erik_squires
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| DSP TO TAME THE BASS IN HARBETH SPEAKERS miniDSP HDAs always, DSP + bass traps are the way to go. | |
| What to do with a center speaker? You could buy another and use it vertically. :) | |
| Audio tips for rewiring old home Don't forget Ethernet! :) Don't care what brand, but it's always good to have Ethernet options for streaming in the bedrooms and listening rooms. | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? Hi Duke,I don't mean to nit pick but you listed this as beneficial: 1. Increased time delay between the first-arrival sound and the onset of the lateral reflections, and a generally increased decay time. Did you mean the last part? I thought ge... | |
| Poor Fritz Sorry, I need to clarify something, I wrote: The other benefit he claims is that because of how the parts are arranged, they stay out of the path of the drivers. A $30 cap in his speaker is equivalent to a $300 cap in others. What I should ha... | |
| Poor Fritz sorry @nn I should have tagged you in my previous post. | |
| Poor Fritz HI NN, On fritz website he shows that how smooth the impedance of his spkrs over the audio freq vs others. Yep, that's a function of the series crossover design the man is fixated on. :) Does it mean for the same db of music in a room the other ... | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Yeah, I wrote a whole blog about the modern B&W treble response and Stereophile pushing it. Drives the fans bonkers. https://speakermakersjourney.blogspot.com/2016/05/stereophile-reviews-data-doesnt-lie.htmlGlad to know others have also been ... | |
| Best room treatment Hi OP:I strongly suggest you treat your room first. It alters everything, and in a good way. What choices and effort you put into your system without it may be moot, or wrong after. So, any subwoofer solution will only alter frequencies below abo... | |
| Speaker stands on spikes or just set-screws? Make a difference? Very little. Stability and how big the footprint is matters much more, but bolts are ugly. What is important is minimizing the contact area and the motion of the speaker, ESPECIALLY back and forth. I'd go with rubber half balls if the stand was ... | |
| Poor Fritz Maybe start a more positive thread with something other than Poor Fritz, and redirect attention there. A request to a moderator could delete this one. I know without a shadow of a doubt that the same trolls would appear no matter what I name... | |
| Poor Fritz if everybody started one of these it would be forums full of crap. Oh man, this advice is waaaaay too late for this place. Ahahahahahaha. | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @Hi tomic601I'm happy to say that the cabinets for the SNR-1 were made by Lee Taylor and I could not be happier. Those cabinets do not need mods. What I need is a great room to put them in. :) Best,Erik | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Sorry I wasn't clear, I was actually trying to focus on audio related brands. :) | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Well, that's not a good example of a brand you changed your mind about. That's just a brand that didn't succeed. |