drew_eckhardt
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| Speakers with no rear wall, better or worse sound? Different. Maybe better. 4 feet is too close to be optimum for many speakers - 5 feet, 6 feet, more is often better.You'll push the front-wall reflections out in time which helps sound-stage depth, drop the front wall reflection intensity which ma... | |
| Crossovers and dynamics As a foot note inductors have some resistance associated with them but the losses there aren't significant enough to be interesting.Inductor resistance is likely to be around .3 Ohms. That will drop the output of an ideal 8 Ohm driver wired in ser... | |
| Crossovers and dynamics >OK I will rephrase the question. I have heard that multi-ordered crossovers will reduce the dynamic capabilities of a speaker vs. having no crossover at all (full range). Is this trueNo. A good sounding full range driver must be small so that ... | |
| Crossovers and dynamics They have no negative effect on dynamics or efficiency.They do allow higher output levels than first order cross-overs without unacceptable distortion or higher cross-over points which in turn lead to the non-monotonic directivity that makes speak... | |
| Best real world radial / omidirectional speaker Maybe the Linkwitz Pluto 2.1Wood Artistry will sell you a pair for $2995 (including amplifiers - they're actively bi-amplified with the electronics contained in the base of each speaker), presumably with some choice of wood accents and paint.While... | |
| Missing sound of instruments/voice/ on CD tracks >I'm missing sound of some instruments or voice when playing CD's. Even duplicate CD's, when played, I'm missing some digital information or not having it picked up some where. For instance, the lead guitar part in a song may be totally missing... | |
| Front wall speaker distance Driver side since its distance is what determines the time delay between direct sound and the first reflections which in turn indicates things like frequency of the SBIR null (where the driver is 1/4 wavelength from the wall thus making its first ... | |
| When Bi-amping is there change in sensitivity >03-20-12: Manitunc>I dont quite understand how the crossover circuit prevents the low frequency currents from being supplied by the mid/hi frequency amplifier since the amp is being fed the full range and only after it reaches the speaker d... | |
| When Bi-amping is there change in sensitivity >03-19-12: Frogman>Also, while I understand that each amp would see a full range signal at it's input, I don't understand why the amp would not still benefit from not having to DRIVE a full range signal. What am I missing?There's "a benefit"... | |
| How much can be measured -- and how much cannot? >But others say there are things in high end audio that will never me measurable and that measurements are really not that important.Speaker preference has a very strong correlation (if you weren't a scientist you'd say it was causal) with with... | |
| When Bi-amping is there change in sensitivity >03-18-12: Gago1101>Another question I had was if the transients in the mid-high frequencies require as much headroom as the transients in the bass region. Yes provided that you are passive bi-amping (although I'd argue active bi-wiringis a ... | |
| Center channel - Need help A third speaker identical to your left and right channels would be ideal. | |
| Why none of high-end speakers offer Speakon? >Gago1101>I am kind of new to all the high-end electronics and have started to build a system. I have already payed 8K for a tube pre-amp (Einstein The t8be MK2) and will be buying speakers and amplifiers next. I have noticed though that all... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b >02-23-12: Unsound>I'd be leery of putting too much stock in Sterophiles testing of first order speakers. Unlike many other speakers manufactures, first order speaker manufacturers usually suggest testing speakers at the preferred listening ... | |
| Stupid speaker test question...please help a n00b >quite in disagreement with you on this. you clearly state you are speculating - have you heard any true 1st-order x-over speakers? $#I've heard Dunlavies + Thiels and they subjectively don't sound as correct as good designs with higher order c... |