audiokinesis
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| Panel Sound Part of what sounds so nice with a good dipole speaker traces back to its dipole radiation pattern, and what it does right as far as the reverberant field when set up correctly.Let's start with a quick look at the sound fields in a good recital ha... | |
| Dybaudio Consquence Some years ago I read an AES paper on the subject of vertical imaging. They did experiments where different tones were played though a stack of small speakers hidden behind a curtain. The tone would be played through just one speaker, which the li... | |
| Speaker recommendations for new venture Imo multiple speakers done right might be a better solution, depending on what the OP is trying to accomplish. But done wrong, they would be a worse solution, from what little we know (a TV screen is sometimes involved). If multiple speakers are u... | |
| Budget $3000-3500 new or used The Genesis Model 500 is a tough act to follow under the best of circumstances, and for $3.5k it's really tough. My recollection is that it's poly-directional over most of the spectrum, with a rear-firing tweeter, dipole midrange, and then essenti... | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? "I think there is some heavy-duty "marketing" going on with Sjofn's specs. A standmounter with a 5.5" driver and a small-moderate sized cabinet is not going to do 28Hz on the bottom."The claimed low-end extension is dependent on the speakers being... | |
| Speaker recommendations for new venture The inverse square law (SPL falls off with the square of distance) applies only to the direct sound. In a room, there are two primary components of the sound field: The direct sound, and the reflected or reverberant sound. Unlike the direct sound,... | |
| Speaker recommendations for new venture I do a fair amount of work on the prosound side, in addition to my home audio designs. My speakers are used every weekend in live gigs all over the country. The key to high quality sound in a big room, like your 24 x 90 foot room, is speakers that... | |
| Monitors that compete with quality floorstanders?? The increased internal volume for a floorstander (assuming roughly the same footprint) gives it a significant advantage in bass extension and/or efficiency relative to a stand-mount. The standmount can be designed to take advantage of boundary rei... | |
| Best Subwoofer for Quad 2805 under $5k Ime when it comes to low bass, the elephant in the room is the room. No matter how flat the subwoofer starts out, the room will superimpose its effects. We can change the room-imposed peak-and-dip pattern by moving the sub and/or moving our listen... | |
| "Slam"--what is it, is it really accurate? During the recent "great recession", I spent most of my time over on the prosound side of things. Imo, there's a lot of validity to Mtrot's observation: "I'm beginning to think the ability of speakers to achieve that sense of dynamic "liveness" ma... | |
| Bolero:why can't my system reproduce snare well? Longshot here, but...High humidity can adversely affect the performance of an electrostat. In my experience there's an optimum bias setting for the voltage applied to the panel, and that optimum voltage may change with the ambient humidity. If the... | |
| Front Ported v. Rear Ported Speakers My first prototype speakers were front-ported, but I switched to rear-ported. Here's why:1) If unwanted midrange energy emerges from the ports, it will be farthest possible from the listener, and thus less likely to be audible.2) It is desirable t... | |
| Need Speakers to be Close to Wall $10k budget In my experience, omnis and other polydirectionals (such as bipoles and dipoles) that bounce a lot of energy off the wall behind the speakers do not work well up against the wall. Those reflections need a much longer time interval before they arri... | |
| Calling all Horn lovers Thanks, JohnK! You go too, my friend!!Jwm, I appreciate the suggestion. I'm actually not looking to expand my dealer network at this time, that may happen at some point, and I have requests from several dealers already if/when the time comes. Ralp... | |
| Calling all Horn lovers Thank you for the kind words, Mapman and Larryi and Atmasphere and Charles1dad and Clio09 and W3ux. I'll try to answer some of the questions that came up.Mapman wrote: "I'd be curious to know your opinion of how close your designs come [to the Cla... |