johnk
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| Which speakers to get for a Very Large Room. Horns are your best choice your space is massive a dynamic loudspeaker design would have much thermo compression since large power would be needed to fill rooms volume to create adequate SPL and dynamics. The voice coils would be near melting temp... | |
| Clarity MR caps for external crossover? Better to keep old network intact build new one compare the 2. How can you tell If its a real improvement unless you have a base to compare too. Best is to have 2 of the same model keep one stock make upgrades to the other compare measure changes.... | |
| Altec 510 reviews? I would go 604 or model 19. | |
| Clarity MR caps for external crossover? Make sure you keep your stock networks what your doing may not improve sound quality over Tannoys network | |
| How far apart do you position your speakers ? Not all loudspeakers are designed for facing forwards most are designed with toe in in mind. The reason is the frequency response on and off axis. There is no rule that could ever tell me where to place a loudspeaker or how far apart. To many vari... | |
| How far apart do you position your speakers ? As far as they need to be. | |
| open baffle speaker question For cheap OB I suggest Fostex fe126e and a ported gold wood woofer. Works very well for cheap. | |
| open baffle speaker question Drew said and I quote[Don't bother with a full range on a baffle even if you add a sub-woofer and/or super-tweeter.] This is wrong info many experts use this design Including Nelson Pass. I think Nelson might have the edge in real world experience... | |
| open baffle speaker question There are dipole tweeters RAAL Mundorf etc.I use a dipole RAAL in my OB | |
| open baffle speaker question Fostex fe206en and eminence 15in woofer in as large and as thick a plywood OB you can handle. With inductors and 4 sheets baltic 3/4 in about $800-900 http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/prod_b5_man.pdf | |
| Speaker wire Supra makes very hi quality and affordable cabling. | |
| Holes in back panel of speakers replace screws problem solved. | |
| Line Array Speaker vs Point Source Speaker Essentialaudio you mean point source? | |
| Line Array Speaker vs Point Source Speaker Line array loses less SPL with distance point source should image a bit better but this all depends on total design. Line arrays are large, point source designs usually not so large. | |
| Does anyone like vintage speakers? Yes I sure do. Many cool interesting a good sounding designs if your in the know. |