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| Was the Snell Secret a Wide Baffle? " ...all that mass poured into that woofer was going to deteriorate the suspension no matter which direction it points. "You're probably right, but with the woofer cone in the vertical rather than horizontal plane, you'd at least have the option... | |
| What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker? Not to brag, but... My subwoofers are so fast, they can do a 20-cycle sine wave in a MERE fifty milliseconds. Not only that, I’ll go out on a limb and claim NOBODY makes a subwoofer that can complete a 20-cycle sine wave in less time than mine. ;^... | |
| Was the Snell Secret a Wide Baffle? Imo there are MANY things right about the Snell Type A. The wide baffle is one of them. When placed as intended (back against the wall), I think the extremely large radius round-over made a relatively smooth transition from baffle to wall. So you ... | |
| Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement Audiotroy wrote: " The Uni Q driver allows for a very wide soundstage and is also a very coherent sounding driver, we would recommend that you install a small wooden lip made by using a 1 * 2 on the front bottom of the cabinet which will keep the ... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Luisma31 wrote: " Thank you for the analysis on the Boenicke’s " Thank you!! My first commercial effort, dating back to 2005, used a fullrange driver augmented by a rear-firing tweeter and a built-in powered woofer section. I did not do nearly as ... | |
| Flea Watt Amp: What Speakers Are. You Using With Yours? Recommendations Alexberger wrote: "I think that " fairly narrow radiation pattern over much of the spectrum" is a good thing." Agreed! "Actually, if speakers have a narrow radiation pattern you listen what is actually recorded. If speakers have a wide radiation ... | |
| most realistic sound from a stand mount Loudspeaker active or passive @juant71 wrote: " Antero speaker by Wavetouch audio. I haven’t heard any other live recording video more real than this one." What are the devices we see in front of the midwoofer and in front of the tweeter @ 7:30? They look like microphones. Duke | |
| Thoughts for Future Speaker Designers " It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with hi end audio, or even speakers for that matter. " And it’s almost two years old. Soundsrealaudio, maybe you pasted the wrong link...?? | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? " Small companies... may only have one line of speakers, but they still work top down. " Not necessarily. I can’t speak for big companies obviously, but sometimes a small company will try to make one speaker to address one particular set of requir... | |
| Flea Watt Amp: What Speakers Are. You Using With Yours? Recommendations Dave123456 wrote: " Kind of in your face sound though, from what I hear this is typical for high efficiency designs. " "In your face sound" is not necessarily inherent to high efficiency, but often there is a tendency in that direction. Here are t... | |
| Just how big is our foot print? " I’m going to have to step back and think about how I use this new found power I didn’t know I had." Ime you use your powers for good, and I’m sure opportunities to do so will find you wherever you go. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if you continue... | |
| Klipsch, introduces The Cornwall IV, and I think it will be a killer ! I definitely like the geometry of their new midhorn better than the old one. Nice move Klipsch!Duke | |
| Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics Kenjit wrote: "which is why you need to stop tinkering with these horrible passive crossovers." The fallacy here is that your statement assumes facts which are not in evidence. You have not established that passive crossovers are horrible, nor tha... | |
| Cconfused... Ishkabilil wrote: " Are not accuracy and realism much the same? " You would think so, but here is an example of what can happen: "Accuracy" is often evaluated by some relatively convenient metric, such as total harmonic distortion, which may or ma... | |
| Speaker Analysis for Armchair Critics Xyobgyn wrote: "Quite possibly we should have crossovers with some caps and or resistors we could swap easily to adjust the sound to where we want it." I have been making crossovers with an external resistor that functions as a "tilt/level" contro... |