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| Best bookshelf loudspeakers under 10,000 for the pair Jcwaudio wrote: " I am downsize my system from Martin Logan electrostats and quad 2905 And would like a bookshelf that would have some of the same attributes of the quads. " Quads are a very tough act to follow. Aside from their articulation and f... | |
| Looking for an acoustic engineer or specialist First of all, kudos to you ebenlees, for setting out to really do it right! The difference between what a professional acoustician can do and what an enthusiastic amateur acoustician can do is huge. I fall into the latter category and after expe... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? Deep_333 wrote: "Many hardcore audiophiles i know stick with 2 channel music systems, a.k.a, their high end turntables, DACs, integrated amps/monoblocks, etc with no bass management. These guys try subs and abandon them because they can’t get it t... | |
| Is room treatment a science? Millercarbon wrote, "That Geddes book is a gold mine! If only I had known - and it had come out a dozen years earlier!" Yes it is a gold mine, under-appreciated probably because it has "Home Theater" in the title. I’ve been in Earl’s home theater ... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? Deep_333 wrote: " Now, when subs are being integrated with these speakers, the sub appears to be an afterthought. An end user like myself who’s not a speaker designer or professional audio engineer, is somehow being asked by sub manufacturers to m... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? Millercarbon to tomic601: " So you choose liar. " Miller, just for the record, I’m not comfortable with what you did there. In a now-deleted post you called for tomic to do such-and-such or else he was (in your words) a liar, and when he didn’t, y... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? " Duke - I will resend you the hi-rez photo at your AK business email." Got it - THANK YOU! Very interesting pattern of waves on the lake!! How were the patterns moving? Duke | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? Deep_333 wrote, " Duke, Can you name the popular opinions among sub manufacturers on how they think it should be addressed? Of course, more subs a.k.a an array of 4, 8 or 16 is great for business. But, are there other opinions out there?" Setting ... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? Deep_333 wrote: "Why do you guys pursue a flat response when you buy a subwoofer?... The minute you put that flat sub in your room and take some measurements, it is anything but flat (it's a rollercoaster with all kinds of peaks/nulls etc, EQ... | |
| Is room treatment a science? The sciences of acoustics and psychoacoustics are applicable to room treatments. I agree with @erik_squires ’ recommendation of Floyd Toole, in particular his book "Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms". ... | |
| Component Advice for Small Room with Lively Surfaces Vanquish wrote: "This makes a lot of sense Duke and I am wondering if there are any particular dipoles and horns that you would recommend?" In my opinion SoundLab fullrange electrostats do an excellent job in a wide range of rooms, assuming they... | |
| Component Advice for Small Room with Lively Surfaces In my opinion working "with the room" rather than "against the room" matters a great deal... especially in small, lively room. Two things come to mind: First, we want the reverberant sound to have essentially the same spectral balance as the direc... | |
| Soundstage Width and Depth @geoffkait wrote: " The best and easiest way look at soundstage imho is that the better the output signal the larger the 3 dimensional sphere of the recording venue will be presented. " I’ll concede that what you propose is the "easiest" way to lo... | |
| Soundstage Width and Depth Heaudio123, I have not delved into ambiophonics to the point of understanding it, but at least for a while Ralph Glasgal was using SoundLab speakers. I am under the impression that with ambiophonics the listener’s position is critical, and I’m mor... | |
| Soundstage Width and Depth Heaudio123 wrote: "The source "appearing" outside the speakers is "encoded" in the music with either mixing methods or microphone techniques, but and it is a big but, how that appears on playback is highly dependent on speaker, listening position,... |