lonemountain
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| Good quality wireless, active speakers ?? The secret to Sonos is using wifi for transmission, not bluetooth (which is mostly short range line of sight). There are not many credible wi fi music systems used out there beyond Sonos (Yamaha Musicast?). Sonos is improving and pursuing higher d... | |
| Types of speakers to create nightclub style sound? Listen to davidbrinknyc- he's the one with the right idea. Funktion One dominates the club business worldwide and QSC is a quality company building good sounding alternatives for less money. | |
| Should I switch to a larger room? Larger rooms are almost always better unless something very unique is wrong with the large room. Why are they usually better? Boundaries are further away! Brad | |
| How bad is it to place 5.1 rears from behind rather than on the sides? You are so close to a nice 7.1 set up with all 7 speakers on stands. All you need do is pull the couch forward and little, enough for speakers to be as they are in in your first figure, behind you. a bit wider than your L/R pair. 5.1 to 7.1 is add... | |
| Best midranges... The ATC mid dome is a very unique and high performance part. With a motor larger than 99% of midrange drivers, a dual suspension for linear behavior even at higher levels, short coil long gap for low distortion, sealed so enclosures volumes don’t ... | |
| ATC and Loki I wont deny that it could be proper gain staging that affects the signal chain in some set ups. | |
| ATC and Loki Outside of Fletcher Munson, there is no reason a system should so different within its power bandwidth. I think a lot of the impressions one gets of a system sounding different with level is really related to distortion, power compression or misma... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. PragmasI actually misread your post. I thought you said a passive crossover works at low voltage, and the rest was in support of that. My mistake and I apologize. Brad. | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. pragmas: signal processing at speaker level is a WHOLE different animal than at line level. Heat is the lowest issue compared to the rest of the losses and lack of phase control. Have you seen a proper passive crossover, how much copper is involve... | |
| Blindfold Speaker testing High sensitivity would most likely affect your perceptions if the demo or comparison was not precisely level calibrated. Even 1/2 dB of additional [SPL] output is enough to COMPLETELY convince you one speaker sounds better than another. You'd pu... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. While nearly everyone in this hobby admits that the cable makes a difference everywhere it is used in the system, how is it that here, between amp and driver, it doesnt make any difference? Isnt that up there with all cable sounds the same and all... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. There is a lot of misinformation in this thread. Fiesta 75 has it pretty close, active means "amplifiers AFTER the crossover connected directly to the driver". Nothing about digital, or analog or amps inside or outside. If you see how much copper ... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component LMA: Efficiency is NOT the only thing that matters in engines or drivers.Phusis: And yet it's rarely prioritized or recognized as even ONE of the core parameters in speaker engineering. Lone Mountain: Who on earth told you that? That's not true. ... | |
| Does Hannah Reid of London Grammar have the most captivating voice today? I've been using "Hey Now" for demo since it came out. Its a nice recording too, not a crowded or dense mix. Like Fleetwood Mac Rumours, it is a very open mix and its easy to identify all the [well recorded] instruments. Brad | |
| Speakers The single most critical component Mozart fanI think reducing an evaluation down to one aspect - efficiency- of the many issues to consider is not the idea. Its like saying you'll only consider a car that gets over X miles per gallon as a proper car. What if you want a sports car?... |