jon_5912
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| Am I an Audiophile, a music lover-or both? It's fine to like certain sounds for their own sake. It's why there are orchestras, bands, vocalists, etc. You could do it all on a computer with a crude synthesizer but it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying. There's a reason some guitars, pianos... | |
| Please suggest bookshelf with best bass response under $4000 pr. Theoretically a smaller driver with greater excursion can go deep but at the expense of sensitivity. Ports or transmission line can extend frequency response down as well. There's no substitute for a big driver in a big box, though. In my exper... | |
| Vienna Acoustics Bach Grand I have pairs of the bach grand and mozart grands that I bought when Best Buy dropped the line back in 2011. In my experience these are very setup dependent speakers. The small drivers mean there isn't a lot of punch and the surprisingly deep bas... | |
| B&W 805 Nautilus for PC? terrible how? Those are a little bit bright and will be brighter nearfield. They also don't have the best off-axis response so if I were you I'd point them directly at you. You might need some felt or something over the tweeters to lower the tr... | |
| Speakers are the first piece of the puzzle I remember reading an interview with a dealer where the dealer recommended spending most of the money on electronics for a new system and then upgrading speakers later. I thought about it for a while and realized that this is the best for a deale... | |
| Physics of downward firing woofers Sound travels at about 1087 ft/second so the length of a 40 hz bass wave in 1087/40=27 feet. Carpeting won't have any significant effect on a wave that long. It's why bass traps have to be so big. | |
| 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... |