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| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible The terms "series" and "parallel" describe the basic topology of the circuit, and refer to the connection arrangement of the DRIVERS. Look at the diagram link from Sean above for the first-order "series", and note the difference in driver connecti... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Sean,I'm aware of the advantages of actives, but again it becomes an issue of the overall design compromise. As few people would be interested in a $15k/pr monitor, only a tiny fraction of them would even take a glance if it required biamping. Bes... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Sean,I haven't tried active crossovers, no. It's not really designed for this, because as you probably know, series crossovers only use one set of binding posts. There's no such thing as biamping. So there's only one set of posts on the speaker, a... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible C'mon guys, I was kidding, honest. It just struck me as funny, given the status of 901's as the reigning poster child for how not to make a high fidelity speaker.Best Regards,Karl SchuemannAudioMachina | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Sean,When you ask if I've tried them actively crossed over, I assume you mean to a sub on the low end. The answer is that I haven't. It is my opinion, having played with this stuff for a long time, that putting any crossover on the low side of the... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Sean,Sorry, I was unclear about the "loss" of 10dB at the speaker. I should have said "reduction" instead. In other words, the average music SPL that the speaker is able to deliver is almost 10dB less when used with the BOMB. This is, of course, d... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Eldartford,One more comment, about your statement that "it costs too much". While it is undoubtedly a very expensive system, that is not the whole story. In my opinion, and that of many others who have heard it, it significantly outperforms any of... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Hi Eldartford,Basically, it is possible to describe the low-frequency acoustical rolloff (transfer function) of a sealed-box speaker as a second-order high-pass electrical filter. This is an "equivalence" in the mathematical sense. Because of this... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Hi Sean,To respond to your main points:1. It is a mistake to make a blanket assumption that increased excursion per se is a serious problem, provided that the linear limits are not exceeded. While in an ideal world, excursion would be kept to zero... | |
| Low freq. from small drivers? Is it possible Hi all,I was forwarded this thread by Michael Wolff, and since my speakers are being discussed here, thought it would be appropriate to throw in my 2c.Many of the above posts are correct. It is indeed possible to get good bass out of small drivers... | |
| SF Grand Pianos/REL Storm III combo - help A lot of times, the RELs need to be set far below where you think the rolloff of the main speakers is "supposed" to be. In other words, if your mains go down to 40 Hz, set the sub somewhere in the upper 20's, and then play with it from there.Havin... | |
| Side firing bass designs - Pros & Cons?... Sean is right, you need to get very low in crossover point before it becomes impossible to localize it. Even a nominal crossover point of 100 Hz will still produce audible sound at several hundred Hz due to the crossover slope, and this is very ea... | |
| Which speakers excel at low volume? At the risk of starting a giant discussion, the truth is that almost no speaker sounds good at low volume. This is not the fault of the speaker, but rather the ear's nonlinear response at differing volumes. Do a search for "Fletcher-Munson curves"... | |
| Piego P-10 or big Thiels? I would vote for the Thiel 7.2s also, and they would be a very good match for your VK500, which is an excellent amp. The other comment: it might be worth upgrading the front end sooner rather than later, even if only to a Wadia 830 as a temporary ... | |
| $1K CD Player for Amp w/ truly balanced inputs Agree that the Theta Miles (balanced version) is one of the best choices in this price range. |