jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Physics of downward firing woofers Another thing, some speakers have down-firing ports which is the same idea. A long time back I went from B&W 804s to 802s. The 804s had front ports and the 802s had bottom ports. The measured in-room response of the 802s was dramatically be... | |
| Physics of downward firing woofers Bass waves are many feet long so the floor a few inches away doesn't have any bounce effect really. The sound typically radiates out Omni-directionally and this decreases bass resonance in the room. ATC makes down-firing subs and it's not cosmet... | |
| Subwoofer failings and their use-related reasons I've owned..Yamaha yst something (~1997)Polk 12"Infinity HPS1000Infinity Intermezzo 1.2Velodyne DD18None of them have ever broken while I owned them. The Velodyne was a floor model at a closing tweeter that I bought in 2006 and it still works fin... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Liszt - Fad or Future? I've had a few of the lower end models. I had the haydn, that was the first thing I ever bought from a real audio shop. When Best Buy dropped the line in about 2011 I bought a full surround set of demo models for a fraction of new. I've current... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers Over time I've come to better understand what drives this hobby. Stereophile is a better word than audiophile. It's mostly about the stereo for most people. It's similar with watch lovers. It doesn't much matter how well the watch tells time, ... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers I've done it all before. I built a ton of bass traps and combined with some digital eq I had the bass response +-1 decibel in my concrete basement. It had been +-15 at least. I wouldn't go through that again. Getting the bass to have a perfect... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers This is going nowhere since great looks and great sound are subjective. If I ever get a dedicated room again I'll get it to sound how I want it to and then over time I'll try to make it look halfway decent. I tend to like a room that is pretty w... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers You can pretty a good sounding room up a bit but room treatments are inherently homely. It's all subjective anyway but anything dealing with sound absorption/diffusion is going to have to have quite a bit of surface area to be effective and will ... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers If aesthetics are important then the sound will never be great. I have no problem with people who want to listen to good looking speakers in a good looking room but if that's what you want you don't need to care too much about electronics. You d... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world The key is to make speakers that are so expensive that no dealers stock them and almost nobody has ever heard them. You can claim they're the best and shame anyone who questions you by claiming they're just too poor to afford them. I won't liste... | |
| Wilsons are the best speakers in the world Wilson has captured a big chunk of the super high budget speaker market. Whether or not they're objectively superior is secondary. If high cost electronics makers want to sell to the high budget market they might as well use the speakers that th... | |
| Underspent on speakers relative to overall system? Even if there was an ideal ratio at one price point there's no reason to think it'd hold at another one. The points of diminishing returns for various types of components aren't going to all be in the same ballpark. People will fight about what ... | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers I want the best performance for the money. Looks aren't entirely irrelevant but they're way down the priorities list. I definitely agree that vandersteen has the right idea with the cloth exterior with just a little bit of wood. It looks fine b... | |
| Thiel Customer Service - New ownership is terrible!!! - WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS COMPANY ? I thought that value being what the price conscious person is looking for was obvious enough to not need to be explicitly stated. There are a few people who have so much money that they can just buy what they think is best regardless of price and... | |
| Thiel Customer Service - New ownership is terrible!!! - WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS COMPANY ? If discounters won't pay what the manufacturer needs to get for a product then don't sell to them for a discounted price. Of course there will always be people resellers negotiating for a lower price, bulk discount, whatever. Price is almost alw... |