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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Crazy Eddie was the discounter. Tech Hi-Fi was the "specialty store". "Harvey Electronics" was the boutiquey store and Lyric was the "vault" that wouldn't let just anyone in to hear the Maggie Tympani.As I recall.Marty | |
| Subwoofer Set up Question To be clear,You can certainly use ONLY the "high cut" function of the internal x-over in the sub to roll off the high end response of the subwoofer without using the "low cut" function of that x-over for your main speakers, per Sid 42. Many people... | |
| Subwoofer Set up Question If you by-pass (defeat) the internal x-over in the sub, you'll be running both the main speakers and the sub full range. They will surely overlap for a few octaves. It is theoretically possible that this will work, but, as a practical matter, it w... | |
| Top 5 Rock n Roll Vocalists Jaybo picked a favorite "sleeper"of mine - "General" Johnson. Great vocals w/ Chairmen of The Board ("Give Me Just a Little More Time")and The Showmen who Allen Toussaint shepherded from doo-wop toward something like rock n roll. The General also ... | |
| Passive sub for Magnepan 3.6r? Duke,I checked that link. If you can get that kind of in-room response (app +/- 4db down to 25hz!) without EQ, my hat's off to you. I've never gotten close in any of my rooms with monopoles, omnis, di-poles, or even bi-poles (Sunfire CRM) until I ... | |
| Driving Magnepan MMG's with 50 wpc Rawson GC Depending on your room size, listening habits, etc, Wendell probably summed it up well. I use actively crossed subs - which reduce power demand from the MMGs - and I still would like just a little more breathing room than my 122 wpc ARC VT 130SE p... | |
| Speakers for a desktop system NHT makes a powered monitor that's pretty much ideal for a desktop system - it's also a great value. The only tubes in this chain, however, would be in your cd player.Marty | |
| Passive sub for Magnepan 3.6r? Duke,Thanks for the reply.My comment re: a dipole = 2 monopoles was intended to illustrate my actual experience measuring such designs in my room. I assume (as you allude to in your post) that the problem with the analogy is that it's frequency de... | |
| Passive sub for Magnepan 3.6r? Duke,At 30,000 feet, I'd agree with every word you said. However...IME, dipole bass doesn't look just like 2 monopoles. True, the deep suckouts are dramatically reduced as they would be with a pair of monopole bass generators, but smaller suckouts... | |
| speakers with a "smooth" impedance curve Trelja,I tend to agree with your point regarding excess energy in the presence region - sometimes it seems to me that it's almost ubiquitous in high end loudspeaker designs. But... I've never particularly associated this with models that cross to ... | |
| sub wiring question Stick,The high pass filter (AKA - the low cut filter) for the main speakers is fixed @ 80hz, with (IIRC) a 6db/octave slope. This will affect only the low frequency roll off of your main speakers.The low pass filter is variable for both frequency ... | |
| matching amplifer output phase to subwoofer phase IME, the phase (or better, if available, polarity) of the subwoofer should be set to minimize bass cancellation due to reflected energy. One polarity setting will usually provide a much better result than the other. I gather that this result is a ... | |
| Speakers and vacuum tube gear I've owned the Verity Parsifal/Encores for 10 years. They will work very well with many tube amps, but they ARE NOT a specifically tube friendly design. Low power amps, OTLs and SETs may well struggle with the load that the P/E presents them. OTOH... | |
| Mothership - The Inspiration White Stripes started out channelling Zep on their first couple of records. | |
| sub wiring question Duypham,The SMS-1 does 3 or 4 critical things:1) A very flexible low pass crossover - frequency, slope, phase, & polarity all have very fine dgree of control. Some subs have this type of functinality built-in. Very few have this HIGH DEGREE of... |