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| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? @phusis wrote: "The EV Constant Directivity horns (HP9040 + DH1A) on my EV main speakers, by virtue of not narrowing the HF response on-axis, should require equalization in its upper band above some 3kHz, at least for their intended cinema use, b... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? @larryi wrote: "I sort of think that 95-96 is at the low end of the range. My speakers are 99 db/w efficient, and friend calls that medium efficiency (his speakers are above 112 db/w efficient." Imo this is something to be aware of: Very often t... | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? @tannoy56 wrote: "What would you say are the attributes of low efficient speakers? Anyone?" Low efficiency speakers will give you deeper bass response for a given enclosure size, often dramatically so. The obvious implication of the above is, lo... | |
| Hyperacusis. Looking for recommendations @tiggerfc, thanks for providing so much relevant information. I’m always at least a little bit skeptical when a dealer suggests the speakers he sells, so I invite you to be more than a little bit skeptical of me. Before I was a dealer, I bought ... | |
| Wendell Diller: "You don't wanna put a subwoofer with a Magneplanar; it doesn't work." James M. Kates wrote an Audio Engineering Society paper many years ago (which I don’t have the reference for) showing the improved in-room bass smoothness of a dipole relative to a monopole. So if we want a subwoofer system which approximates the ... | |
| Speakers need to be placed close to back wall. Help Regarding the Jern cast-iron loudspeakers: The castings are what’s known as "grey iron" which is incredibly inert, they are probably the most inert material that loudspeaker enclosures have ever been made from (and one of the heaviest, so we’re n... | |
| Speakers need to be placed close to back wall. Help @rustler, I think that's a WONDERFUL gift!! Pardon me for muddying of the waters, you've probably already considered all of this, but just in case... If either of them have any interest in our hobby, OR if either if them are good candidates for ... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth @blisshifi , if we can trick the ear into accepting the spatial cues on the recording as being the more plausible "package" of cues, rather than the spatial cues inherent to the playback room, we can achieve that elusive "you are there" experience... | |
| Speaker positioning and center image depth @blisshifi, my impression is that soundstage depth can either be dominated by the room or by the recording, the latter being preferable but generally more difficult to accomplish. First looking at the room as the constraining factor: As a ballpar... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @jhills wrote: "... it seems a bit irrelevant unless you are listening at live concert SPLs (104 - 115+ db)." In my experience freedom from compression effects is audible at pretty much all volume levels, including low levels, which is where I n... | |
| Which pair of speakers changed your Hifi life? Sound Lab Millennium 1, a large full-range electrostatic. I bought the first pair in 1999, unseen and unheard, and they impressed me so much that I changed careers (taking a big pay cut) and became a high-end audio dealer. The first time I hea... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @deludedaudiophile wrote: "can you comment on room response of line arrays? "... I expect that electrostatic speakers and large planar speakers must be fairly immune to these power compression / thermal modulation effects within limits?" The ro... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @inscrutable wrote: "if the amplifier has a very large - let’s say infinite - current capability, so can maintain voltage to be applied as the speakers impedance changes with signal frequency changes …?" A constant-voltage amplifier will put out... | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @deludedaudiophile, to quote my favorite line from The Princess Bride, with poetic license invoked: "Speaker design is tradeoffs, Highness. Anyone who says differently is in marketing." Duke | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? @deludedaudiophile wrote: "I was more thinking smart people, i.e. like what I see with Kii, as a start, will figure out some way to compensate for these effects in real time." I think you are right, though there is a limit to how much compressio... |