lonemountain
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| Controlling vibration of woofer baskets Cast Frames rather than stamped steel frames. Brad | |
| Making speakers sound tonally similar with an equalizer Issues like phase non-linearity cannot be fixed with an EQ- it usually makes it worse! Measuring and using a parametric to compensate can help response within the room but it cannot fix room problems which are usually at the heart of most of poo... | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? Transducers are the only devices that change energy from one form to another. Most home systems have two of these, speakers and phono cartridges. Loudspeaker/cartridge making requires understanding a full array of disciplines including materials ... | |
| What Recordings Of Yours Did Not Age Well? Genesis! Horrible lack of low end. As though the high pass filter is on at 200-300Hz. Great music horrible production. | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? Interesting that on an audiophile forum, everyone save a few are judging Pet Sounds on how "good" the song writing itself is. The accolades for Pet Sounds have almost nothing to do with the song writing. Pet Sounds was so different in that it did... | |
| 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 |