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| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms @br3098 wrote: "omnidirectional speakers better mimic the music we prefer in the venues we typically listen live." I get it! Good omnis have very rich timbre and convey a wonderful sense of spaciousness, especially when they have a bit of breathin... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms @mapman wrote: "Note that Ohm Walsh are not full but rather pseudo omni (polydirectional?) to manage the reverberative field better in most rooms. The driver is physically attenuated with absorbing material inside the can in the wall facing direct... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms @erik_squires wrote: "Duke, Having a pro in the thread is like cheating. :)" "If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough." - Gene LeBell (off topic, but he’s the old guy who choked out Steven Seagal. Twice. In the same day.) Erik: "Can ... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? To smodtactical, Imo the sheer size of your large listening space bodes well for bass reproduction. Arguably what the Swarm does in a smaller room is, approximate the in-room response that we’d get with fewer subs in a much larger room. I do think... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? Tyray wrote: "Duke, I have been to the Swarm website this weekend but did not see the Azel's? Could you give me a link to the Azel's and any other of your products I may have missed please. Thanks!" My website is being revised, but Jim Romeyn'... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Omni speakers have been mentioned several times, and there is definitely something they do right which contributes to dealing with terrible rooms: Their off-axis response has the same spectral balance as their on-axis response. Thus their reverber... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? Tyray asked: "Can a customer use their own passive subwoofers of choice?" You can totally use your subs of choice, active or passive. Here is the amplifier that I use to drive my passive subs, note that it has a single band of EQ and a switchable ... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Tomic61 wrote: "amp + speaker + room +ear/brain = system" Very well said!! By the way I’ve yet to hear a pair of the Larsens, but their innovative approach makes a lot of sense to me. Duke | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? Lusima31 wrote: "I found the same with my 4 AK subs, without the port plugs they sound very good so the sealed vs vented sub dilemma I have a feeling it depends on other things, maybe the dimensions (length and diameter) of the port in proportion ... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms The way a speaker interacts with the room is a big part of how it sounds, for better or for worse. Imo it is possible to design a speaker to interact favorably with a very wide variety of rooms, including "terrible" ones. Several basic principles ... | |
| Bass at your ears? (Bass imaging) The bassline on that recording is a form of "wobble bass", which in and of itself does not explain the "claustrophobic" sensation. The size of the acoustic space is conveyed by the reverberation. A small space is conveyed by rapid onset and rapid ... | |
| Bass at your ears? (Bass imaging) My guess is that it’s part of the recording, and is probably deliberate. If the bass was the only instrument recorded with little or no reverb then it would be the only instrument which would tend to sound "proximate", or close to one’s ears. Sort... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver akwilson501 wrote: "I’m trying to cross my tweeter over around 15khz, wouldn’t a .33uf capacitor be ideal, in a 1st order filter? Considering the 106 db on the fostex, and the 96db for the fullrange... "3uf and 1.5uf seem as little high doesn’t i... | |
| Stuck at home? Make a kit!! I agree with Eric that there is enormous satisfaction in DIY audio. My second pair of speakers used the drivers and crossover from a kit that KEF offered back in the late 1970’s, and performance-wise they killed my first pair of store-bought, maga... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver mijostyn wrote: "Duke, I think the L pad or resistor goes in series in front of the capacitor and driver. No?" If the input power levels are low then you can probably get away with placing the L-pad in front of the capacitor, but you LOSE the L-pa... |