kirkus
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| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Changing the relative phase between the woofer and tweeter will of course alter the summed power response, as well as the vertical dispersion charasteristics, of the complete speaker.But I think it's clear that the relative phase between the two d... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? I inverted the polarity of the drivers, by simply reversing the red and black speaker wire leads to the terminals of both speakers, so that the speakers are still in phase with each other, but now the woofers are negative polarity and the tweeters... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? Fascinating. But would this effect be constant across all recordings with different absolute polarities?Yes, this has nothing to do with absolute phase . . . it's more of a component-layout issue.Here's an example - if you were to take two identic... | |
| Polarity mystery: Can you help me solve it? If you want to get a better idea what's going on, then at some point, after getting completely used to the way things are now . . . you need to put the connections back the way they were originally, and leave it that way long enough to form some n... | |
| why does digital volume control cause loss in info It should be kept in mind, though, that in concept the loss of resolution with a digital volume control at lower volumes is no different than what occurs with an analog volume control, although there will certainly be differences in degree. Al, th... | |
| Mcintosh C-2300 first impressions Ten days is indeed not very long, either for the equipment to settle in or to make a decision. You might call your Mac dealer and tell them your first impressions, and ask for a little more time to make a final decision - this may take off some of... | |
| cassette deck enthusitast pt 2....sleeper 2 header Parts availability of old Nak 480s/680s/700s etc. is bleak, and their electronics were pretty noisy. Later BX-1s and BX100s were better, but there's that silly rubber idler for the wind/rewind hubs that always goes bad.But the Nakamichi CR-1A/CR-2... | |
| Side firing woofers Well said Duke . . . I'd just like to add that at the frequencies covered by most side/rear/bottom mounted woofers, the wavelengths are long enough where the driver is essentialy a monopole (omnidirectional), so which direction they're "firing" pe... | |
| Running 4 speakers from a 2-channel amp A much better solution would be to get a second power-amp or a high-end home-theater power amp (i.e. McIntosh MC7205), and run each speaker of its own amplifier channel. Simply split the preamp signal with Y-cables on the amplifier inputs.Also, if... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Atmasphere, we're definately on the same page as far as the system-matching aspect of different amplifiers being optimum for different loudspeakers, especially when comparing among various speakers and amplifiers that use very different technologi... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Unsound, thanks for the link to the Threshold Stasis article. From the description given, there are two main differences between the Stasis circuit and a conventional solid-state amplifier.First the output stage -- a standard bipolar emitter-follo... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Best Thanksgiving and holiday wishes to all . . .I am not discussing clipping at all, nor do I see clipping power as interchangeable with output impedance- no idea where you got that.Atmasphere, here's where I got that . . . quoting from your "whi... | |
| Double down, good or bad? First, I'm not talking about clipping here- at all. I am well aware of the significance of the woofer in the box!Atmasphere, clipping power is precisely what this thread, and "doubling-down" is all about. What I'm confused about is why you seem to... | |
| Double down, good or bad? The Power paradigm term for this is 'power amplifier' since such amplifiers attempt to make constant power into all loads rather than constant voltage.Er, no, unless you're inventing your own terminology here.A voltage amplifier amplifies voltage,... | |
| Double down, good or bad? Sorry Unsound, it's been way too many years since I've had a Threshold amp on the bench, or looked at a schematic of one, to comment intelligently. I seem to remember the Stasis output stage resembling the complimentary-feedback-pair configuration... |