kingharold
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| What's your favorite speaker finish? My latest DIY speakers are veneered with blonde Burmese teak veneer that used to be available from Rockler. I used much #0000 steel wool and very fine sandpapers in between one coat of Minwax Natural Wood Finsh , four coats of polyeurartane va... | |
| Women who enjoy quality speakers With my wife and me it all began in 1968. She had a Lear 8 track stereo in her Chevrolet which sounded worlds better than the squawky AM radio in my old beater. That started the two of us on a search for better and better sound which continues t... | |
| When was the first time that you heard great sounding speakers? For me it was KLH 9s in a warehouse room in the building with a book store in Anniston, Alabama in 1973. My wife and I visited the store, and I mentioned to the owner that I was an audiophile, and I wished he sold LPs. He said no LPs, but he did... | |
| Bass Driver Size - how much better is an extra inch? One way to get the transient response of a six or eight inch woofer out of a fifteen inch woofer is to put an appropriate fifteen in a well designed corner horn. Admittedly this mandates a largish enclosure. Mine are 18 cu.ft. each. | |
| Pondering a change after 30 odd years... I would advise you to think long and hard before you let go of your 1+1s. Back in the 1980s I owned and loved a pair of 2+2s, but foolishly sold them in order to try to do better. It took me nearly thirty years to find speakers I liked better th... | |
| Do active speakers interest you? Also, let's talk directivity Active speakers can be a real delight for DIY speaker builders. A good DSP like the DEQX unit I use with my fully horn loaded triamplified DIY speakers allows not only speaker correction, room correction, time and phase correction, etc. but also ... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers I owned Acoustat 2=2 electrostatics for years and loved them. Ever since I sold them I have been trying to find speakers with the clarity, speed and imaging of electrostatics but also with great dynamics and slam. I feel that I have finally ach... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? " So if 99.9 % of us will never hear these speakers or see them in a good listening room, maybe Stereophile should stop reviewing them and let a magazine like Oligarchs Monthly. "As an amateur speaker designer and builder for over forty years ... | |
| Automatic Room Correction has won the Subwoofer Wars I have ARC with my home theater system and also vastly more sophisticated and capable DEQX DSP with my two channel music system. I have never been impressed with ARC, but the DEQX is a totally different matter. To begin with performing speaker co... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? " mahlman, I don't understand your question. What does it have to do with the question at hand? I read as much or as little of a book as pleases me. That doesn't make me a non-reader. " What it makes you in this case is uninformed as to wh... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? mahlman, I don't understand your question. What does it have to do with the question at hand? I read as much or as little of a book as pleases me. That doesn't make me a non-reader. | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? During the last 50 years I have built many DIY speakers, amplifier kits, simple electronic components, installed electronic component upgrades etc. Due to a worsening vision impairment I am no longer able to do any of there things. Does this sud... | |
| There's a lot more bass in a 6.5" driver than most of you think I use Mirage M290 two ways with 6.5 inch mid/woofers as computer speakers. They produce a good sound with a balanced frequency response, but to compare the bass from ported 6.5s to the bass from good 15" woofers loaded in 25 Hz Bill Fitzmaurice d... | |
| Mirage Speakers? I use Mirage M290 two ways as computer speakers with a Belles power amp. This makes an excellent near field system. I heard Mirage M1 speakers dem'od several times. They were an excellent bipolar speaker though on the whole I much prefer dipola... | |
| How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ? Please pardon my ignorance, but what is SQ? |