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| Audition Your Speakers Online!? Imo the Crutchfield system does some things really well and some things not so well. The differences you hear between one speaker and another on their site are pretty small. There's a reason for that, which I'll keep to myself for now because I ... | |
| Speaker Bass Port Bungs If they are round ports, you might google "expandable test plug". It's a plumbing part. That's what I use. Duke | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? noble100 wrote: " Duke somehow compensates for this so that the in-room bass response is flatter and more accurate but I'm not certain of exactly how he does this."According to Martin Colloms and several others, "typical" room gain is about 3 dB ... | |
| Easy to drive, outstandingly natural sound from 40-50 Hz up.....AN-E, O/96, others? Thank you both! Is it okay if I publicly agree with your opinions???Cheers,Duke | |
| Easy to drive, outstandingly natural sound from 40-50 Hz up.....AN-E, O/96, others? Thank you very much, Ralph and exlibris.I don't really have any speakers that meet mitch2's requirements. My "fullrange" speakers go deeper than 40-50 Hz, and my "made to be used with subs" speakers cut off higher than that, in anticipation of th... | |
| Speaker With Least Room Interaction Amp + speakers + room = a "system within a system". Imo they should all work well together. The speakers are "in the middle" in this paradigm, so they need to work well with the amp (usually not too difficult) and also with the room (often quite d... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? "Getting that done WELL, but with subs, IMHO is for experts."Then there must be a lot of experts out there, because an awful lot of people have done it.And somewhat counter-intuitively, the more subs the easier it is, because the location of any o... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations "Everything HiFi is a compromise."Amen brother!!And I agree with you that 105 Hz is usually too high for something like a Swarm. I try to avoid letting the subs run up any higher than 80 Hz for exactly the reason you describe.There is a technique... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? "Xilica XP-3060 digital XO... isn't detrimental in regards to transparency"Thanks for posting this, as I like to have options. Looks like it's between two and three times the price of the subwoofer amp that I use, but that would be okay in some s... | |
| Tight bass sub recommendations ieales wrote: "Some liked the Bose 901 spread. Others thought it appalling."I assume you are implying that a distributed multisub system is analogous to a Bose 901.It is not.The reason is, the way the ear/brain system perceives room reflections at... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? Jnorris2005 wrote: "One thing to be aware of is that the sub will not add clarity to the main speakers unless the sub or the preamp provides a high pass filter to them, blocking out the bass that is now to be handled by the sub. Otherwise you're... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? "To OPTIMALLY separate the (low bass) subwoofer passband from the (mid-bass) main woofer passband, it’s necessary to use a full 4th order (24dB/octave) active Linkwitz-Riley crossover."How do you know? Are you taking into account the rolloff inher... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? Vtvmtodvm wrote: "The "distributed array" concept is worthy with one notable exception: It generally (?) recommends leaving the main speakers Unfiltered."Whether or not filtering the main speakers is desirable depends on the specifics of the situa... | |
| Looking for speakers with soundstage depth Shadys wrote: "I have a pair of magnepan mg12s that do a great job at image depth provided I get them out into the room, say 3+ feet from the wall. With good recordings the image depth often appears to go beyond the front wall."YESSS!!!That is e... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? Millercarbon wrote: "Hard to overstate how disappointed I am that so few people are interested."The following is just my guess:One of the things that is an awful lot of fun about high-end audio is, pride of ownership in a piece of equipment that h... |