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| Speakers positionning I use 45 degrees of toe-in regularly, with speakers that are designed for it. The speaker axes criss-cross in front of the sweet spot. Ime several advantage accrue, including a wider sweet spot, deeper soundstage, reduced coloration, and more con... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Just FYI, the Lone Star Audio Fest is in early May, and its location is less than half an hour from McKinney. Wayne Parham of Pi Speakers is a regular there. He's the founder of the show. I'm about twenty minutes east of McKinney in Princeton, ... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) @recluse wrote: “I for one would be very interested in Duke from AudioKinesis discussing soundstage in a large *and small* room.” Imo the main problem in small rooms, as far as soundstaging goes, is the quick arrival times for the reflections, es... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Thank you gene3x. I’m going to focus on big issues in this post; nothing against refinements, but imo the big issues need to be addressed first. So here is the big issue when it comes to trying to get a good soundstage across a wide listening ar... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Hi gene3x, I wasn’t going to post in this thread as I don’t have a clear-cut nomination for “best absolute value” in this price range. But at least four times now you’ve brought up a particular subject that is imo worth exploring on its own: "Okay... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? Peter Noerbaek (PBN)'s new flagship is a horn... and ime it’s an absolutely magnificent speaker. It uses the horn and compression driver from JBL’s M2 studio monitor, with TWO of the same woofers that the JBL uses. To the best of my knowledge this... | |
| Speakers for a very large room? Rich, you might give Eric Alexander of Tekton a call. He makes speakers that can fill a big room and sound very good doing so. I think he may have a demo pair of his big new Ulfberhts for sale. Duke | |
| Speaker Recommendation: 20K range Chandybe, thanks for the additional information. I totally understand preferring to go with a mainstream brand.High power handling in and of itself will not insure "zero chance" of speaker damage if you clip your 500 watt amp. Clipping sends a bur... | |
| Speaker Recommendation: 20K range @tomic601, good observation! With a small direct-selling company, in effect the manufacturer becomes the dealer. But I think having a local dealer would usually be preferable, all else being equal.Most of my work is in prosound. Agreed that 500... | |
| Speaker Recommendation: 20K range Dave and Troy raise some interesting questions:1: Is the size and look of the loudspeakers important?Few small speakers can fill a big room at high SPLs without significant thermal and/or mechanical compression. Briefly, having a fair amount of s... | |
| Just wave! Thank you once again Martin! I REALLY appreciate your taking the time to go through and explain this to me and correct my misunderstandings. Your example above of the 50 Hz line is extremely educational for me. I had failed to appreciate that a... | |
| End game speakers for Yamaha as2100 under 5k new or used "My ’room’ is a 1650 sq ft loft with really no walls and 22ft ceilings. Its not just a box, but mostly open."That is a very big room."Since I have so much air to move I may be leaning more to larger drivers?"Oh yeah. The good news is, prosound dri... | |
| Just wave! Thank you very much Martin for taking the time. Your last post makes sense to me.I was having a hard time with the second half of this sentence: "You cannot produce a half wave resonance and the output will never be in phase with the driver output... | |
| Just wave! Thank you for replying, Martin.Those measurements were made in the anechoic chamber at the Canadian NRC, so I don’t think the notches are floor-bounce cancellations.Both of the speakers in my links above are marketed as "transmission lines", and b... | |
| Just wave! @mjking57 - Thank you Martin, apparently I have some misconceptions. I hope you don’t mind if I ask a question or two.I recall many of my primitive transmission lines of yesteryear having a distinct notch in the response that seemed to correspond ... |