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| 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:... | |
| Why not horns? Ralph wrote: "If you cannot get the [dipole] speaker far enough from the rear wall, the first comment [that dipoles create the required space and time of a recording more accurately than monopoles] is moot. Duke has built systems that are rear-fir... | |
| Room acoustics how ? My image is not centered I presume you've done this, but if you haven't, measure to make sure the speakers are both the exact same distance from the center of the sweet spot.If both side walls are quite reflective, then symmetry becomes more important. A strong early side... | |
| Is a good soundstage possible with 2 speakers only The acoustic and psychoacoustic principles behind Ambiophonics are perfectly valid. Back in college I did some experimenting along similar lines, and even invented a passive inter-aural crosstalk cancellation system, but it was wildly impractical ... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Just for the record, I'd like to point out that the amplifier only "sees" the impedance curve (magnitude, frequency, and phase) that a speaker system presents; it doesn't "see" the individual drivers or crossover parts separately. Therefore, it is... | |
| Do Acoustic Zen Adagios still live up to the Hype You can check the polarity of the woofers with a battery. Establish a connection between the + battery terminal and the + input on the speaker, and likewise between the - battery terminal and - input. Watch the woofer cones. They should snap forwa... | |
| Audiophile speakers that rock well As I see it, there's a tradeoff relationship between "monitor-sized" and "does Rock well". In order to have good bass, a small speaker has to trade off efficiency. That's not a problem; the problem comes when "rock the house" levels are demanded o... | |
| Why not horns? JohnK, I think it's great that an offset bipolar type might find its way into your lineup! I consider it an honor that you see enough potential to give it a shot. Let me know what Joe thinks if you get a chance. There's at least one other manufact... |