lonemountain
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| Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"? @donavabdear It's nice of you to think so, but to be correct I am NOT an acoustic engineer. I am really the behind the scenes product manager and also the one who talks to customers and visits studios (a "technical sales" function). However, I... | |
| room size question. Think of your speaker as a floodlight and your walls as mirrors. AS you get more and more reflections the light itself gets more and more confusing as to source and direction, etc. With enough reflections, you could actually be confused as to wh... | |
| room size question. It seems everyone has a different idea about how to get good imaging and achieve a good soundstage. The enemy in achieving this (assuming your speakers have consistent dispersion in the midrange) is REFLECTIONS from walls. So given that, go into a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused One can easily see that this support model is very different for large public companies with strict product plans and clear cut departments that operate the business vs small engineer owned private companies that pursue new ideas and build what mi... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @texbychoice I have some comment on your post 1) " every speaker passive or active is designed to a price point". Absolutely not true! I can tell you as fact that many products are engineered and then the manufacturer/engineering department fig... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @invalid Okay, I get that nothing is really colorless. But what path offers lower color? Active or passive? | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @invalid Amps are the same? Where did anyone say that? Sounds like you are pulling in a different argument io you don’t have to listen to these ideas anymore. In this thread we have good examples of both onboard and outboard amp active systems.... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude Wise comments about purity. It is absolutely true that not everyone prefers the active version of a well executed design. I sometimes wonder if posting in favor of active makes people think there is no alternative. I've done t... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Audiophiles clearly care about speaker wire a lot, there's a huge industry built around it. Somehow all the wire inside a passive speaker's crossover is just forgotten about. When the differences in wire are so widely accepted, I can't imagine h... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @pcrhkr My question is not that you bought a great amp and speaker, but that you are listening not to the speaker, but mostly wire. IF anyone realized how much wire is in a good LF inductor, then additional wire in the other inductors for midrange... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused How could a Harmon company abandon these and not support them? Are these very old? From my little corner, I’ve never seen an ATC amp failure we could not repair. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused donavabdear What a great experience! Wow. Brad | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home @rsf507 curious if companies did home demos then why need a dealer network? Are you suggesting a company that is located in CA ship a speaker to someone in FL then fly out to do the setup? I would imagine this type of scenario would raise the p... | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home Home demos are such a conundrum. The speaker/room influence interaction is so dramatic that no two rooms sound the same so the speakers will sound different in each of those rooms. I like @sounds_real_audio idea of a dealer visit. It is true a... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused A lot of system/equipment distortions are amazingly easy to hear with a signal generator with variable frequency and level. We use these to check for driver distortion during the recone process. That would be a good place to start and being simple... |