lonemountain
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| ATC SCM150 (or JBL Synthesis) (or JBL vintage) (or new Klipsch Jubilee) I don't think the preamp needs to be anything specific. One of things I personally love about ATC actives is they sound very different with different inputs. A tube preamp will make them sound very warm and "tube-like". If you want an all tube s... | |
| Review ATC SCM 40 A floorstanders.....finally 9raduaThis is the most recent 40 right? I have no idea how this tweeter could possibly change. This tweeter is ATC’s handmade one, the same design and coil as the more expensive models use. It can dissipate huge amounts of power and keep working. ... | |
| ATC SCM150 (or JBL Synthesis) (or JBL vintage) (or new Klipsch Jubilee) Interesting thread-always interesting to hear what other perspectives are. I am the US importer and Lone Mountain. I am also the US pro importer distributor and have been for 20+ years. I did not always eork for ATC, I spent years at JBL, was t... | |
| Looking for Speaker Input Strange no one mentioned the weak link is ALWAYS the room. Next is always the transducers, front end (phono cartridge) and back end (speakers/headphones). Electronics can make a good system great but i offers far less change than transducers. A cr... | |
| ATC SCM7 or Legacy Studio HD for small living room? The ATC SCM 7 is a good sounding speaker and sounds like their large ones, just with a roll off that occurs higher as its a smaller woofer. The SCM 7 was Billy’s idea of a legacy british hi fi speaker, great midrange, terrific piano and orchestra,... | |
| SPL meter results relative to Magnepan's (supposed?) craving for power/current 45dB ambient SPL sounds completely normal for someone living in the city without special windows. I live on golf course and I just measured 45dB SPL ambient with no TV or radio on in the house, no HVAC. I think the ambient level in many apartment... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Oceanway is a relatively new player to studio monitors, Alan Sides always "built his own" when he owned Ocean Way. He was from the old school days of large format horn loaded 2 ways soffit mounted, a type of speaker most studio people call "bigs"... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Does your comment Sounds_Real_ Audio mean you think a passive crossover is different in a horn vs a direct radiator? Brad | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? This efficiency issue is one "spec" out of many that a designer must balance. All these performance parameters are evidence of the enormous number of trade offs in creating a complete driver/box/electronics design. So designers make their own choi... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Yes JBL M2- Sorry!. | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? There are newer generations of horns that are much better no doubt. But well known to have lower distortion? That gem is not in my physics text book! Maybe I should qualify my comments to apply to normal SPLs in nearfield applications (home au... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? There are decades of scientific research, testing and effort on this subject. Old ideas about horn loading have not been disproven or debunked; rather the audio community, led by science and research, now understands better where horns pay off and... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Focusing on efficiency as a measure of speaker technology or quality is like judging a passenger car based on miles per gallon. MPG does not measure or reflect the quality of seating, the quality of materials in the car, the car's performance, it... | |
| Tweeter Replacement for Acoustic Energy (UK made) - AE2's and AE5's Why would you not trust the manufacturer on what to use with a specific model? Because they cost more? There are hundreds of possible options that are wrong and only one that is right, why not go with the sure thing that the company who built th... | |
| Low-sensitivity speakers — What's special about them? Johnk:"Low-sensitivity some design for such have complex networks or need a small size. But in general, it means cheap low-powered magnets undersized transducers, and cabinets. It means the loudspeaker and owner of such has to purchase a massive p... |