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| Atma-Sphere Mp-1 mk III I agree with EssentialAudio on the pairing of MP-1 with JC-1, and I'm sure the MP-1 could be quite successfully paired with a very wide variety of amplifiers, preferably with true balanced inputs of course.One way to reduce system gain is with int... | |
| Speakers and Tube Amps Thanks Ralph, and thank you too, Dev.Blindjim, in my opinion the "order" of the crossover doesn't reveal whether or not a speaker is tube-friendly. I can think of examples with filters ranging from first through fourth order, and don't really see ... | |
| Speakers and Tube Amps Mike, as Swampwalker suggests, you can ask. Or if you want to do some legwork (or keyboardwork), you can see whose amplifiers they have shown with at audio shows. When I first became a SoundLab dealer, I was quite frustrated that the factory would... | |
| Speakers and Tube Amps Maybe I can put on my speaker designer hat and comment on Ralph aka Atma-Sphere's statement that you need to find out the intention of the speaker designer.Let's say we have an "8-ohm" speaker whose impedance dips to 4 ohms in the upper bass regio... | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect Thanks, Aldavis. Just so you know, I don't mean to discount your personal experiences and observations, such as regarding 4th order crossovers, but it's possible that the problems you heard could be traced to a frequency response issue arising fro... | |
| 2-way speaker with best bass Good call, Spenceroo. I forgot about the Timepiece - it definitely belongs in this thread.Duke | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect Aldavis, in my opinion that author makes a mistake in assuming an anechoic environment for the sake of simplicity. I believe the room's influence to be the dominant factor in determining the perceived low-frequency characteristics, assuming compet... | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect Shadorne, I disagree with the basic premise of the author of that article. His third sentence describes his foundational belief:"I soon learned that realistic loudspeaker reproduction requires reproduction of the input waveform, which seems somewh... | |
| 2-way speaker with best bass The Altec Model 19 has very good bass, but it's a tad larger than some of the other two-ways mentioned in this thread.Duke | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect If you have a steep-slope lowpass filter (24 dB per octave), then you can get away with spreading subs around the room. Most subs have a 12 dB per octave lowpass filter, and so will give away their presence and not blend well because they allow to... | |
| What to fill Skylan stands with for Harbeth SHL5s Someone in the industry who I respect a great deal, but don't have permission to quote so I won't use his name, thinks very highly of Star Sound Technologies' Micro-Bearing conductive steel. Someone other than the folks at Star Sound, I should add... | |
| Atma-Sphere MP-1 inputs Nope. I agree with Tvad. I use the single-ended tape loop as the input from my dac.Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect I was logged in on the account of a physically challenged friend (with his permission) when I posted above. Duke | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect Comb filtering is not an issue at low frequencies because the room response swamps out any lobing due to multiple sources. Because the ear is literally slow to register bass frequencies, it cannot distinguish between the first-arrival sound and th... | |
| Increase efficiency with high-pass filters? Sorry, but you wouldn't gain any efficiency.If you're talking about a filter that comes before the amplifier, you'd gain about 1 dB of amplifier headroom by relieving it of having to reproduce the bass region at full power. If the filter comes aft... |