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| 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,... | |
| Soundstage Width and Depth Soundstage width which extends to the outside of the speakers can be encoded on the recording, but it can also be the result of strong early sidewall reflections. The Precedence Effect is not completely effective at suppressing directional cues fr... | |
| Religious music for less than devout "A Christmas Song" - Jethro Tull "Amazing Grace" - The Blind Boys of Alabama "Another Christmas Song" - yup, Jethro Tull again "Hymn" - Barclay James Harvest | |
| Two medium size woofers Vs One big size woofer "Acceleration factor" is the ratio of force or motor strength (Bl) divided by moving mass (Mms). It ignores cone area, and is imo therefore misleading. Let me illustrate why: Suppose we are comparing a single 10-inch woofer against four 10-inch wo... | |
| Swarming! @audioquest4life wrote: " I ordered the Classic Audio Loudspeakers T1.5 reference" Congratulations! AWESOME speaker!! Audioquest4life: "I love that I can turn the volume way up on the subs when playing Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith, and j... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music Xcool asked, " Do you have any suggestion on reducing vibration to the wall behind and to the side of my subwoofer? Would acoustic panel or bass trap help? " To the extent that the vibrations in the walls are structure-borne, the SVS SoundPath Iso... | |
| Is my room size going to be a problem for speakers? " It's only 10 feet by 10 feet " In a room that size, one problem is that the reflections path lengths are very short. In general the earlier a reflection arrives, the more likely it is to be detrimental to timbre or clarity or both. IF you h... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music Xcool wrote: "Later that evening the building manager sent out an email to all residents that he received a complaint from some residents that they hear very loud bass music coming through their wall..." My guess is that the heavy passive radiator... | |
| More Power or use subwoofer to boost bass for music @erik_squires wrote: "Maybe there’s a different way for swarm fan boys to behave more respectfully towards others and try to answer the OP’s question without asking him to triple the number of speakers in his home??" "Swarm fan boys" are not perfe... |