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| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? What generates rich timbre out in the real world?Well, what makes your voice sound richer in the shower? What makes a grand piano’s timbre and texture so rich and lush in a good recital hall? And what makes the difference between a good seat and a... | |
| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers I started designing and building my own speakers back in 1979. I LOVE to be creative, to try something that hasn’t quite been done before, in hopes of pushing a boundary here or there. It was not until 2005 that I "turned pro".For the small direct... | |
| Anyone Else Using an Audio Kinesis Swarm or Debra Distributed Bass Array System? Magzxi posted: "Thanks for the help! I’ve read the thread over again quickly and don’t see the difference between SWARM and DEBRA."The Swarm is Duke’s design, square footprint. The DEBRA is Jim Romeyn’s variation on the theme, with a rectangular f... | |
| Anyone Else Using an Audio Kinesis Swarm or Debra Distributed Bass Array System? Hi Tim,Thank you very much for your enthusiasm and expertise about distributed multi-sub systems.I would however like to take issue with one thing you said:"The Swarm is retailed by AK founder and owner, Dick Lejeune who I believe passed away in 2... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers "There's a lack of choice in the omni and coaxial schools of speaker design right now. You know the types of speakers which can address a large sweet spot."Very interesting. Thanks for the nudge in that general direction.Duke | |
| Your advice to speakers designers Ralph makes an excellent point in suggesting the amp/speaker interaction be given high priority by speaker designers, and in particular I echo his vote for fairly high impedances and benign curves. Likewise imo the speaker/room interaction deserv... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers "With some designs I see a wall of drivers and with others just two or three. What do they try to accomplish with so many drivers?" See what the designer has to say! I'm sure he has something specific in mind."I always thought that one driver is ... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers "I am always suspicious of speakers with multiple drivers."Can you explain what you mean by this?"Would you say that three is enough even if the room is big and you sometimes play loudly?"I’m not really inclined to single out the number of drivers... | |
| 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 ... |