audiokinesis
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| Suggestions short 3' tall floorstander? If impact and dynamics are high on your list of priorities, imo high quality prosound drivers are a viable way to get there. Tyler Acoustics and Pi Speakers both have models that fall within your height and price range. Yours truly has done some s... | |
| Speaker advice redux? "A speaker is either able to resolve details better than another one or it's not, level isn't going to change that."That is true in many cases, and would probably be true in all cases if the spectral balance didn't change with volume level. But so... | |
| why no recent Merlin speaker reviews? I suppose there are two ways of looking at the relatively large number of new versions Bobby has come out with over the years. One viewpoint has already been expressed in this thread, and another would be that he continues to refine and improve on... | |
| Speakers with fullness and weight? Thanks for your kind words, Ngjockey and Mapman and Seikosha and Hesson11. Bob mentioned the Allison effect, which has to do with the impact of nearby room boundaries on the frequency response curve at lower frequencies, focusing on eliminating th... | |
| Speakers with fullness and weight? Amps + speakers + room form a "system within a system", of sorts. Boundary reinforcement can warm up otherwise thin-sounding speakers. Likewise a (low damping factor) tube amp can warm up otherwise thin-sounding speakers. Most speakers exhibit a p... | |
| Does this speaker exist? Musicfile wrote: "Duke you have some great speakers as well"Thank you very much, but I don't have anything that meets the "small footprint" requirement. I tend to use prosound drivers which inherently do some things well, but delivering good bass ... | |
| Does this speaker exist? I second the recommendation of Tonian Labs. Tony Minasian does excellent work. | |
| Help problem with Soundlab Dynastats Sounds to me like either the panels aren't getting charged up, or the signal from the amp is not reaching them, or both. My first guess would be that one or more of the wires going from the panels into the electronics is not pushed into its socket... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass "I will probably call for some expert opinion on the room acoustics in the coming days."May I recommend Jeff Hedback of Hedback Designed Acoustics. Jeff's day job mostly consists of designing recording studios, and his studios have been honored in... | |
| Room acoustics in a former church sanctuary? For sound reproduction in a large, richly reverberant space, you want speakers whose off-axis response is very good, because it is the off-axis resposne that will dominate the perceived tonal balance. There be more than one way to skin that cat, b... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass Sorry the boards-in-the-port didn't help.Equalization or a solid state amp are probably your least room-intrusive possibilities at this point. And nothing wrong with room treatment. Unfortunately I don't have any more inexpensive suggestions.It is... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass "I'm also not 100% sure I understand the way the wood boards have to be inserted into the bass port. Can you clarify? Does it matter which wood to use and what the thickness of the board should be?"Suppose the port is 150 mm tall by 200 mm wide by... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass "It would be very interesting to compare the "absorbing" product to the "mechanical grounding" method to hear which is more effective in minimizing/eliminating the bass boom."It's not necessarily either/or; neither excludes the other. Also, IF low... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass This is a long shot, so consider it just the ravings of an insomniac:It is possible that the enclosure is a transmission line/tuned port hybrid of sorts, and if so, you might be able to tighten up the bottom end a bit by lowering the tuning freque... | |
| Horning Eufrodites - help needed with boomy bass Using absorbent material in the ports isn't the ideal, but if the Eufrodites' way of working isn't working for you and your room, then imo it's reasonable to try to find a solution that is a worthwhile net improvement. I design speakers too, and m... |