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| 2ch Upgrade for Unfocused Listening You might consider Morrison Audio. Extremely well thought-out design.Duke | |
| The best looking speakers As a start, you might invite your wife to flip through a few audio magazines with you. Hopefully you will start to home in on where what she likes and what you want overlap. Duke | |
| speaker impeadance question "I’m afraid I must offer another correction, this being a matter of considerable significance... It was actually a different character, "Emily Litella," who concluded her commentary on Saturday Night Live with the words "never mind." " Well, it j... | |
| speaker impeadance question @almarg wrote: " I believe some of them have been made without the realization that the OP’s monoblock amps are solid state." Oops. As Roseanna Roseannadanna would say: "Well... nevermind." Duke | |
| speaker impeadance question Erik wrote: "What huge spike [in the impedance curve]?? "That’s very typical for a speaker with a 2 way crossover. What I’m impressed with is how flat the rest of the speaker impedance curve is."The impedance curve can matter a great deal when it ... | |
| speaker impeadance question " What I am concerned about is the huge [impedance] spike at 3khz..." Notice that this impedance spike (which is closer to 2.5 kHz) corresponds with a frequency response dip, when driven by whatever voltage-paradigm amp the NRC uses. So an amp li... | |
| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers Teo wrote: "reduction in spl vs seating distance is almost perfectly linear with panel speakers and is almost exponential with point source speakers."Cleeds asked: "Huh? How can that possibly be? Have you actually measured this?"Intensity (in this... | |
| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers " The new speakers have a wider dispersion. "Imo there may well be a correlation between WHERE the dispersion is wide and WHAT lourdes is hearing.According to Stereophile's measurements, the Rockports are dead flat on-axis. This means they inevit... | |
| Very small room systems and synergy gmc56 wrote: "...all my systems have sounded screechy and lacking in mid bass to bass."Imo "screechy" implies excess energy in the 2-4 kHz region. This is where many speakers have a crossover from midwoofer to tweeter. The tweeter typically has a ... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Mijostyn wrote: "Duke I need you to define what you mean by a minimum phase system."I probably shouldn’t have used that term, as it sounds like I’m talking about phase response. You can google the term "minimum phase system" if you want.Instead of... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Mijostyn wrote: "The statement that the ear (which should be ears) have very poor time domain response is 180 degrees wrong."You are correct! I did not proofread carefully. Here is what I should have said:"Because the ear has very poor time domain... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Mijostyn wrote:"For the drivers to act as one they can be no farther apart than 1/2 the wavelength of the crossover point."You do an excellent job of explaining your suggestion, but imo the issue it addresses is not one that a distributed multisub... | |
| Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers Gochurchgo wrote: "One speaker I heard that I liked was the Spatial M5. I had ruled it out as a floor stander."Imo the Spatial M5 would be an excellent candidate for your situation.Many moons ago I was a dealer for Clayton Shaw, back in the early... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr I've owned several pairs of Maggies, several pairs of Quads, Martin Logans, and several pairs of SoundLabs. I chose to become a SoundLab dealer.SoundLabs have the most natural-sounding timbre of any speaker I have spent time with. I say this as ... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Audiorusty wrote: "With as good as a DBA system is, there still will be only one sweet spot in the room."Imaging will of course be best in the sweet spot.But it is possible for the imaging to hold up fairly well across a fairly wide listening area... |