helomech
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| Stand Alone Super Tweeter for Revel F208? A friends B&W 802D2 has that sparkle I’m referring to as well. Ringing tweeter also?If a driver cone sounds like the material it’s made of, as is the case with many speakers mentioned here, then yes (yeah, yeah, I'm well aware of cone breakup ... | |
| Moving from MM to MC The SAS/ M97xe combo is a giant killer IMO, at least up to around the $1K mark. The caveat is that it requires precise alignment and setup to hear everything it has to offer (especially VTA and VTF). It also takes a good 50 hours of break-in befor... | |
| Stand Alone Super Tweeter for Revel F208? Totems have ringing tweeters, that's the "sparkle" you're hearing. Revels need no help in the treble region. | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? @o_holter It sounds as though your setup adjustments might have reduced some cartidge resonance. I’m thinking that was likely part of the problem.And in answer to one of your questions, yes, sometimes subsonic noise is actually pressed right into ... | |
| Yesteryears' expensive speakers compared to modern moderately expensive speakers What almarg said +1An improvement in speaker technology should result in better sound. Better sound is quite subjective. As for manufacturing efficiencies, those are often achieved by sacrificing quality. | |
| KEF LS50 Wireless -- wow!!! ^ Maybe it's time for an audiogram. | |
| Revel Salon 2’s (used) or new Magico A-3 (new) ?? Golden Ears tend to sound a bit dark and bass heavyWeird. Golden Ear's Triton speakers are some of the brightest, most fatiguing I've encountered, even when driven by McIntosh amps. Ironically, in the same room where I auditioned the Triton 1s, I ... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? Whatever you do, don’t get a subsonic filter, unless of course you want to kill good sound.This is nonsense. I use the cheap DB Systems filters and the loss in fidelity is barely perceptible.I also discovered that, indeed, "silent" record grooves ... | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? The instruments that are most difficult for a microphone to capture. | |
| most advanced speaker in a rectangular wooden box? @sonance,If a speaker has inferior sound, regardless of materials/design, it's not advanced in my book. The whole purpose of advancing speaker design is better sound. If speakers containing beryllium tweeters, carbon fiber woofers and built-in amp... | |
| Is the 2.5 way speaker the ideal home speaker? @kijanki I think the bottom line is that if a driver is crossed over close to 4kHz, it’s covering most of a human’s vocal capability that falls within the most sensitive range of our hearing ability. It keeps the crossover away from the meat of th... | |
| Is the 2.5 way speaker the ideal home speaker? Eric,The only 3-ways I currently own are Klipsch Heresy IIIs. I just looked up their crossover point, it's a rather high 5kHz. These speakers still lack coherency unless listening from a distance of 11' or more. I would guess that is most likely d... | |
| Is the 2.5 way speaker the ideal home speaker? ^ Eric,Revel F206 : 2.1kHzMonitor Audio Silver 8: 2.7 kHzParadigm Monitor 11 v7: 2.2 kHzParadigm Persona 3: 2.4 kHzThe first 3 I auditioned extensively. I owned the Silver 8s for a year They all lacked some coherency IMO. | |
| Golden ear triton 1 vs tekton double impact speakers ^ Sandy Gross doesn't even qualify as a "DIY'er." Even though Eric makes some outlandish claims, at least he has some real engineering cred. | |
| Is the 2.5 way speaker the ideal home speaker? @erik_squires I'm not sure I follow, @helomech - Usually higher tweeter points are achieved with 3-way systems which use a "true" midrange. That's why I stated, "well designed examples."I know of quite a few 3-ways that are still crossed over to t... |