audiokinesis
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| What 4 subwoofers to buy? Elate wrote: "I have been reading alot lately about the DBA thing, and without even trying it, I am positive that it will be the best thing for me." You must be pretty good at wrapping your head around new ideas, because the idea that four subs sp... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music @jl35 wrote: "when using 2 subs with floor standers, do they need to be identical or can they be close models..." They do not need to be the same. Duke | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music @erik_squires wrote: "The swarm was an interesting idea which is promoted by fetishists whose motives and honesty I question... Please mark me down as some one who no longer believes those people are well meaning. I’ll no longer bother arguing wit... | |
| Jeff Bagby passes away due to Covid Farewell Jeff. Thank you for contributing so much to our little corner of this world. | |
| To horn or not to horn Needlebrush wrote: "I’m curious if there are any who are first time horn speaker owners after having owned other types of speakers for many years, and are you glad you switched?" I don’t fall into that category. My (condensed) back-story is, I was... | |
| Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered? @m-db asked: "Wasn’t Dr. Floyd Toole adamant regarding cables lack of any measurable difference hence no sonic effect in the audio chain?" I vaguely recall something like that. (My own experience with cables, which includes conducting a blind list... | |
| Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered? @cleeds wrote: "The price for that smooth, even, neutral bass is that your bass will be monophonic." This is a misconception probably arising from the fact that the "regular" configuration for my price-conscious Swarm system only uses a single cha... | |
| Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered? Ieales wrote: " DBA proponents are not charlatans, but neither are they correct as the the ability it to produce time coherent bass. " Arrival time coherence in the bass region is not critical, but decay time coherence in the bass region is. The e... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science "Once we get into the non-linear things, it can get complicated real fast." - Richard Feynman Very true!! Fortunately as long as loudspeakers are not pushed past their linear excursion limits, non-linear distortion is highly unlikely. What is NOT ... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Andy2 wrote: "One cannot judge a pair of speaker with the freq and phase plot." Agreed, a frequency plot and a phase plot are insufficient. But there is fairly good evidence that one can judge a pair of speakers with a sufficiently comprehensive s... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik: "OK, I’ve briefly read the AES papers [pertaining to the GedLee Metric]. So Duke proposes a way of modelling systems so that multiple non-linear behaviors can be amalgamated at once, and then comparing that to what is known about auditory ma... | |
| Listening Room Dimensions... I'm building one and need your help One reason for my suggestion of "hire a professional" BEFORE building the room is that there are differing schools of thought on the importance of room dimension ratios. I am quite familiar with golden ratios and their theoretical desirability, bu... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science @erik_squires wrote: "The point was that we talk about a handful of measurements as if they were all we needed and all we should ever have, and we call this science." Who is this "we"? Duke | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik wrote: "Don’t focus on distortion. Focus on us in consumer land (albeit educated consumer) having a limited number of measures and assuming we can’t have or use more." I am confused. Can you restate what you are looking for? I’m sure it’s cle... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik wrote: "Measurements in the consumer literature have become complacent. We’ve become far too willing to accept the limits of measurements from the 1980’s and fail to develop new standard ways of testing. As a result of this we have devolved i... |