seeing a number of drivers, possibly tweeters as well as mids and woofers of this material." Eyeballing the waterfall plots of similar driver... | |
| Not sure of term but I notice some distortion/vibration coming out the speaker port? If it’s a mechanical noise, it could many things but one of them is unsecured wires vibrating from the air movement due to the port. If it’s a "flutter" then it could be either chuffing or an air leak. I once had a small air leak underneath the fl... | |
| Warn Sound Capacitor In my opinion "warmth" comes more from the shape of the frequency response curve than from the capacitor itself; in other words "warmth" is more of a speaker voicing issue than a capacitor brand issue. On the other hand imo "clarity" and "resolut... | |
| wide baffles and baffle step @avanti1960 wrote: "With respect to baffle step compensation, unless the baffle is wide enough to impinge on the limits of room space and physical practicality there will be a 3db loss of all frequencies below the baffle step frequency. For examp... | |
| wide baffles and baffle step Tomic601, my understanding is that sound waves are longitudinal pressure fluctuations, not transverse waves (even though we tend to draw them that way), and therefore there is no phase change when they reflect or diffract. There is of course a... | |
| wide baffles and baffle step Thank you very much, arion and twoleftears. Imo "wave launch" is a good description of what a wide baffle does well. I don't know whether it is technically precise or not, but the image it conjures up in my mind is of a sound wave getting a bett... | |
| wide baffles and baffle step @avanti1960 wrote: " wider baffles create the need for additional crossover components and complicate the voicing recipe. " That has not been my experience. With a sufficiently wide baffle, no dedicated baffle-step compensation circuitry is needed... | |
| Is imaging reality? To a certain extent, imaging can take the place of having visual cues. | |
| What are the advantages of electrostatic versus floor speakers w/wo external drivers? Sokogear wrote: " I like to be able to be in different locations since my system is in my den that is open all the way back to my kitchen seating area - probably a total of 44’ x 18’ with some openings in the back. " Disclaimer: I am a dealer for ... | |
| Subwoofer. Great one song. Not so great the next song. @erik_squires wrote: "Um, sealing will limit the mains and, most importantly, limit driver excursion which is what I was getting to. Even without a filter. Below resonance the port is basically just a huge hole, and the suspension value of ... | |
| Subwoofer. Great one song. Not so great the next song. N80 wrote: " On some songs the combo with the sub just sounds stellar. On others it sounds boomy and thumpy. My audiophile hang up is taught, clear, concise bass. I do not like boomy and thumpy at all. I can get up and turn the output on the sub d... | |
| speakers for a large room "nice setup." Thank you! "I was looking for the mentioned ’space generator’. Is that something from another dimension?" Yes and no. We interface the pandimensional locality field with a velocity zone, then rotate the phase such that the spacetime ... | |
| speakers for a large room @topjetboy wrote: " @Duke I never had the maggies 2 feet away. I tried it today but really did not like it. As it is now, they are back to 5 feet away from the back and 2 ft away from the side." Well I admire your quest for knowledge in trying 2 f... | |
| speakers for a large room Good call, topjetboy! Thanks for posting that; I can see that you’re pretty hard-core. I agree with Matt’s analysis. (Incidentally the time/intensity trading image that Matt is talking about when your link opens up at 17:02 has a mistake: The FAR ... |