drew_eckhardt
Responses from drew_eckhardt
| Why not go crossover-less? >Would there not be an advantage to place the crossover in the linestage instead of the speaker?Other than marketing there's no good reason not to. The cross-over function doesn't change with output level; you can use all-pass filters to match ... | |
| NHT Returns to a New Marketplace? >So even knowing how good of a product they did make and could make , I still would not buy without being able to evaluate a products performance to my tastes , needs and expectations. My fear is the reality that this will soon be the "norm". C... | |
| What is your favorite type of tweeter? >If a manufacturer were designing a new loudspeaker at a $5K or $10K price point, would there be a bias in favor of domes, in order to stick with a known, familiar entity, or a bias away from domes, in order to create interest and set oneself a... | |
| I moved now Kef sound bad >thanks for all your imput, but is their a way to compensate for having a speaker 44'' from the side wall and the other from the kitchen cooking island?An equalizer with a shelving high-pass filter will help some. Using a receiver or processor ... | |
| Cat friendly or actually unfriendly speaker If you're not using burlap sacks for grill covers the cat will probably ignore the speakers.A scratching surface in his preferred orientation (horizontal or vertical) in the same room will be preferred because it feels better.And if none of that w... | |
| Anyone hear the "wall of sound"? Mechans writes:> Why not have 4 or 5000 watts to get some truly dynamic sound out of the new standard size 6.5 inch woofer . You'll run into mechanical limits before you get to even 1000 Watts.If you do want the head room, larger more sensitive... | |
| Housing Floorstanders in Cabinets You'll need to modify the cross-overs or add a shelving high-pass filter to compensate for the bass through lower mid-range boost.Receivers with Audyssey will correct for this. Room correction systems like Lexicon's should accomodate it. | |
| Disconnect the woofer >If I was to unhook the wires to the woofer of my (non-biwireable) 3 way speakers, would the crossover parts that make up the low pass to the woofer still be using up energy from my amp, or is there no energy loss since the circuit is not compl... | |
| true bookshelf speaker >You need sonic hollography.Find a good tube amp That's the opposite of what you want to be doing. A speaker with baffle step compensation for placement away from room boundaries is going to have 3-6dB more output at its woofer and port resonan... | |
| speaker wiring for h/t and stereo Line level switch ahead of the tube amp so you use if for home theater too, speaker level switch down between the two, and in the later case care to make sure you don't feed the amp a signal when the speakers (you get more voltage swing when it's ... | |
| true bookshelf speaker >Or is it a matter of compromise or increasing the WAF by having speakers on a stand imposing in the room?If you're looking for WAF, Triad sells in-wall versions of most of their speakers. Everything they do is made to order and they can provid... | |
| true bookshelf speaker >There seems to be a lot of bookshelf sized speakers which all seem to provide far better performance as a stand mount>What mid -high end speakers provide the imaging openess etc on a bookshelf ?None, the problem being that even mid range wa... | |
| The speaker grade class A, B.... There are two classes of speakers: ones designed for uniform power + polar response with a monotonic decrease in total output above some frequency, and ones that don't pay enough attention to it. The former class has the potential to be exceptiona... | |
| Audio Do do with 40 years experience One day I turned on my tri-amplified system, started listening to music, and found the sound thin with drums and bass missing.It took me a few minutes to notice that some how I managed to miss the bass amp because its power LED and switch were sti... | |
| Just changed component stands - how to modify soun If there are real acoustic changes it's due to reflections off the enclosure or resonances in it and not any differences in vibrations unless you have microphonic tubes.You could take the door off and cut bigger holes in the sides, put 4" type 704... |