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| What is the most overlooked consideration? @devinplombier wrote: I do agree with this approach. In addition to the benefits you cited, you can match amplification with frequency range; for instance, those old Bryston monoblocks you have laying around will do great on bass duty, leaving y... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? One of the most overlooked considerations, from my chair, is the amp to driver interfacing, starting with getting rid of the passive crossover between the amp and speaker/its drivers. That naturally necessitates doing the crossover duties prior to... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @cooper52 -- I use subs in my setup that "meet up" with high-passed main speakers, but they’re all outboard actively configured via the same DSP/digital crossover, mains + subs, and thus high-passing the mains isn’t an extra measure per se. Rathe... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @gtscott wrote: I had a system where I eliminated the passive crossovers and replaced them with a digital crossover, The biggest improvement I have heard over my 30 years doing this. Passive crossovers are using energy from the signal to create ... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @larryi wrote: A local builder uses quite sizeable horns and compression drivers that can go extremely low. I recently heard a system where the crossover from compression midrange to woofers was set at 180 hz with a very shallow 6 db/octave slo... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @devinplombier wrote: I strongly suspect that I couldn’t live happily with speakers that are down 6 dB at 55 Hz (JBL’s spec), but I respect those who see beyond that. An additional caveat is that I have not auditioned the K2, and I am open to th... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @ozzy62 wrote. Ok folks, you heard this genius. Sell your horns. I was about to reply to poster @secretguy on his horn statement, in all earnesty, but yours is better, and not least funnier :) @deep_333 wrote: I have heard the Meyer bluehor... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @saummisra -- Look for a pair of used Meyer Sound X-10’s. They’re active speakers and are about the best that can be had in the 15" woofer/midrange + horn/waveguide class of speakers out there. That’s including the JBL M2, K2 S9900, Everest’s etc... | |
| What are your opinions of DSP's for speakers As has been stated already, DSP is an abbreviation of Digital Signal Processing, and it can be implemented in different ways for different purposes. Most here refer to it as a means for digital room correction in listening environments with troubl... | |
| I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah! @erik_squires -- Exciting project. Lets stop talking about subwoofers and talk about this project as a new 3-way speaker system. Instead of thinking of adding a subwoofer and crossing around 40-80Hz I’m now thinking 150 - 300 Hz. [...] A... | |
| New Klipsch Klipschorn AK7 & La Scala AL6 will be active DSP Crossover @mrdecibel wrote: horn loading a sealed woofer? I do not understand. My AR 3a pair have a sealed woofer system. My best, MrD. The 15" woofer in your La Scala’s is placed in a sealed chamber from where the front wave of the woofer cone fires in... | |
| New Klipsch Klipschorn AK7 & La Scala AL6 will be active DSP Crossover It appears Klipsch is mimicking the same type of bass loading with the new La Scala AL6 that they're using in the actively configured Jubilee version that saw the light a day a few years ago, with the goal to squeeze out some extra extension from ... | |
| Stereophile reviews the active Grimm LS1C @erik_squires wrote: Based on the driver sizes, this makes sense. It’s great they can bring the bass down to below 20 Hz but physics are unforgiving. They can’t possibly get to 20Hz with a tiny module in a large space. That’s just it, but t... | |
| Stereophile reviews the active Grimm LS1C I've heard the active Grimm speaker system (incl. the sub module) at a couple of occasions, and what has struck me with their sound fairly consistently is the coherency, tonal authenticity, balance, resolution and relative ease of presentation. Th... | |
| New Klipsch Klipschorn AK7 & La Scala AL6 will be active DSP Crossover @devinplombier wrote: I (largely) agree with you on this subject. I’ve auditioned high-end active setups and found that they sounded wonderful. A conundrum and bottleneck of sorts is the DSP unit. As you pointed out, quality is important. Relat... |