audiokinesis
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| Planar Speakers and Diffusors @ozzy, I like your approach of diffusing rather than absorbing the backwave. Ime the backwave energy of a good full-range dipole can be very beneficial, but you want to preserve its spectral content rather than degrading it by using absorption, wh... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume @ilikeclassical , thank you for posting your room's dimensions. This past Sunday I attended the SouthWest Audio Fest in Dallas with my wife, and she and I agreed on what our second-favorite room was. Surprisingly it was actually one of the SMALL... | |
| Subwoofer - is there one that would work in this situation? A Norwegian company called Sigberg Audio makes a very high quality and very slim subwoofer called the "Inkognito" which is designed to fit behind or underneath furniture, and would probably work great on a shelf below a TV. No affiliation. Duke | |
| You don't lack bass, you have too much treble @erik_squires, Omigosh yes, what a brilliant-in-concept and magnificent-in-execution speaker the Type A/III was! In 1988 or thereabouts I submitted a DIY construction article to SpeakerBuilder Magazine that was essentially a variation on the Type ... | |
| You don't lack bass, you have too much treble Another side of the same coin: If your system is well-balanced and you add subwoofers thereby extending the response an octave or more on the low end, the net result may no longer sound balanced. In this case, it can make sense to flex your DIY ... | |
| directional speakers @erik_squires, when the day comes that it's MY bad memory in the spotlight, I hope to remember your example and be half as gracious as you. Mad respect. Duke | |
| directional speakers Regarding the radiation pattern of ATC speakers which use that big 3" dome midrange on a shallow waveguide - As a general ballpark rule of thumb, a horn or waveguide starts to lose directional control below the frequency where its dimension in a ... | |
| Titanium Voice Coils - where to get best price? I agree with @erik_squires, that you’re unlikely to find an off-the shelf replacement for your woofer that is functionally identical except for the voice coil former. I think you’re also unlikely to find a recone kit for your woofer that has a ti... | |
| directional speakers @treepmeyer, in my experience interaural crosstalk cancellation works; it significantly expands the soundstage in width and depth, and enhances the sense of being within the acoustic space on the recording. I owned an electronic interaural crosst... | |
| directional speakers It looks like there is a divergence of opinion about how wide the speaker’s radiation pattern should be. Given that the BACCH-SP system is using the spatial information already on the recording to present an exceptionally wide soundstage, rather ... | |
| directional speakers @treepmeyer posted, quoting from Theoretica’s website: "An ongoing investigation of speaker directivity at Princeton University’s 3D3A Lab, has shown that dipole speaker designs, electrostatic speakers, as well as speakers with horns and wavegui... | |
| directional speakers @treepmeyer, did Theoretica give you any specific recommendations or general guidelines? Did they tell you why they recommend speakers that are "more rather than less directional"? My guess is that they want to minimize early lateral reflections, ... | |
| Titanium Voice Coils - where to get best price? @btlancaster24, no I don't. I use either off-the-shelf drivers or factory-made custom drivers; I've never sourced my own voice coil formers. There is a publication called "The Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook" that lists sources for loudspeaker ... | |
| Titanium Voice Coils - where to get best price? @tsacremento, I think @btlancaster24 means Titanium voice coil formers. | |
| Free air, tighter bass - snake oil or cheap tweaks? @erik_squires, I like both of your ideas. Many years ago there was a company called Audio Concepts who sold to the DIY speaker builder market. They competed with Madisound and Parts Express and Meniscus. Anyway one of their kits was a medium-size... |