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| Forward sounding speakers that Rock Greetings YYZ, I've noticed exactly what you're talking about with Rush recordings - many otherwise fine-sounding systems sound lifeless with Rush. I don't think the entire answer is necessarily a forward tonal balance; rather, I think it has as m... | |
| Omni directional speakers The Gradient Revolution and Helsinki both have exceptionally smooth power response (something a good omni also achieves), but the design goal is radiation pattern control to reduce early room reflections, rather than omnidirectionality. In my opin... | |
| Wide dispersion tweeters In general, smaller diameter diaphragm = wider dispersion. Note that the tweeter's faceplate (and the surrounding front baffle of the speaker) will act as a 180 degree horn, limiting the radiation pattern at the lower end of the tweeter's passband... | |
| Homemade sound panels Be careful not to end up with a room that's dead in the upper frequencies and still highly reverberant in the bass. It's easy to over-absorb short wavelengths, but very difficult to absorb long wavelengths. Lining the walls with a lot of foam pane... | |
| Best $500 speakers for Home theater only? For home theater, given that you already have a high-output sub, seems like high output mains are called for. Maybe Klipsch Chorus. Duke | |
| Beveridge speakers-does anyone still use them? Hello Baranyi,Congrats on your Beveridges! I had no idea. Very cool speakers indeed. Living legends.How do you have them set up? What are you driving them with? Thanks,Duke | |
| Zu Definition Pro - Please comment, room/shipping Hi Akatora,Your links are timing out for me, so I can't see what your room looks like. But if Macro says the big Zus will work in your room, I'm sure they will.As for shipping companies, I go first to freightquote.com in situations like this, but ... | |
| Hansen Emperor vs...... WildWildWes, I presume you're not aware... I wasn't either until Guido came to my room at RMAF. Guido is blind. That's why he said "I can report only what my ears detected".My wife was running my RMAF room when Guido came in, and when he asked a f... | |
| 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... |