audiokinesis
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| more adjectives to help define 'fatigue' vectors? "Can a non-fatiguing system be deployed in a brighter-than-ideal room and have it remain not-fatiguing?"The short answer is, "yes". But that's not very interesting, so you're going to get the long answer too. Let's look at a couple of causes of fa... | |
| Modernists Unite, or: saying no to room treatment Audiokinesis wrote:My opinion is that a speaker should sound just fine in a fairly reverberant [environment] - just like the acoustic instruments it's supposed to be reproducing.To which Kr4 replied:I firmly disagree. The recording of the performa... | |
| Subwoofer guys - House curve or flat? In my opinion what you want is flattest possible in-room bass without causing problems. How you get there depends on the sub's inherent response and the room acoustic situation. Note that once boundary reinforcement and modal effects are factored ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Kirkus wrote:"The problem with increasing the amplifier source impedance for this type of driver [prosound woofer] (especially in a domestic application) is that while this raises the Q and the bass output, it leaves the resonant frequency unaffec... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states My understanding is that a woofer's electrical damping is described by the electrical Q (Qes) and the mechanical damping is described by the mechanical Q (Qms). The Qes value given in a spec sheet assumes a true voltage source amplifier, and in pr... | |
| Modernists Unite, or: saying no to room treatment Correcting a typo; that first sentence should read:"My opinion is that a speaker should sound just fine in a fairly reverberant environment..." | |
| Modernists Unite, or: saying no to room treatment My opinion is that a speaker should sound just fine in a fairly reverberant - just like the acoustic instruments it's supposed to be reproducing. And the key to doing so lies off-axis, not on-axis. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Most Musical Subwoofers? The difference between high quality subwoofer systems pales in comparision to what the room does to their outputs. In the bass region, the elephant in the room IS the room. Some have advocated using two subs, and I would join with them. Preferably... | |
| How to tame brightness Well maybe I'm like the guy whose only tool is a hammer, so to him every problem looks like a nail...I tend to see loudspeaker radiation pattern issues behind this sort of problem. Briefly, in this case the tweeter has a very wide pattern in the c... | |
| Large Object Between Mini Monitors on Stands... In my experience large objects between the speakers tend to degrade imaging (particularly depth) and clarity a bit. Whether or not that's a deal-breaker is your call. I could live with it if the choice was that vs no music. | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Unsound, amplifier/speaker synergy can definitely be used to advantage. This is how it's done with a high output impedance amp: The speaker designer uses impedance peaks to get the amp to deliver more power where he wants it. We almost always see ... | |
| what ohms would I have? That crossover is not designed to be used with drivers rated for something other than 8 ohms. If you wired the woofers in series that would at least be 8 ohms, but the midrange being 4 ohms is too far off. Generic crossovers are usually a roll of ... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Atmasphere wrote: "What tubes bring to the table is the ability to build a low-distortion amplifier without loop feedback. With no loop feedback, time-domain distortions are 100% eliminated. With feedback, time-domain distortions become the name o... | |
| SUNFIRE vs COUNTERPOINT I was fortunate enough to pick up a 5.1 as a trade-in many years ago. I almost never take trade-ins. I wouldn't have been interested in the Sunfire.Still have the 5.1. From time to time I decide to post it on Audiogon so I hook it up to make sure ... | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Some comments have been made about the "speed" of subwoofers, and that's an interesting subject. When people think of "speed", they think of good transient response, rapid rise time, quick decay, low group delay, and so forth. That seems logical, ... |