phusis
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| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @mihorn wrote: If you don’t have a live recording of your own, please let me know you think/believe/heard the best sounding large speaker in the world. Or may be the closest sounding system to your system. I’ll count it as your system. It is OK ... | |
| Speaker Efficiency @mikelavigne wrote: i’m not always the biggest Harley fan with his tendency toward hyperbole.....but in this case he nailes it. a quick read worth your time. I fully agree - on all mentioned. | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @mihorn wrote: I see your system and I understand why you believe that. Then I want to hear the truth. Do you have a live recording of your system online? Alex/Wavetouch I don't, and if you want the "truth" it would hardly be the proper approa... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @mahgister wrote: It is possible to enjoy an immersive inclusive soundstage engulfing the listener with swmall speakers .. I know it because i enjoy it ... @mihorn wrote: I agree with him saying “Every speaker above 50 Hertz is a small spea... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @daveyf -- Indeed, we listen for different things in our setups. That’s as it should be, or certainly that’s how it is. As I mentioned previously I’ve listened to the Guarneri’s at a couple occasions, and they’re very good speakers, I find - rela... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @daveyf wrote: While the speakers I had the pleasure of hearing definitely seemed to not portray what I felt were the same level of specific detail and intimacy that other smaller systems I have heard can; I do agree that a generalization cannot... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @daveyf wrote: My point though with regards to very large speakers like these is that even with a large enough room, and room treatments, I think the overall sound will be unlike what hears in a ‘live’ setting, due to the seeming inability of sp... | |
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? @daveyf -- When you describe the sound of the mega $$ system you’re referring to as "somewhat larger than life," then what do you gather is your predominant reference here - live acoustic sound, or mainly the sound presented by your own setup? I... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @mijostyn wrote: And just how are you correcting amplitude 1 Hz at a time? It is not down the road for me. You can do it in an automated fashion or manually including programing delays. I start with automated then fine tune manually. I find it b... | |
| Subwoofers: Ported or sealed? @ghdprentice wrote: I actually had 4 B&W subs. Two for my audio system and two for my home theater. After I got these speakers I got rid of them. First I was very happy with the bass and coherence and I was liking less stuff taking up space.... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @mijostyn wrote: There is no such thing as a "lossless" digital volume control. Some units may revert to an analog volume control. But, even the best digital volume controls lose bits as the volume goes down. It is just that the really fast proc... | |
| Subwoofers: Ported or sealed? @ghdprentice wrote: Home theater is completely different… you want to rattle your windows. But for 2 channel audio it is really easy to do more damage than good and detailed discussions about sub woofer output bring up concerns of over use of su... | |
| Speakers 10 years old or older that can compete with todays best, @mijostyn -- I use a digital source only, my DAC/preamp sports a lossless digital volume control (i.e.: no effective loss of bits at lower volumes; it's also the preferred volume control option over JRiver MC31's internal digital ditto), and a di... | |
| Horns with good timbre and tonality? @audiokinesis -- Thanks for your elaborations - very illuminating. In your previous post, on which horn type in particular could facilitate a proper reflection field, you wrote: ... Ime what works well is a constant-directivity horn which does... | |
| Subwoofers: Ported or sealed? @jaytor -- It would be interesting to experiment with a pair of open baffle subs in a 2nd listening space and setup - they seem like a very capable design, not least as an overkill i.e.: über-sized option. 180Hz low-pass should be plenty enough t... |