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| Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered? Remember, 2 properly positioned subs will provide very good bass at your designated listening position only, but not throughout your entire room. DBA subs give a time incoherent mess everywhere.The Dayton has no delay so there is time smearing.... | |
| How to connect monoblocks to a single REL sub with ONE RCA input @daveyf which system page? please post impulse and phase plots. I had a look. I find the Sonus intolerable. The low end is just awful in every system I’ve heard. [I’ve never owned a ported system]. I didn’t care for Nordost speaker cables in any d... | |
| How to connect monoblocks to a single REL sub with ONE RCA input @ hilde45you should NEVER use the high level output. Especially on a tube amp.Their use is strictly lofi. No professional installation uses anything like them. No matter what anyone says, they cannot produce accurate bass. Especially on a REL328 w... | |
| Subwoofer insight. Unfortunately a large proportion of the audiophile community is digital phobic. also engineering phobic | |
| Subwoofer insight. ever measured a voltage sweep in to the subs?unless the speakers are resistors or crossover-less, I'll wager it's not flat. | |
| Subwoofer insight. I’ll reiterate again: Taking a high level output from a Tube Amp is a bad idea.The speaker impedance controls the LEVEL INPUT TO THE SUB.See http://www.ielogical.com/assets/Audio/TubeAmpSpkrV.pngThe input to the sub is ≈7.7db lower at 20Hz than 60... | |
| Subwoofer insight. The $50 price comes from markup. My company installed thousands of Neutric XLRs in the 80's & 90's in pro studios. IMO, Switchcraft is a more rugged connector. SS vs pot metal, but a royal PITA to assemble. SC will with stand a road case ro... | |
| Subwoofer insight. SpeakOn is a connector!! It is a locking connector developed for sound reinforcement. It is overkill for a home subwoofer.It's FanBoy HiFi Jewelry as it serves NO SONIC PURPOSE.RCA, phone plug, banana all work as well.Since you're such a fan of th... | |
| Subwoofer insight. Rwwear. No they don’t. He meant HiLevel inputs.There's nothing magical about SpeakOn.IMO, they're just a $50 FanBoy addon. | |
| Subwoofer insight. Do the math & call me back... | |
| Subwoofer insight. No Electronics.Passive XO with teflon or polystyrene or polypropylene caps. The best RCAs. Wired with silver plated teflon coated wire and Ag solder.Listen to something with no low end like a Cecila Bartoli aria or Winton Marsalis solo. I defy any... | |
| Subwoofer insight. ^^ Nonsense.Adding wire to the SpeakOn adds L&C to the speaker main amp circuit.Using an XO reduces the main amp load, increasing dynamic range and reducing distortion from the main loudspeaker.I agree there is no free lunch, but High level fr... | |
| Subwoofer insight. I did not say REL are junk. They have moved into the HiFi Jewelry market adding things which do nothing for the sound and leaving out things that would.Phase=====To get low end out of a small woofer requires adding EQ to the amplifier which adds p... | |
| Subwoofer insight. @soundermn I bin doin' dis a long time.I got da tools.Tryin' to set up subs w ½-arsed controls is a YUGE PITA.IME, high level inputs w a toob amp is a bad idea. Transformers are current devices and many speaker impedances are all over the map in t... | |
| Subwoofer insight. any quality sub can be integrated into a system if setup correctly define integratedMore ≠ Better.Without multiple slopes, phase, polarity and optimally delay integration will suffer except for a very small subset of mains.IMO, some units are j... |