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| Best bass in Earth! Bass that just smells right... @brotw posted: "Do 4+ instead of dual subs shine best in monitor/stat/maggie systems with subs crossed at ~80 HZ?" I think that’s a fair statement. But I have customers crossing over their Swarms at the minimum 30 Hz setting and finding them to be... | |
| Best bass in Earth! Bass that just smells right... @brotw posted: " As I understand it, an array of subs would be very effective at smoothing out the bass response of the room over a wider sweet spot. What about spatial cues from bass frequencies? " The good news is, you can have both. My understa... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts " Tried the "swarm" approach and moved four subs into the room but unfortunately found out that they all have about the same tops and dips wherever placed (+/- 20 db from 25 to 100 Hz). " Did each sub have the same in-room frequency response curve... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts Thank you very much, ctsooner. I am honored that Richard Vandersteen thinks the distributed multi-sub approach (which is actually Earl Geddes’ idea that I’m using with his permission) has merit. Duke | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts These three different approaches (bass trapping, EQ, distributed multisubs) each do something different. The goal is "smooth bass", because "smooth bass" = "fast bass"; it is the peaks in the in-room frequency response which decay more slowly and ... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts Audiozenology wrote: " If you force time alignment, then you force maximum wave reinforcement in the listening position which negates the point of a distributed bass array to even out frequency response by negating room modes." My understanding is... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts @kenjit quoting millercarbon and then replying:" ideally the sound from the sub should reach the listening position at exactly the same time and at exactly the same phase angle as the woofers in the satellite speakers. "Which is not possible with ... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts Noble100 wrote: "This knowledge was the impetus for Duke creating his 4-sub Swarm DBA system that has won multiple product of the year awards (2015 and 2019):" Just to clarify, the Swarm only received a single Product of the Year award, for 2015,... | |
| Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts @rooze asked, "How does running a swarm setup, with 4 subs, affect phase/time integration with the mains? Does it create twice or half the issue or remove it altogether?" Briefly, a distributed multi-sub setup is quite flexible in positioning and ... | |
| Wilson Audio for a 1600 sq ft space Yvl wrote: "I have a somewhat surrealist decor..." If Salvadore Dali had been a speaker designer:http://horns.pl/en/speaker-sets/universum-3-way/ | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene "I guess speakers that are weak between 80 and 140 are not very common ..." I agree, not very common. This was the only such case I have been involved with. Duke | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene Luisma31 wrote: "...no no no, with your midbass driver I think the 80 hz works wonderful, actually I run mine 60 below, don’t you dare touch my crossover Duke, sounds perfect the way it is." Thank you Luis! I was referring to the hypothetical si... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene " The bottom octave is generally considered to be 20Hz to 40Hz, the second octave 40-80Hz and so on. "This is what I had in mind when I was talking about "the bottom octave or so". I don't normally recommend running the Swarm higher than about 8... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene @noble100 wrote: "I was just going to contact you with a question I have about whether room bass treatments negatively or positively effect the performance of the Swarm/Debra bass systems in a given room." In my opinion room treatment in the bass... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene Installo43, yeah I don't think I could buy a testimonial like that one if I wanted to!In your situation I think we'd use essentially the same approach... run the Treo's fullrange, and use the Swarm to fill in the bottom octave or so. I have owner... |