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| 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 ... | |
| Alternatives to Brick and Mortar Thanks for responding, @jaytor . I agree with your observation that "home audition can be a reasonable approach if the shipping costs are a fairly small part of the cost of the product..." Pure Audio Project has an interesting approach to less... | |
| Alternatives to Brick and Mortar @jaytor wrote: "I’d like to have the opportunity to hear products in a well designed listening environment and most of the dealers in my area, for one reason or another, don’t seem to have been able to pull this off, and many of the products I’d l... | |
| speakers for a large room Topjetboy wrote: "I am looking for a bigger sweet spot (soundstage?), more presence to fill the room a little better without losing the clarity, the realism and the quick response (articulate?) of the maggies." Interesting challenge! My backgroun... | |
| JBL 4367 shoutiness remedies? Deckhand, you might try listening from fairly far off-axis, like 20-25 degrees. I suggest moving the speakers a bit further apart than normal and toeing them in severely, like 45 degrees and maybe even more, such that their axes criss-cross well i... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. From the article: " I admire Toole’s work, but I do not admire conformists who insist... that everything be judged by the same narrow criteria. " I agree with writer Jim Austin. Neither Floyd Toole nor his colleague Sean Olive claim that their mea... | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? Erik, If I started referring to those who advocate bass traps as "flat earthers", would I not be discrediting the technology? Same thing when you refer to those who advocate multiple subs as "cultists". Erik, IF you have a beef with Miller Carbon,... | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? @erik_squires, speaking of straw men and/or reading comprehension, you wrote: " You’ve stated I’ve attempted to discredit the technology." No I did not. I provided TWO quotes wherein you called multi-sub advocates "cultists", and then in a follow-... |