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| I'm selling speakers for the first time and concerned about fraud Maybe the buyer knows someone who he could use as a reference? One of my relatives was a first-time seller here a few months ago, the buyer was a bit nervous, so the seller used me as a reference and after the buyer and I spoke he was no longer n... | |
| Sealed subwoofer for ESL-63 Let me offer some clarification to my earlier post.My statement that a dipole has smoother in-room bass is based on a paper written by James M. Kates and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society in 2002. It takes the ear a long ti... | |
| Sealed subwoofer for ESL-63 Dipoles have smoother in-room bass than monopoles. In general, it takes two monopole sources (intelligently positioned) to approximate the in-room bass smoothness of one dipole source. And it would take four monopole sources to approximate the in-... | |
| Time for Two Ways ! Imo speaker design is always system design, wherein the room and even the amplifier are parts of the system.I've done two-way speakers that have good in-room response from the mid-20's up to 18 kHz or so, but these were not polite little mini-moni... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? The specific type of distortion likely to occur in a small but high-quality two-way loudspeaker driven hard is due to the woofer being driven beyond its linear excursion limits. Over-excursion results in what's commonly called "fartout" in the pr... | |
| Small room electrostat/ planar speaker? The 5 foot from the wall recommendation you see for dipoles and bipoles (like the little Audience speakers) is because reflections arriving within 10 milliseconds of the first-arrival sound tend to be detrimental, and sound travels slightly over o... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Given that you are in Europe, I suggest Gradient and Amphion. Both are imo extremely intelligently designed as far as room interaction... in particular, both do an unusually good job with the off-axis response. The vertical off-axis response mat... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Celo, good for you, for fully including your wife in the process! My suggestion is, don't be in a hurry - ENJOY the quest together! I can't begin to predict what speakers lie within the intersection of what you like and what she likes. If the v... | |
| Speaker suggestions for an unusual room Imo the Cornscalas are in the right ballpark for this type of room.Ime for difficult or unusual rooms, you want speakers where the radiation pattern is not too wide - say 90 degrees over most of the spectrum - and where the off-axis response track... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! Erik, I hope you don’t mind some feedback.While I’ve participated here a bit, I felt pressured to choose my topics and my wording carefully. My impression is that the majority of what I could theoretically contribute on the subject of tweeters and... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! Eric, I understand your desire to focus on tweeters and not speaker brands, but realistically how is prof supposed to talk about omnidirectional tweeters and not mention MBL? Frankly I cannot think of any omnidirectional or quasi-omnidirectional t... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 Thank you for your kind words, imdoc! I enjoyed talking with you very much. One thing I forgot to mention - you’ll probably have to EQ in a fair amount of low-end boost in your room. I suspect that the big opening behind the listening area is acti... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 Thank you very much, Tim! Glad the Debra is working well for you! The only question mark in my mind regarding imdoc’s situation is, whether his room has something going on (large area and/or open floorplan perhaps?) that results in minimal boundar... | |
| Others experience re: subs and Magmepan 20 I designed the Swarm subwoofer system mentioned above, and worked with Jim Romeyn on his conceptually-similar Distributed Bass Array system.The Swarm was originally designed with dipole speakers in mind, specifically Maggies and Quads. Briefly, di... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! Getting back to tweeters, I don't have a lot of experience with a lot of different current-generation domes and ribbon(-ish) drivers, but I've tried a fair number of different compression drivers and many different diaphragm types. My preferences... |