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| Admittedly a bit lost Badri wrote: "What kind of setup do you have, if you don't mind my asking?"My setup changes a lot because I'm a speaker designer. I have several different amps that I use, depending on what type of speaker I'm working on, and what I want to check.... | |
| Admittedly a bit lost Hi Badri,If you go for floor-standing speakers, you might consider getting Auralex isolation pads to put under them. The Auralex Gramma and ProPad and SubDude all do an excellent job of eliminating structure-borne vibrations, and will therefore in... | |
| Does such a speaker exist? Thank you very much, Martykl.I have Swarm customers who have found that their near-total placement flexibility makes the four small subs easier to accommodate into a living room than one or two larger subs, but that will of course depend on the sp... | |
| Does such a speaker exist? "Full range, with healthy output to the low 30's." When combined with the lack of dynamic compression and spaciousness requirements (the latter calls for positioning away from room boundaries), a fairly large box size is implied here. Since the ro... | |
| Shipping drivers to China Magnepan advertises "Made in USA, sold in China". So importation of speakers apparently is possible, if you go through the right channels.And maybe what they mean by "speakers" is the finished system, rather than the individual components. So mayb... | |
| Admittedly a bit lost For the low to moderate volume listening your apartment location dictates, that 40 watt JoLida will be sufficient with medium (honest 87 dB) efficiency speakers. I was a Jolida dealer for many years and imo you made an excellent first amplifier pu... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Hi Inna,I really don't think Michael Green's approach (room acoustic treatment that preserves beneficial reverberant energy) and mine (starting out with speakers that don't need to be "fixed" by room treatment) are mutually exclusive. Maybe we're ... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Hi Inna,We might not be talking about the same thing, I should have paid closer attention to your wording.What do you mean by "tuning" the speaker/room pair?And you're right, (acoustic) guitar would have been a better example. Thanks! | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Inna wrote, presumably referring to what I said about reverberant energy: "Yeah, 'if done right' is the key. The room should be précisely tuned too, in this case especially so, I assume."Actually speakers that generate spectrally-correct (or nearl... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP While I'm sure both speakers are excellent examples of their respective philosophies, imo in this case the Sonus Faber Aida starts out with a superior paradigm: Getting not only the direct sound, but ALSO the reverberant soound, right.The (adjusta... | |
| need help with subwoofer setup. crossover related Overlap can be dealt with via the phase control on the subwoofer amp.I recently set up a system where the mains had a muddy bottom end but we didn't have a suitably high-quality highpass filter to roll off their bottom end. So I overlapped with th... | |
| Any experience with TAD speakers ? @Lewinskih01,TAD's prosound division is pretty much a separate entity from their home audio division, and the latter doesn't sell drivers directly to the public.Andrew Jones of KEF went to work for the TAD home audio division and brought his conce... | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? "Next I'm going to throw my Braun L200s onto of my ADS810s and run them in parallel to get to 16 Ohms."As Almarg pointed out, series rather than parallel connection will give you a nominal 16-ohm load (assuming the Braun and ADS are both 8-ohm loa... | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? On average, I would guess that an active speaker outperforms a typical amp + passive speaker combination. But seldom does an active speaker include amplification at the same level as what a specialty amp manufacturer can deliver. Imo you're alread... | |
| In Memoriam: Bobby Palkovich of Merlin Music Sonist survived the passing of Randy Bankert, and Sonist had a considerably smaller following than Merlin does. Merlin has earned a lot of name recognition, credibility, and respect over a lot of years, and I would be surprised if no one takes adv... |