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| Anything like an Altec Model 19 The Model 14 is a better approximation of the Model 19's voicing and presentation than is the A7, in my opinion.PiSpeakers are excellent, and I consider Wayne Parham to be one of my teachers. The reason for the per-speaker pricing is that a lot of... | |
| Heaven or Hell The Stereo Gods giveth... and the Stereo Gods taketh away.They are giving you as sign. They are telling you to visit the nearest high priest - your local dealer - and make a suitable offering, in the form of an expensive purchase. Do this, you wil... | |
| Klipsch lascala subwoofer? The cabinet design of the LaScala does not provide horn loading down into the subwoofer region; it is much too small to be effective at those wavelengths. Instead, the cabinet would act like a very small sealed box, of whatever internal volume is ... | |
| Speakers with wide listening window Audioconnection wrote:"...the only way to get a wide listening window is to use a speaker that is so defuse that it can't possibly have a "sweet spot". The higher resolution and more transparent a speaker the smaller and sweeter the sweet spot. It... | |
| Speakers with wide listening window The "listening window" has two aspects: Tonal balance, and imaging. In order to get good tonal balance across a wide area, you want a speaker whose off-axis response is very similar to its on-axis response. This also pays dividends in naturalness ... | |
| Speaker with most dynamic PUNCH? "Do "pro" speakers and studio monitors tend to have more punch than those made for the domestic market?"In general yes, but it depends on what you mean by "studio monitor". If you mean a 5" two-way, well the prosound versions are not necessarily m... | |
| Tube amps known to have a low damping factor? Higher damping factors are not a free lunch; something has to be traded off to get there, and that something is the ear-friendly distortion behavior of a low (or zero) global negative feedback amp. Most SET and OTL amps have a low damping factor, ... | |
| Speaker with most dynamic PUNCH? Lack of dynamic punch sounds like power compression to me; for example, the signal going into the speaker calls for a 10 dB peak, and your speaker only delivers an 8 dB peak. As a result, the liveliness and emotion and impact are sucked out of the... | |
| 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... |