martykl
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| How far can room treatments solve boomy bass? My understanding is that the PARC is an analog variation of room EQ. Audysey, ARC et al work in the digital domain. I'm not sure whether PARC includes an RTA function (room analyzer), but if it doesn't you'll probably use a stand-alone RTA for set... | |
| Accurate speakers for a verity of genres? The Rythmiks offer a damping control which allows (a little) control over how "tight" the bass response is. When set for highest damping, the response in the sub's upper regions is (pardon the pun) tight as a drum. One test number that is sometime... | |
| What is the ideal room size for the old MBL 101 IMO, you're probably right at the margin.This speaker generates a lot of bass and is -to my ear- voiced to sound best in a very large space. Your room is somewhat smaller than you'd prefer, so you might well have to do some work (room treatments) ... | |
| How far can room treatments solve boomy bass? In the 3 listening room that I've measured, Hemholtz devices like the tube trap/bass trap can be reasonably effective down to a little below 100hz. In an untreated room, you'll often see a hump in the half octave above that point. I've been pretty... | |
| Accurate speakers for a verity of genres? A few points to clarify:I mentioned the Carver CRM a few times in my posts. They're actually Sunfire (Bob Carver's second company) CRMs. I didn't see any available here, but these:http://app.audiogon.com/listings/sunfire-crs-3-cinema-ribbon-trio-s... | |
| Accurate speakers for a verity of genres? Re: integrating Maggies/subsPer Phasecorrect, this is a notoriously tricky task. I agree that trying to set this up by ear may end up a really frustrating exercise.However, the SMS-1 provides a video readout from a mic that you set at the listenin... | |
| Accurate speakers for a verity of genres? My recommendation was based on your taste in music, which appears to put unusual emphasis on the bottom octaves - relative to...say, a folk music enthusiast. In this case, a sub sat system will IMHO offer the best bang for the buck. Your note that... | |
| Accurate speakers for a verity of genres? One more idea:$600 will buy a pair of Magnepan MMGs$1150 will buy a pair of SVS sealed subwoofers$400 will buy a Velodyne SMS-1 subwoofer management system (it corrects the subwoofer response for room induced effects, fine tune the top end roll-of... | |
| mainstream sleeper audio products.... One more call for Audyssey (or similarly auto x-over/Digital Room Correction enabled) electronics if good results from a sub/sat system are desired without real time/effort of set-up. The Harman Kardon HK 990 amp is a good alternative to an AVR in... | |
| One sub or two? If you cross over to the subs very high (>100hz to 150hz), there are 3 very clear POTENTIAL benefits to a pair of subs vs. a single sub. However, the key word is "potential" and the ability to realize that potential will depend upon - among a f... | |
| Frequency Response? It's an interesting question, and while I'm not an EE, here's my understandiing of how it works (for a dynamic/cone woofer):The woofer is a system composed of 4 main parts; a cone, an electric motor attached to that cone, a box housing that cone, ... | |
| Small wall-mount speaker recommendations? The littlest guy in the Vienna Acoustics Schoenberg line-up (IIRC, it's called the Berg) might work. However, I think that it's priced right at the upper limit of your budget and will require a subwoofer.I've also used the Gallo, pre Timrhu's reco... | |
| Bass amp for a tri-amped system? I'd certainly encourage you to give it a try. IMHO, it's a night and day kind of improvement that returns a crazy bang for the buck. Not everyone will agree, but the good news is that you can always ship it back for a refund if you decide that it ... | |
| Bass amp for a tri-amped system? I believe that these devices use a similar idea to the Copeland (which I've never heard), but the distinction (I assume) here is that either of these units will sit between your active x-over and the bass amp only. The rest of the system's bandwid... | |
| Is anyone thinking about building Walsh drivers? Okay Dale,I may have failed some kind of IQ test here, but I just followed my own link (above, in a previous post I made to this thread) and don't see any reference to a TLS 5 hybrid on your site. You have definitely peaked my curiosity here, but ... |