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| Budget Strategies forTightening up Bass? Plugging the ports will reduce the excursion-limited power handling above and around the tuning frequency, and increase it below (where it falls rapidly with a vented design). You're not pushing them with a big amp to begin with so I think you wou... | |
| Budget Strategies forTightening up Bass? I'm not familiar with the Silverline 17.5. If it uses a ported box, you might try lowering the tuning frequency by lengthening the port and/or reducing its cross-sectional area. Or tightly stuff open-cell foam into it, transforming the system into... | |
| what speakers demand high end electronics If a loudspeaker has a benign impedance curve, it will usually sound pretty good with modest electronics provided the efficiency isn't extremely low or extremely high. The latter proviso is somewhat counter-intuitive, but often very high efficienc... | |
| Can room acoustics amplify the sound of speakers? Timhru,The Vandersteen's tweeter crosses over a little lower than the Soliloquy's, and does so with a more gentle slope. The Vantersteen's tweeter is a bit smaller in diameter than the Soliloquy's (1.0" vs 1.125"), and the Vandersteen's midwoofer ... | |
| Can room acoustics amplify the sound of speakers? It is possible that the colorations you hear at high levels are actually present at lower levels, but are below the detection threshold. In a small room, you inevitably have lots of early-onset reflections, and in general early-onset reflections a... | |
| Monitor speakers for Ayon Triton Once you set a size limit on speakers, you'll be trading off bass extension vs efficiency. If you want something significantly more efficient without giving up bass extension, you'll need speakers with a significantly bigger enclosure. Dukedealer/... | |
| Flawed? Wilson's Aspherical Propagation Delay Designing decent user-adjustable crossovers would be a lot more complex than it sounds. Adjusting the array to restore the correct speakers-to-listener geometry makes a lot more sense to me.The dowsides are greater diffraction, as Shadorne noted, ... | |
| Line Array Speaker vs Point Source Speaker Hce4, comb filtering in the vertical plane is dealt with by having the inter-driver spacing small in relation to the wavelengths produced, and/or using drivers that inherently have limited vertical dispersion anyway and therefore little or no over... | |
| Line Array Speaker vs Point Source Speaker "Is there any inherent advantage to either of these speaker designs [Line array or point source]?" - Mitch4tThe main difference is that output from a line source or line array will fall off at 3 dB for every doubling of distance, instead of 6 dB f... | |
| Flawed? Wilson's Aspherical Propagation Delay If the wavelengths at the crossover frequency are long relative to the adjustments that are made, the effect on system phase response will be negligible. Also, the adjustments may well be restoring ideal geometry for listening positions that are n... | |
| Can these speakers handle Neil Young's Le Noise? Agree with the Classic Audio Reproductions speakers, but not as a particularly good match for the JC-1s unfortunately (I'm somewhat familiar with both, and with speaker/amplifier matching issues).Faugello62, assuming you don't want to change ampli... | |
| subwoofer for Maggie 20.1 The biggest hurdle to good in-room bass is the room itself. The biggest thing the room does is impose a significant peak-and-dip pattern on the output of a sub due to how that sub interacts with the room modes. You can change the peak-and-dip patt... | |
| high pass filter "Impedance varies greatly near resonance and is affected by enclosure loading. The rated 'nominal' impedance is estimated at 1Kohms but, in the bass, the difference can be huge." -Kr4The impedance peak(s) at system resonance will cause a simple se... | |
| what type of subwoofer is good for ribbons Subwoofer design that integrates well with Maggies and Quads and such is something that I've been interested in for a long time. Briefly, after building a very wide variety of prototypes in search of a subjectively "fast enough" sub, I learned fro... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems "Duke, we have all read that bass is omni-directional, and yet very often it's very easy hear where the sub-woofer is (perhaps it's because the overtones appear to come elsewhere?)." - Unsound"Bass localization is detectable indoors" - WeseixasHea... |