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| Maggies a waste if only 3' from backwall? Most of my experience has been with different planars (as well as with several bipolars), but I don't see much advantage to going with a smaller model instead of a larger one based on distance from the wall. The relevant factor is the path length ... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? There are three reasons why rooms have so much more impact on the sound in the bass region than elsewhere in the room. The first is acoustic, and the second two are psychoacoustic.Normal home listening room dimensions tend to be "small" relative t... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? Saki70, I'd have to see the speaker (and preferably know its crossover frequency) to make a judgment about its radiation pattern.The room gain you get in a small room plays right into the hands of a good back-loaded horn that exits into a corner. ... | |
| New spreakers sound great But Moving either your speakers or listening position (or both) closer to the wall will often increase the perceived bass. For a quick test, go stand up against the wall and see if the bass improves. If that's not feasible, then you might consider add... | |
| Older Altec horn speakers Johnnyb53 wrote: "I prefer a lower crossover point from a 15" speaker, but if it works, it works."He's referring to the 1200 Hz crossover point between the Altec Model 19's 15" woofer and 1" horn-loaded compression driver. At first glance, Johnnyb... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? "What design characteristics would be favorable for speakers in a small room that would not be favorable for speakers that were to be used in a large room and visa/versa?"Well this depends somewhat on where the speakers are located within the room... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? Thanks, Halcro. There can be other reasons for the perceived tonal balance to change with level, but I think differing thermal compression characteristics among drivers is usually the main one. Heykay, even though your 12 by 19 foot room would pro... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? Saki70, you have very good questions. I'm going to avoid getting too specific here because I don't want my post to cross the line and become an "ad". Driver integration is dependent on driver vertical spacing, crossover frequency & slope, and ... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? J Bailey, your experience with the large-format Klipsch Chorus II's in a relatively small room makes sense to me. They probably benefit from generous boundary reinforcement, and are directional enough to avoid the onslaught of early reflections th... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? Small rooms are the most difficult. You have at least three acoustic issues in a small room:1. Early onset of reflections (causes coloration and/or compromised imaging);2. Worse room modal situation than in larger rooms so the bass is lumpier;3. O... | |
| Speakers for live piano performance Conventional home audio speakers do not work well for prosound. One problem is the radiation pattern; in a pro audio setting most of the listeners are in the farfield, where the "power response" (summed omnidirectional response) of the speaker dom... | |
| most articulate speaker For the record, the guy who builds the speakers Clio09 owns readily concedes that a good ESL is more articulate.When the day comes that ESL manufacturers are moved to advertise "ribbon-like transparency" or "horn-like articulation" or "dome-like c... | |
| The closest approach: what amplification? Unsound, obviously I should have made it clear which part of my response was about things an owner of existing speakers could do, and which referred to something that would have to be done during the design stage. In my opinion using an autoformer... | |
| The closest approach: what amplification? Unsound, an across-the-board raising of the impedance curve (a la Speltz autoformer) will usually make a speaker more high-output-impedance-amp friendly, if needed. Redesigning the crossover to smooth out the impedance curve is seldom practical, b... | |
| The closest approach: what amplification? Unsound asked Bill about high output impedance... obviously I'm not Bill, but I'll take a shot.If the amplifier has a very high output impedance (very low damping factor), to a certain extent the loudspeaker's impedance curve will "modulate" the a... |