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johnk

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Bybee Internal Speaker Bullets - user feedback?
Bybee better off upgrading components or improving room or better yet buying music. Lots of sudo science and BS in audio don't fall for it. We all suffer from confirmation biases and are easily fooled or audio video playback wouldn't even work. It... 
Line Magnetic 755 vs AN/KSPe vs DeVore O/96
LM 755 a loudspeaker one could keep for life. 
Need Advice For A large Room 2 Channel Speaker
For such a large space consider a horn based loudspeaker or of the speakers mentioned larger maggies with massive power. 
Speaker Improvement Advance Design Better Upgrade
Surround Less and spider less transducers have been about since the 1920s. I collect restore vintage design construct modern loudspeakers I would say the largest improvement has been in crossover quality and ease of design and tweeters have improv... 
Energy 22 Pro Need Assistance
http://speakerholic.blogspot.com/2013/11/energy-22-tweeter-replacement.html 
Energy 22 Pro Need Assistance
You can use felt madisound has it with adhesive back you will need to cut out the gaskets so if you can remove intact and trace to make that easier. 
Energy 22 Pro Need Assistance
The screws are under the foam on both drivers 
Subwoofer: should we even use them at all?
faster subwoofers? are they midranges now.lol 
Is it possible to have Good Imaging close to wall
Loudspeakers with controlled radiation pattern like horns can be used up against wall with little to no penalty 
Subwoofer: should we even use them at all?
The conventional subwoofer is full of massive compromise in design -overly small cabinet, drivers with massive excursion, requiring huge power and room boundary reinforcement to produce bass. The excursion causes poor transient response extra dist... 
Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?
My RCA MI Shearer horns and the Western Electric 13a 
"Against design"
Hard to advance the art of loudspeaker design building the same old 2 ways and slim towers the market demands. 
Fostex t 500 a. mk2
Having owned and used near 50- t500amk2 I've never heard any breakin at all. They just sound great out of the box. Tweeter diaphragms move very fast so breakins not a issue. 
RWO/Fostex LS3
good sounding loudspeakers easily comparable to JBL 
Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?
RCA MI Shearer horns with multicells easy to listen too for hours on end always exciting and enjoyable.