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| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. @bdp24 was wondering if there were "any modern horns that are free of the classic horn colorations."Off the top of my head, in no particular order:Classic Audio, JBL (M2 and 4367), GedLee, PBN (“M” series), Pi Speakers, Volti, Edgarhorn, Zingali, ... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Mijostyn wrote: "there is a compromise in a two way horn system that is difficult to get around. You either have to run a woofer up into the midrange or make a very large horn to get down to where most woofers do well."Done right, I don’t think th... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @shadorne wrote: "Horns tend to have an uneven radiation pattern with frequency."It depends on the horn. Many horns (such as tractrix or exponential) tend to have a wide pattern down low and a narrow pattern up high. Often PA horns have a cons... | |
| Big systems - Little rooms "I'm on board with using multiple subs, but in a bedroom?"I was thinking of a room that might otherwise have been a bedroom but was being used as a dedicated audio (or perhaps audio/video)room instead. Sorry I wasn't clear!Duke | |
| Big systems - Little rooms In a fairly small room (say a spare bedroom), two main issues arise:1. The bass response will typically have major peaks and dips largely due to the room modes being few and far apart (an inevitable consequence of the room being small); and2. The ... | |
| The 60 Ohm Speaker Tweak Good idea. I prefer the actual impedance compensation circuit, but a large value resistor in parallel with everything, as you describe, is a much simpler approach, and can probably make a worthwhile net improvement in speaker compatibility with ... | |
| Need Suggestions Hi nkonor,Your Avalons are a VERY tough act to follow. I was a SoundLab dealer for many years and Avalon was the only similar-price-ballpark "conventional" speaker that I really wanted to become a dealer for. (Instead I ended up becoming a speak... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @noble100 wrote: "But my main reason for posting is to ask about your quote above. Was " and time-delay it such that it cancels the signal from the front wall when it arrives." accurate and not a typo?"That’s what I meant to write.My understandin... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @rauliruegas wrote: "we not necessarily need 4 subs we can do it with two true subs. The Harman white papers proves that.... My target is to have the best solution ( rigth now with two true subs. ) at one and only one seat position where the mids ... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? Hi @lewinskih01, you asked, "What is your point of view about time alignment of a SWARM or other DBA systems?"Imo time alignment is at best a secondary consideration in a distributed multi-sub system, from a perceptual standpoint. The ear has very... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @rauliruegas wrote, about the AudioKinesis Swarm:"For a 10" woofer (as the four subs array posted here. ) is almost imposible to handled frequencies below 20hz at over 100dbs ( SPL. ) and with low THD kind of distortion."I didn’t design the Swarm ... | |
| Recommendatios? "Will take [jsautter’s] advice and get some local expert input on getting the room right before moving on."Kudos to you for going to an expert for advice on room acoustics!If you don’t find someone locally, may I suggest Jeff Hedback of Hedback De... | |
| Dual vs single sub @phusis wrote, about the distributed multi-sub approach: "... not drawing on the potential benefit of high-passing the mains (from ~80Hz or so on up to make the most of it."The distributed multi-sub approach has nothing to do with whether or not t... | |
| Recommendatios? "Large room (20 × 40 x 10). Audio at one end with speakers facing side wall."I’m envisioning speakers along the 40 foot wall but at one end of the room. So when you sit in the "sweet spot", it sounds to me like there’s a wall to one side, but a wh... | |
| Kii3 loudspeakers "Duke, I take it that you have heard the Dutch and Dutch 8c and you like what you hear. Are there any other stand mounts with dip and internal amps that you would care to comment on?"I've not heard the Dutch & Dutch 8c but based on my understa... |