jon_5912
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| The best speakers over 50K >50k means almost nobody knows them well. It's a nonsense price range where appealing to vanity is far more important than performance. | |
| Poor Fritz 20 years ago people calling each other names on the internet was a problem. People got really angry and tried to track each other down. That ended, we've all seen millions of trolls, been called names a million times, and no longer respond with ... | |
| ATC placement help In my experience they are less sensitive to placement than most speakers. The sealed box means the bass starts dropping off slowly at a relatively high frequency. This is a blessing in most rooms because it reduces the huge bass peaks that most ... | |
| Thiel Owners Old Thiel was probably always there but the URL www.thielaudio.com was redirecting to the new Thiel IP address for the last several years. That probably expired and the url is pointing back to the old IP address somehow. URLs like www.thielaudio... | |
| Should music critics also be audiophiles? It's because they get more than their fill at work. They get to be professional musicians because they practice way more than they feel like. | |
| velodyne dd plus? still considered best of the best? They're not considered the best of the best but they're good enough. Deep bass doesn't need to be perfect. The room causes far more problems than the driver. I've got a 14 year old DD18 that works fine and I'd never consider replacing it unless... | |
| Concrete Audio Speakers...Speaker Enclosures made out of Concrete ?.. If you wanted to make big concrete speakers, the way to do it would be to make them modular. Stack 6" high sections on top of each other separated by thick gaskets. They need to be something that is assembled in place. You don't want to try to m... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? @timlub, have you ever considered using tiles to enforce a box? I'm just a hobbyist who likes tinkering and I wondered if including a ceramic or porcelain tile in the wall would make a big improvement without costing much since they're mass produ... | |
| SEAS Excel Magnesium Midwoofer 51/2 inches ROCK SOLID BASS IMO a driver that size never has enough punch to be satisfying in anything but a pretty nearfield situation. 8" is the minimum woofer size for adequate punch in anything but a nearfield setup. I don't doubt there are people in particular situati... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? @cakyol - I think the cost of changing from MDF to something else is most likely of less benefit than making other changes so companies focus on improving drivers, etc. If you can make a 5% performance improvement by spending $40 more on drivers ... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? If anyone was really curious about vibration control it'd be easy to add rigidity to a box. Go to Home Depot, but a pack of ceramic or porcelain floor tiles, and attach them to the flat spots on the speakers. Some double sided carpet tape might ... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? I'm guessing most manufacturers don't know that other materials exist. They don't know about aluminum, concrete, resins, etc. so they haven't considered using them. If only you'd tell them they could do some tests and decide whether they think t... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail If you're limiting yourself to around 100k you're looking at products that nobody has heard, nobody has really gotten to know, and that you can't get any meaningful information about. The tiny group of people that really know these products, who ... | |
| Thiel Owners @Rob, I definitely think it would be good to document problems and their solutions that we've had with our Thiels. That'd be a good addition to the Thiel models blog actually. I found out about the air chamber when I took my blown midrange into ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'd guess the overpowering sound was due to distortion when the drivers were pushed outside their normal range. It's an interesting problem to have. I've found it's distortion that hurts the ears. I can crank my ATCs up really high but because ... |