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| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene "Does anyone here have experience pairing a Swarm/DEBRA with relatively full range speakers...in this instance the Vandersteen Treo’s?"Installo43, one of my customers has Vandersteen Quatros. Before getting the Swarm, he had been using one sub and... | |
| The midi range, not the tweeter, is the most important driver in a speaker. I agree that the midrange region matters most, but not necessarily that the midrange driver itself matters most. Imo how well the midrange driver works with its partners, the woofer & tweeter, matters more than the individual excellence viewe... | |
| The midi range, not the tweeter, is the most important driver in a speaker. " [The Yamaha NS-10’s] are too revealing not distorting. They are used by the best recording studios. They could choose any speaker they like." The NS-10 is not an accurate speaker, but its value is this: If the mix sounds good on the NS-10, then ... | |
| 3D imaging Not many people realize that there can be a tradeoff relationship between soundstage width and imaging precision. Strong early sidewall reflections expand the apparent width of the soundstage but they do so at the expense of imaging precision, and... | |
| Congratulations Atmasphere! Ralph has a uniquely thorough appreciation and understanding of "what matters to the ear". My mentor Earl Geddes (with Lydia Lee) had a pair of peer-reviewed papers on distortion perception published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society... | |
| Best home remedy for paper cone woofers cleaning the dust off? My paper cones usually have accordion surrounds so I use a soft paintbrush which has never been used for anything else, and it does a pretty good job of reaching into the valleys of the accordion. | |
| NSMT Speakers? in 2017 @nsmt2 wrote: "Just a followup to the troll by audiokinesis about our Chorus speaker. "The NSMT Chorus Powered Wireless Speaker is a forward-looking design that may point to how most speakers are designed in the future." Massage: Spend mor... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene I just wanted to make it known that, in addition to Jim Romeyn's DEBRA which differs from my Swarm in footprint (his is rectangular, mine is square), Vinh Vu of Ginko Audio offers a slimmer and trimmer Swarm-type system as part of his Sextet, whic... | |
| Crossover Capacitor In Parallel with Woofer Sometimes what works is a second-order lowpass filter with a lower-than-normal L/C ratio and a resistor in series with the capacitor on the shunt leg. This is a damping resistor which prevents response peaking and its accompanying impedance dip. T... | |
| Are there any current high end dipole speakers (dynamic)? Berner99 asks: "Wouldn’t the amount of reflected sound that reaches listener be very different from dipole/bipole vs any random ported box speaker?" Assuming similar radiation pattern shapes, yes having two such patterns - one in the front and one... | |
| Are there any current high end dipole speakers (dynamic)? berner99 wrote: "So while sound walking around the room may or may not be a marketing gimmick, a 3" sweet spot means something fundamental is wrong. c. Also in any indoor concert some percentage of sound reaching you will be indirect. Are most spe... | |
| Sound pressure level and Room size for ESLs Which electrostat? Some approximate a point source, some approximate a line source, and some do it better than others (size matters). If the listening distance is the same then the SPL of the first-arrival sound will be the same, but as the room ... | |
| Owner of "Anticables" and dealer for Spatial Audio is an amazing guy Yup, Paul is one of the good guys. He is brilliant and sincere. He even tries to help his competitors (based on my experience with him). So does Clayton for that matter. They make an outstanding team. Duke | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene " If I understand correctly, one of the ceiling subs can be in a corner with polarity reversed. " I normally suggest one sub in a corner (but no more than one), and that a different sub be the one with its polarity reversed... but, once your chec... | |
| Which speakers have rear firing speakers and how do they sound? Cdc2 wrote: " in search of the most live sounding speaker - suggestions? " Cdc2 breaks it down for us: "Which speakers actually get it right accomplishing both goals of "A. providing accurate sound replicating the studio recording with decent imag... |