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| 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 | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? In three weeks the Lone Star Audio Fest is happening in Dallas, Texas. Here's a link:http://lonestaraudiofest.com/What this has to do with horns is, historically a disproportionate number of rooms at LSAF exhibit horn designs. We also have direct ... | |
| New Salk Loudspeaker- Soundscape JR "...for Jeffs passive radiator system is the only one that distributes bass evenly."Could you elaborate?Thanks,Duke dealer/manufacturer/thinks highly of Salk speakers | |
| Likely culprit for harshness at higher volumes? It's possible that your speakers have a distortion which is present but below the detection threashold at lower levels, and then as you go up to high levels, the distortion becomes louder than the decection threshold. In other words, your ears may... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Seriously, I've GOT to hear some horns, just to revisit...Duke, if you ever want to have a Beta Test Site...send me a pair...I'll write a Harry Pearson quality, prosaic piece and be honest to a fault."Thanks for your offer, Larry. Shipping costs ... | |
| NSMT Speakers? "We make the best loudspeakers". Says so right there on the page.The Chorus has a sensitivity of 96 dB, bass extension to 35 Hz, and an internal volume of about 1/2 cubic feet. The gap between a truly high-end company like NSMT, who makes the best... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "Duke's speaker is not an Horn .... Waveguide !!!!!!!"A waveguide is a type of horn, characterized by constant directivity, minimum-wavefront-disturbance curvatures, and a lack of vanes or diffractive shapes or features to modify directivity. Some... | |
| small companies making today's best products I have learned that getting involved in custom work is a good way to waste a lot of time. No one who has come to me with their own custom design in mind has ever gone through with placing an order after many hours of research and modelling and rev... |