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| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms A solid state amp will put out less power maximum power into a 16 ohm load, which of course is an issue if the amp may be pushed into clipping. But if the amp will produce adequate headroom into a high impedance load, in my opinion there's a valid... | |
| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms Putting on my speaker designer hat for a moment, if I have the option of allowing the impedance to drop to 4 ohms (or below) I can often get a bit more bass extension out of a speaker, and/or use more aggressive equalization. On the other hand as ... | |
| Could I damage my woofers by trying this? The woofer cone will sag a bit and assuming it doesn't have a very long linear excursion (most old woofers do not) the result could be audible distortion setting in at a lower volume level. As long as it has 2-3" clearance above the floor it can b... | |
| Zingali HM-215 horn speakers I haven't heard that particular model, but I heard a smaller model with a single 15" woofer and it was quite nice.If you're looking for "strong bass", the one with the single 15" woofer might be better. Adding a second identical woofer without dou... | |
| Sub for Quad ELS-989 The passive (speaker-level) highpasss filters found in plate amps are not designed with the impedance curve of an electrostat in mind. Also, they use cheap capacitors that in my opinion you do not want to put in series with your Quads. In other wo... | |
| Sub Recommendation to handle both music and movies This is a bit over your budget, but my suggestion is to get two Parts Express 10" subwoofer cabinets with cut-outs; two 240-watt amps without bass boost; and two 10" Dayton Reference subwoofers. The Daytons subs come in two varieties, the HF versi... | |
| Speakers for a 12 x 13 room Vikvilkhu, it sounds like you're thinking of high efficiency main speakers that don't go down very deep plus an equalized sub.For an optimal small-room system my own thinking is along similar lines, though you might consider using two or more smal... | |
| Speakers for a 12 x 13 room Boundary reinforcement in the bass region is typically stronger and sets in earlier (at a higher frequency) in small rooms. In my opinion we'd want the speaker's output in the bass region to be approximately the inverse of this room gain. Several ... | |
| 2-ways that are close to 3-ways Shoulda been "Vman71"... sorry 'bout that. | |
| 2-ways that are close to 3-ways Drew, just for the record, some of my two-ways go down into the lower 30's... but I think they're physically a whole lot bigger than what Vinman71 has in mind; there's certainly no size reduction from them being two-ways instead of three-ways. You... | |
| Omni Speaker Options Amilcar, regarding the suitability of your room to omnis, let me describe some pertinent aspects of how the ear/brain system processes incoming sound. I think this is useful background for people considering omni, dipolar, or bipolar speakers. Thi... | |
| Dual Subs Byfo, very few recordings are stereo below 100 Hz, but the final answer in my opinion is related to the low-pass filter frequency and slope. (The low-pass filter is what rolls off the top end of the sub's output, and usually the frequency is adjus... | |
| Dual Subs Let's look at a the situation with a single sub first. The primary bass issue in most rooms is the inevitable peak-and-dip pattern as the subwoofer interacts with the room boundaries. We can shift this peak-and-dip pattern by moving the sub or the... | |
| Normal Practice To Use 6 1/2" Sub With 8" Speaker? Ryder, woofer diameter is not a reliable predictor of bass extension. Often designers use large-diameter cones to reproduce very deep bass because a lot of air movement is required, but the cone size itself is not what causes a speaker to have dee... | |
| Gallo Reference III midrange COOKED A 250 watt amp driven into mild clipping could easily heat the voice coil more than 350 watts peak of clean music signal. What Elevick was told is however an exaggeration. It is heat, not a clipped waveform per se, that is damaging. From a thermal... |