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| Horns: Why don't they image well? The best imaging I have ever heard from a well-off-centerline listening location was with the fully horn loaded ESD speakers at RMAF last weekend. Very narrow-pattern horns (even the bass was horn loaded). The center image was extremely solid an... | |
| Green Mountain Audio Chroma HX "I just upgraded from the chroma 2 to the HX version of the GMA RIO . The results were amazing!! much better cohesion across the frequency spectrum . The detail was also improved. I have owned many highly rated speakers and none of them come close... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @phusis wrote (in a reply to me):"my main gripe comes with questioning the usefulness, in some instances at least, of knowing about minutiae design "tech details" and how these are convertible into or relate to actual perceived sound. The designer... | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? @rauliruegas , I agree with you 100%! In audio always exist trade-offs!Duke | |
| Bookshelf + sub vs. floorstanding @gdnrbob said: "I think the Vandy subs will be a better integration than the HSU's- which are running parallel to the speakers, so there is some overlap, which I think muddies the sound."If you have a phase control on the Hsu's, you may be able t... | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? @rauliruegas wrote: "In my case was a : " win to win ".That's GREAT!Using a very-high-quality cap in series with the amp's input as a high-pass filter is probably the most transparent highpass filter format.The theoretically possible downside is,... | |
| SPEAKERS, SPEAKERS AND MORE SPEAKERS.. BUT NEED BASS.? @rauliruegas said, "I just can’t imagine any situation in a passive design speakers where subs can’t help to lower speakers IMD that comes with additional benefits as lowering the speakers THD and gives the amps to works way better when are libera... | |
| Bookshelf + sub vs. floorstanding In my opinion the "bookshelf + sub" format arguably has greater potential because of the greater low-end extension/output/flexibility that you get with separate subs. But the specifics matter - most "bookshelf" speakers are designed to have accep... | |
| What you can say about lowbass and midbass perfomance for high end loudspeakers ? @bache wrote: "I agree,, except one thing, like i say before, To get low bass like 30 -40 Hz using Omega Pro 15" woofer you need box very big 5-6 Cubic Feet . You can listen nice bass with smaller enclosure , but never get really low bass."Very tr... | |
| What you can say about lowbass and midbass perfomance for high end loudspeakers ? @bache wrote:"Actually more important the cone moving mass , in pro line the using big size cone like Eminence Omega Pro 15A 15" driver with 94 gram."The Omega Pro 15A is an excellent woofer, and as you point out its moving mass is not very high. ... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? I was in the room next to Volti for several years at RMAF, where Greg was showing the Vittoras. Magnificent speakers. Being a competitor I really wanted to hear "something wrong": with them, and utterly failed. Kudos to Greg Roberts for his spea... | |
| Down side of speaker swop from AZ to Tonian Labs ? I mean absolutely no disrespect to Acoustic Zen, but imo Tony Minasian is a wizard. I honestly do not know how he gets the results he does. Every speaker of his that I have heard sounded rich and warm and lively and totally non-fatiguing, and it d... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @phusis wrote: " but in any event I find singling out particular horn geometries as "the best" to be more of a marketing ploy to boost business than a marker of the diversity of great sounding horns out there."My statement about the Oblate Sphero... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @gawdbless and @d2girls, you might also want to check out Room 542, where Peter Noerbaek (of PBN) will be showing his M2!5’s... same horn and compression driver as the JBL M2, but TWO of the M2’s woofers, if I understand correctly. My guess is tha... | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers One of the things that is usually impractical to evaluate if you have limited time is, whether or not a speaker will remain relaxing and non-fatiguing over the long run. I’d like to suggest a way to check for this relatively quickly. Assuming a sp... |