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| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @mikhailark , thank you for the additional information. That’s a nice big room, which imo implies that you will probably want fairly high voltage sensitivity for use with your 30-watt Pass Labs amp. You might consider speakers with a voltage sens... | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? @mikhailark, ime a "relaxed, non-fatiguing sound" is predicted by a gently downward-sloping first-arrival sound, and an off-axis sound that has a very similar spectral balance. I’m not a big fan of deliberately introducing dippage into the 2-6 kHz... | |
| Speaker Slip Covers I have prosound customers who use custom-made speaker cabinet covers from Studio Slips, Tuki, and LeCover. | |
| LONE STAR AUDIOFEST JUNE 7-9 DALLAS WHO IS ATTENDING? @calvinj, thank you. Turns out I won't be at T.H.E. show either, nor will the new product (arrrgh); I will be occupied out-of-town that weekend. See you at whatever's next, I hope! I'm sure you'll have a fantastic show with INFIGO and GATO!! | |
| High Pass Filter for Mains Marchand has been in business for decades. I had a Marchand crossover nearly forty years ago. It worked great, eventually a neighbor kid destroyed the speakers and replacement parts for the speakers were unobtainium. Imo you can buy from Marchand... | |
| The Center, Measured Not that I’ve looked at every set of off-axis measurements done on a center-channel speaker, but I’ve seldom seen off-axis response that good on a conventional speaker, let alone a center-channel speaker! (For anyone wondering what I’m talking ab... | |
| The Center, Measured Imo that is SUPERB off-axis performance for a center channel speaker. Bravo! | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @helomech wrote: "It’s quite apparent from his posts that Audiokineses doesn’t have a strong grasp of speaker science." Could you elaborate? I'd like to know where you disagree with me. I'm not infallible. Thanks. | |
| Passive subwoofer amps help! @mijostyn , I agree with you about the heat issue. Except for the very first generation of my subwoofer system, dating back to 2006, I haven't been putting amps inside of subwoofers. My observation (based largely on conversations with customers)... | |
| Passive subwoofer amps help! @mijostyn , thanks for the QSC suggestion. I should have mentioned that the Dayton SA-1000 has a fixed 80 Hz second-order line level highpass filter to roll off the bottom end going to the amp for the main speakers. No DSP in the Dayton; it's a... | |
| Passive subwoofer amps help! Dayton Audio makes a thousand-watt shelf-mount Class AB subwoofer amp with controls for phase, low-pass frequency (4th order slope), and gain, and it has a single band of parametric EQ. It's called the SA-1000. Available from Parts Express, Part ... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @erik_squires wrote: "I'm reading @audiokinesis but avoiding commenting when I just don't know what I'm talking about. Honestly my experience with very poor measuring speakers is rather limited so I yield the floor. 🤣" Here is Floyd Toole being... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Not all dips are created equal even if they look similar. How the dip was caused makes a significant difference. Comb filter effects tend to be considerably more benign than the dip in an anechoic or quasi-anechoic curve implies. This is because ... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @wyoboy wrote: "@audiokinesis With your discussion of on-axis/off-axis, made me wonder if that means these speakers should not be toed-in--ie so listening position is off-axis? or perhaps toed-in to where the "crossing point" is in front of listen... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? @erik_squires wrote: "If the peaks and dips are not audible, as @audiokinesis suggests then I wonder why and how they went through all the trouble to introduce them in the first place?" I think the up/down peak/dip jogs are artifacts of the encl... |