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| Sourcing Supervox Drivers The North American importer is in Quebec, but I bet they can find someone to speak English with you.http://www.supravox.fr/anglais/contact.htm ; scroll down about halfwayDuke | |
| Tyler Acoustics my experience Ty's line of Pro Dynamics speakers appears very well thought out. In particular, his MHM format gets a big thumbs-up from me. As for his use of prosound drivers, well that's what I use and in my experience they are more challenging from a crossove... | |
| Match for Naim UnitQute under $3,000 Higher efficiency than the PRoac D28 without trading off low-end extension will inevitably call for a bigger box... that's just the way the laws of physics shake out (enthusiastic marketing departments notwithstanding). Often a floorstander takes ... | |
| Any high WAF speaker with ATC sound? One possibility is this: You could buy a pair of SCM-100s in plain-Jane prosound cabinets, and have a woodworker build replacement custom cabinets that look the way you want. Duke | |
| Question on small bass drivers in tower speakers "Is it more difficult for an amp to drive,say, two 6.5" woofers than one 8" ?"Two 6.5" woofers might be easier to drive than a single 8", or they might not, but it would have very little to do with the cone diameters. What does the impedance look ... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? I can discuss technical issues but am not very good at emotional exchanges, so I will bow out.Duke | |
| What subwoofers keep up with Quad ESL 57 ? Hi Bob,I don't recall how wide a "critical band" is in the bass region, sorry. My impression is that it's less than 1/3 octave wide. For those who wonder what I'm talking about, the ear/brain system "averages out" narrow-band peaks and dips across... | |
| What subwoofers keep up with Quad ESL 57 ? The room is the dominant factor at bass frequencies. Not to say that different subs don't sound different, but the peak-and-dip pattern imposed by the room is quite audible, as is the progressive boundary reinforcement ("room gain") at low frequen... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "...there's nothing important enough about audio to make someone angry--it's a hobby."Very well said, Larry.I think if people met in the hallway at an audio show, instead of on this internet forum / virtual battlefield, they'd instantly become fri... | |
| Benefits of a cardioid subwoofer? "...What am I missing?"The time delay on the rear woofer corresponds to the time it takes for the output of the front woofer to wrap around the cabinet and reach the rear woofer. So the reversed-polarity rear woofer "fires" just as the output from... | |
| Best subwoofer under $1,500 for Magnepan 3.6R In an AES paper published some years ago, researcher James M. Kates showed that a dipole has smoother in-room bass than a monopole. Two dipole main speakers will have significantly smoother in-room bass than a single monopole sub, which can be fru... | |
| Lone Star Audio Festival - Dallas 2011 Thank you very much, Uriah. One of Uriah's preamps will be in my room (I'm not sure he knew that until now; I think I forgot to tell him I'd be using it). The preamp he loaned me last year played a major role in any good sounds we had going on in ... | |
| Speakers for a large vaulted room? "So, even a more efficient speaker in terms of power needed wouldn't help me? What can I do?"A more efficient speaker will indeed help you; the PSB Synchrony One is not a more efficienct speaker, or at least not significantly so. The Synchrony One... | |
| Benefits of a cardioid subwoofer? Martykl, I believe that the rear-firing woofer's output is time-delayed in order to obtain the cardioid pattern.Speaking from theory rather than experience here, I would think that the benefits of a cardioid pattern at bass frequencies are rather ... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? Thanks for letting me know, Learsfool; I don't know how it got garbled so I don't know how to keep it from happening again. Suggest you google "Lone Star Audio Fest", or type in "www.lonestaraudiofest.com". Duke |