lonemountain
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| At a given price point, better to go late vintage or modern? The technology of drivers has advanced so much that new is ALWAYS better if its a properly designed speaker. There are a lot of price oriented product, as people always want a deal, always want better for less, but there are very high end drivers ... | |
| Mounting Speakers On A Furniture Dolly For Mobility It will sound terrible. Anything you put speakers on affects the sound. Anything. In my pro side, people often use road cases on wheels for stands- this sounds awful as the box resonates, the wheels resonate.. Mass is your friend with stands... | |
| Transmission line speakers! One of the coolest transmission lines was the 1929 Stromberg Carlson Radio using a hand made coaxial driver (using a leather surround). | |
| I'm confused - Different music...different speakers? There is such a thing as a good album/music/recording that doesnt sound very good by todays standards. Led Zeppelin for example. Genesis records. Early Motown, Elvis, etc. These older records suffer from low tech recording methods and often errors... | |
| Speaker shootout question -- do you position the same or differently, depending? Any differences between speaker location(s) will enable room to change the outcome [of the comparison]. That’s why multiple speakers on a demo floor are just for visual display. Setting one speaker on top of the other doesnt work either, as tweet... | |
| What makes the biggest difference in sound quality? Transducers (speakers and phono cartridge: these are the areas to focus on most of all. Transducers are the points that transform energy from one to another. (electrical to mechanical/mechanical to electrical). These two processes have the m... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? HIlde45, yes you get it. the challenge is many want to assign "brown" a specific value. Will we all know for certain what color your table is if you call it a "brown"? Saying a speaker is 92dB efficient means zero. Saying its 91dB SPL 1w/1m at 1K ... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? Jim Salk might have built his own "anechoic room". Some passionate engineers do exactly that, build one in their office or their warehouse or factory. They are not necessarily true anechoic, as that is very expensive, but it can give you an idea... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? I would say only 1% of speaker makers have access to an anechoic chamber. And extremely few of those have access to a chamber large enough to work below 100Hz. Even the few that do have chambers use them mostly for research and product development... | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? Do the ATC 150s I sold Mettallica count? Brad | |
| Do the surrounds really need much power I would say its not about bandwidth as much as dynamic range. All the special effects are sent to surround channels and can be QUITE dynamic. Explosions, doors thudding closed, etc. You need significant power to support all these noises they st... | |
| Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room A wide dispersion LCR mounted right to the stone fireplace would work well. From my ATC world, a SCM 12i which has a steel plate to mount to in the back and Adaptive Technology stuff to use as the "arm" to the bracket. This is how studios and po... | |
| Best Speaker Choice for my very "non-audio-friendly" Living Room Actually its not about brand but about following basic room guidelines. Smaller nearfields placed near the listener but far away from the room boundaries is the goal. Having more energy at your [listening] location direct from the speaker vs refle... | |
| Supply chain affecting anyone? Most of the examples of "I got mine fast" are cases of existing inventory. Metal is a problem affecting everyone and the raw material (slugs and blanks etc) come from China. Chances are good they are sitting out a sea. Once existing inventory is g... | |
| Considering ditching 5.1 for a soundbar; suggestions? Why not use the LR thoughput on a surround receiver or preamp to feed your audiophile preamp which feeds your audiophile amp and audiophile L/R speakers? Most of these receivers/preamps are set up to allow pass through in stereo and then those cha... |