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| small room big sound You might want to make contact with Tony Chipelo of Electra-Fidelity. He's in Las Vegas. Here's his website:http://www.electrafidelity.com/I've been friends with Tony for years. His dealership isn't very old but it comes with a lot of experience.Duke | |
| What speakers work best with electronic music? This is a job for... high quality waveguides or horns with high quality compression drivers, high quality prosound woofers, well designed crossovers, and possibly a distributed multisub system. Designed to be loafing along at 10% of its rated powe... | |
| Sub-woofer fast enough for Horns? The two primary researchers in the field of multiple subs are Todd Welti of Harmon International, and Earl Geddes of GedLee, LLC. Briefly, Welti investigated symmetrical configurations while Geddes advocates asymmetrical configurations. Todd Welti... | |
| Soundlab speakers...how reliable? I've been a SoundLab dealer since the late 90's and only know of one case of a failure involving a PX panel, and that was due to shipping damage - specifically, a forklift spearing the crate that the panel was in. There were two main sources of re... | |
| Sub-woofer fast enough for Horns? Something that isn't obvious at first glance is that we literally cannot hear bass in our home listening rooms without hearing the room. The ear cannot detect the presence of bass energy without hearing at least one full cycle. And it cannot detec... | |
| Sub-woofer fast enough for Horns? It is the shape of the in-room bass frequency response curve, rather than the "speed" of the woofer, that is primarily responsible for how "fast" the bass sounds.Lumpy bass = "slow" bass, as over-emphasis somewhere in the bass region gives the sub... | |
| Efficient Floorstander Hi Jwlaff,Some owner and listener comments on my speakers here:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=52153.0Another owner here:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=87553.0An interesting comment from a dealer and self-described horn hate... | |
| Best qualified surround speakers for home theater In my opinion the best type of speaker for use as home theater surrounds would be a line array or some variation on that theme. Here's why:You want the relative loudness of the left and right side surround speakers to be as uniform as possible for... | |
| Efficient Floorstander In order to work well in both small rooms and big rooms, here are some of the things that imo help:1. A well-controlled, uniform radiation pattern. The well-controlled part allows you to aim the pattern to avoid early sidewall reflections (which h... | |
| Speakers that do pianos really well I use the disc "Red Descending" by Seth Kaufman. I was fortunate enough to hear Seth live on many occasions back when we both lived in New Orleans, to the point where, when that disc first came out, I asked him it if was the same piano because it ... | |
| What the best 89-90 db speaker I can buy for 3k? Thanks for the mention, Richardyc! Basically my game plan is to start out with good prosound drivers and then thoroughly beat them into submission. The prosound part = good dynamics & good efficiency. The beating into submission part = smoothe... | |
| Speaker advice redux? My apologies to Margot also... sometimes the nerd in me takes over, and this time it ran rampant.Duke | |
| Speaker advice redux? Hi Bob,Good catch! I mis-used (and mis-spelled) the term "vicious cycle"; it only becomes such when a human enters the loop and keeps turning the volume control up higher and higher because he's not hearing the volume level increase as much as he ... | |
| Speaker advice redux? Vapor1, I don't think I've ever seen published Klippel data on thermal compression. An explanatory graph on Klippel's website implies that thermal compression in the neighborhood of 3-4 dB is normal:http://www.klippel.de/measurements/nonlinear-dis... | |
| Speaker advice redux? Sorry I wasn't clear, Bob! Let me try again.First a bit of background that I left out: Thermal compression is caused by the voice coil heating up which causes its resistance to rise (there are other bad things that happen as well, but this is the ... |