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| Your advice to speakers designers "So, what kind of questions should I ask a speaker designer to see if he has a good idea of crossovers and their implementation?"In my opinion there is no "secret handshake" by which a particularly good crossover designer can be picked out in a cr... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world "For some reason many electronics manufacturers use Wilsons for shows. Why is that?"If I was an electronics company, I would want to show with speakers that a) are going to sound good; b) are a well-known, well-respected industry benchmark and wil... | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 You know, I could probably get custom woofers with hemp cones... from that point, the jokes just write themselves..."The funniest demos are the ones with a big set up by the exhibitor. This is the state of the art blah blah blah with streaming bla... | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 "Pay them to keep their a$$es planted during the entire sound transformation."Ha! And if I paid them to, they might even buy something from me!! | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 "Have a locked room, with scheduled demonstrations."We can't do that AND be "visitor friendly"!! | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 Actually that hypothetical "reviewer sticks head in room when everything is adjusted to SUCK" scenario happened to a friend of mine. A long-time designer in prosound, he had just taken his first plunge into the high-end loudspeaker market with a ... | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 "No, no, no. You have to start with very wrong reflections and sound and then in steps demonstrate how it becomes better and better until it reaches the best possible."That would require an enormous amount of radiation pattern adjustability. Not ... | |
| "Innovations" rooms at RMAF 2017 Thank you very much ohlala. The speakers we'll be showing at RMAF are conceptually similar, but differ in details, and the system won't have the four small subs.Duke | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Thank you, willemj. The amp I supply with the Swarm has a single band of parametric EQ, but most people don't use it. The only time I've used it has been to extend the very bottom end a bit when all of the modules were in sealed-box mode, in a ... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Willemj wrote: "I have tried to imagine what is meant by fast or slow bass. It cannot be the speakers themselves for reasons that have been explained. My hypothesis is that what people are referring to is really the delay that is visible in waterf... | |
| The Most Realistic Speaker Technology? Transaudio wrote: "low distortion and wide dispersion (ie.consistent off axis) are top priorities, which eliminates horns, dipoles, electrostatic and good number of other technologies."I agree with you that low distortion and consistent off-axis ... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Soundrealaudio wrote: "[Woofers] must use very stiff suspensions to bring them back to neutral position after each excursion."The suspension system is not what brings the woofer's cone back to the neutral position. IT IS THE AMP!! As long as th... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters gkr7007 wrote: "...I gravitate toward planars and other very fast response speakers."Planars are subjectively "fast" because they have smoother in-room response than monopoles (even though the actual low-frequency transient response of their diaph... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters Skanda wrote: "Do sealed speakers integrate better into these rooms?"It’s ALWAYS a matter of speaker + room, and if the room is contributing a lot of boundary reinforcement, sealed boxes generally result in better synergy. If not, then vented boxe... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters "This is one reason I have a *pair* of Golden Ear Triton Reference. Each one on its own eliminates the need for a sub, let alone the two of them combined." - gdhalYup, when it comes to using multiple bass sources in the pursuit of in-room smoothne... |