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| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution " What is the smallest room size recommended for use with the DEBRA/SWARM systems? " This will be somewhat counter-intuitive, but a small room benefits more from a distributed multisub system than a large room does. The reason is, smaller rooms a... | |
| 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 ... |