martykl
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| Room correcting subwoofer for music? Scott,1) FR = frequency response.2) Can't answer the budget question (it's personal taste), but I will say that a 12" Rythmik or SVS sub with SMS-1 will run $1200, and I think that's money well spent. Some, like Bob, might point out that the full ... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? Scott,Yes.Unless you use DRC, in which case the answer is "maybe".One sub, properly placed will usually produce much smoother bass response than a full range speaker in free space. There may be other issues with this approach(integration, for one)... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? In retrospect, I guess Toetapfactor is right. You asked about the difference between room corrected vs non-room corrected subs for a music and (after mentioning budget issues as a "heads up"), I foolishly outlined a way to directly compare the 2 a... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? One quick correction:I said that the low pass function on the SMS-1 isn't my cup of tea. The low pass (or highcut) for the woofer is actually great. It's the low cut for the mains that doesn't sound great to me (it's also kinda bare-bones with no ... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? Depending on your budget, you might want to try the following approach:App. $1500 buys a pair of 12" Rythmik or SVS subs. I know the Rythmiks are awfully good for music (I use 'em) and suspect that the SVS are, as well (feedback from apparently re... | |
| subwoofer question Lambeau,Not just in theory, but - all other things being equal - in fact. There is one caveat: That group delay is a good measure of "sluggish" (I concede that this is a reasonably big "if").For an interesting test of this question, find the subwo... | |
| Sony Blu-Ray dvd players at Costco for $109 Remeber that Sony's studio arm own a giant catalog of movie titles. Their DVD sales are dying. They're pricing BR players very aggressively in order to spur re-purchases of old titles on the new format. The PS3 has long been sold with a subsidy be... | |
| Audible Illusions Preamp I had a 3A for a while and liked it a lot. I found it to be on the "lush" or "romantic" side of the spectrum and dynamics didn't really make much impression either way (good or bad).I would note that, based on feedback in these forums, AI's custom... | |
| Grant Green's version of 'Round About Midnight Don't know Grant Green or his take on "Round Midnight, but I will check it out. Danny Gatton was all over the place, but his take on "Harlem Nocturne" is just about my favorite guitar piece of any genre. Bill Frisell hybridizes Jazz guitar with a ... | |
| subwoofer question Bob,I prefer to treat the use of the word "faster" as merely a semantic issue, albeit a widespread one. An underdamped woofer settles less quickly ("slower")and produces a bass character that people (I think) call "slow". I suspect that people int... | |
| subwoofer question Off my memmory of comparing these two at audition the sound quality was virtually indistinguishable to my ear. Both sounded very, very good (set up 2 channel with Maggies at a local hi-fi shop). I'm pretty confident that most listeners would find ... | |
| subwoofer question Bob is correct. My previous posts were my attempt to explain why there may be a common idea that a large driver mean larges inertia, means "slow" bass and why that idea may not hold water. I covered the momentum side. Bob closed the loop by explai... | |
| subwoofer question Sorry, Perrew.To clarify:The conceptual design goal of a highly damped subwoofer system is that, once the musical signal is stopped, the system will restrict the tendency of the driver to keep moving. The idea is that momentum is defeated and bass... | |
| subwoofer question Perrew,Just to be clear, box size isn't the key here nor is driver size. The type of box and its size relative to certain mechanical characteristics of the driver determine how highly damped the subwoofer system will be. For instance, a 10" woofer... | |
| subwoofer question It's hard to speculate as to what will work in any given space, although Bob's point is a good one:Smaller rooms are generally tougher all around.You tried the full range EQ and determined that it was "clearly worse", so we now know that this appr... |