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| Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor-Standing Speakers Set-Up Glad you found it! Duke | |
| Why not horns? Thanks, Macrojack. Since posting the link, I have "met" one of that paper's authors in another online forum (he and I are disagreeing about something... surprise surprise!).I don't have any experience with either the K-2 or Everest, but I'm sure t... | |
| Why not horns? Learsfool, I don't have first-hand experience with the A7, but it seems to me that there might be a step-down in response below the frequency were the short horn in front of the woofer un-loads, such that in the bass region the response might norm... | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor-Standing Speakers Set-Up Five rooms and no bass. Hmmm.When you stand with your back up against the wall, do you get bass then? If so, move your chair and/or move your speakers so that you get sufficient boundary reinforcement.If you don't get bass even up against the wall... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, can you borrow a sub? Perferably one with a phase reversal switch. It can be a small sub that doesn't go very deep. Try it along the wall behind the speakers, with the phase reversed. I'm hoping that its response will "zig" where your main s... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, the reason I asked about what speakers you have is to see whether the port tuning could be changed (lowered) which would allow a small subwoofer to be added, preferably along the rear wall or in a rear corner. Duke | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, can you tell me what your main speakers are? That might help me come up with suggestions.One possibility is to rotate the speaker-listener-speaker triangle perhaps 15 or 20 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise, as seen from above. This wil... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Plato, the equal loudness curves illustrate that the ear itself is not "flat"; I wouldn't consider them to be any sort of "target curve" for loudspeaker frequency response, but they do show where a designer needs to be careful; in my opinion you c... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Putting my designer's hat on, bass is largely a matter of juggling tradeoffs. It's not that difficult to get good bass if you start out with a big enough box. If box size is severely constrained, we must make some hard choices between bass extensi... | |
| Bring on the criticism... Hmmm. interesting.The tonal balance probably becomes a bit warmer, as each side's output will combine in-phase at low frequencies, while as Shadorne noted you will get comb-filtering (partial cancellation) at higher frequencies.Comb filtering ofte... | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. In broad terms the purpose of home audio reproduction is to recreate, as closely as reasonably possible, the perception of hearing a live performance. So-called "accuracy" that does not serve this goal is either irrelevant or incomplete. Dukedeale... | |
| Why not horns? Weseixas asked how Bills Woods' horns would compare with Avantgarde type horns. For one thing, Bill's horns are constant-directivity devices, so the off-axis energy will have nearly the same spectral balance as the on-axis energy. According to Flo... | |
| Why not horns? Weseixas: "Which maggies are we discussing?"Duke: I probably should have picked one model and stuck to it, which I didn't do. Weseixas: "A speaker shoot out would be interesting!"Duke: If a "shoot-out" could be arranged that was satisfactory to bo... | |
| Why not horns? Weseixas, the reason few dipoles maintain their figure-8 up into the mid and treble region has to do with beaming and/or driver interference. For example, the horizontal pattern of Maggies changes due to horizontal comb filtering in the crossover ... | |
| Why not horns? Weseixas wrote: "I'm sure you are not comparing your bi-polar speaker polar plot to that of a Di-pole with it's figure 8 pattern ?.... I highly doubt the 2 will sound the same, the sonic characteristics are so completely different..."Duke replies:... |