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| Using balance to compensate for speaker distance The ears localize sound sources by two mechanisms: Arrival time and intensity. If the arrival times of the two speakers are not simultaneous, good soundstaging can be maintained by correspondingly increasing the intensity (loudness) of the farther... | |
| Why not horns? Johnk, you're more than welcome to disagree with me. If we always agreed, one of us would be redundant!In my experience (which is of course limited), it simply isn't feasible to use a minimalist high-pass filter topology with a constant-directivit... | |
| Why not horns? Unsound, thank you for YOUR thoughtful response. I'll try to answer some of your questions:"Wouldn't such a controlled radiation pattern reduce the size of the sweet spot and reduce the sound-stage, especially for multiple listeners?"On the contra... | |
| Why not horns? Unsound wrote:"Macrojack, why would 'Horns have a greater potential than any other approach.'"?Well I'm not Macrojack, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night...Okay, my design experience is limited to systems that use a direct radiator woofer ... | |
| Feedback on Classic Audio Reproductions T-5 The Jazz Modules and Dream Makers will continue on after I have run out of TAD woofers, as I've found a suitable replacement. Classic Audio Reproductions was the company that opened my eyes to what a good horn-based system could do. It has been a ... | |
| Why not horns? Generalizations about horn systems tend to short-change models that are exceptions to the "rules", and in high-end audio it is the exceptions that are usually the most interesting. I started out with as strong a prejudice against horns as you'd ev... | |
| Recommended Speaker for Triode Amp Hi Kenny,The fullrange driver used in the wide stand-mount you see there probably has the best bass extension of any 8" fullrange made, and John uses a big enough cabinet to take advantage of that. He probably has several options that would meet y... | |
| Recommended Speaker for Triode Amp Magnificent high-efficiency custom and semi-custom designs, affordable heirloom-qualitiy works of art that make beautiful music:http://www.kcsloudspeakers.com/No commercial affiliation.Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Is my room doomed? Pic Perceptually, a sense of "envelopment" is heavily dependent on reflections coming from the sides. Since there are no sidewalls to speak of, these reflections would have to be synthesized and reproduced through small speakers (which need not begin ... | |
| Best setup for two subwoofers. Gozren, I tip my hat to you for wading through all that and finding something useful. We kinda went off on a tangent or three there. Very best of luck with your project... and if you get a chance to listen to the interview with Dr. Toole (episode ... | |
| Best setup for two subwoofers. Thank you very much for the link, Les creative edge. In the first half of the interview, I didn't hear anything on the subject of speakers, rooms, subwoofers, subwoofer placement, or psychoacoustics that I didn't already know. Not trying to be a s... | |
| Best setup for two subwoofers. If this is indeed Dr. Toole's position, then I disagree with him:"...the best choice if budget allows... is FOUR subs each in a corner.... They will provide the smoothest bass for the most listeners in room."I question whether that's really what h... | |
| Best setup for two subwoofers. Les creative edge, to the best of my knowledge none of the subwoofer studies published by Harmon researcher Todd Welti (presumably Toole's source) investigated asymmetrical placement, simply because that introduces too many variables. Another rese... | |
| Best setup for two subwoofers. In my opinion it is okay to use different subs. I'm also an advocate of asymmetrical placement, so that the two subs are interacting with the room modes differently. The result is each sub will give you a different peak-and-dip pattern at any give... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Pubul57, I'd rather go offline with that to avoid taking the thread on a commercial tangent; I'll shoot you an e-mail.Duke |