jon_5912
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| Subwoofers - Front Firing or Down Firing - Which Sounds Best? In my experience down-firing is less likely to excite room nodes. I assume because they essentially fire in four different directions rather than one. I would speculate that in a perfect room, front-firing would be best because you could line it... | |
| Two medium size woofers Vs One big size woofer I wonder how the larger surface area of a large woofer factors into the acceleration factor. A large driver with twice the surface area of a smaller one only needs half the movement of the smaller one to move the same amount of air. That has to ... | |
| Thiel Owners The differences are subtle, but important. Thielhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkf5uscX7MgATChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QsAlqTN_E | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 - I have both. I have two (or so) stereos and one is Thiel. The other has some active ATC 110s. I love both but I think there's no way to say one is better because there are inherent tradeoffs. The ATC system has dynamics that the Thiel... | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 - I thought that's the direction new Thiel should have gone. Thiel had great drivers, great cabinets, but nobody who could do the crossover design. If they had gone with computer based crossovers they could've had multiple crossover setti... | |
| What 4 subwoofers to buy? You can get a doodad to take a high level signal to low level at Best Buy for $50. I did this recently for a desktop system. The thing is aimed at car audio and will be in the car audio installation area. | |
| Should I be able to hear a 4Hz difference in my speakers? Both have small woofers so the bass around 30hz is mostly coming from the ports. In my experience, larger woofers are capable of higher quality bass at lower frequencies than smaller woofers. The larger woofers will probably go lower before the ... | |
| Child Damage Mitigation I built a light wood frame around my speakers and covered it with some cloth mesh from a fabric store. It kept the monkeys from doing any damage while they were tiny. When they get a little bigger you've got to watch for them messing with the vo... | |
| Tidal vs ATC @kenjit It's better to let the main speakers roll off, use a sub or subs to fill in the bottom. Most people would prefer to not have an eq in the main signal path and one that is transparent will be expensive. It's better to eq sub frequencies ... | |
| Tidal vs ATC @douglas_schroeder I think a gradual rolloff starting at a higher frequency is better in most situations. Most rooms will provide too much gain in the bass and a speaker that's flat to 20 hz will have massive humps. A speaker that starts to roll... | |
| Tidal vs ATC I don't have a problem with low bass, I just think it's difficult to impossible to have a speaker excel at everything. The ones that can play extremely loudly without distortion need stronger, heavier drivers that in my experience aren't as convi... | |
| Tidal vs ATC Big active ATCs are awesome speakers. I haven't heard Tidal. In my opinion you should consider having a couple of pairs. One pair that excels at big dynamics and that you can play loudly, and another pair that excels at reproducing acoustic mus... | |
| OMG, just removed my speaker grills and the sound just opened up to a new level! Focal must be really bad at designing speakers if the grills make that big of a difference. | |
| Active Not powered stand mount loudspeaker recommendations Active speakers frequently have amplifiers built in. It's just that they have active crossovers between the source and the amplifier. If you have a pair of two way speakers, you need 2 channels of amplification in each one for active, but only o... | |
| Active Not powered stand mount loudspeaker recommendations @erik_squires a powered speaker that is not active is one that has built in amplification but the crossover is still between the amplifier and the drivers. Active is when the crossover is before the amplification. |