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| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? @bobbydd wrote: I’m not referring to maximum loudness or volume, rather that the music sounds less reproduced and more that the instrumentation and vocals are more real sounding through higher sensitivity speakers. Is this a real phenomenon? Or... | |
| JBL 4367 = Sleep Denervation @jheppe815 -- +1 @james633 wrote: there is almost no information comparing these very large subs other than home theater applications and I don’t trust those opinions as their wants are far different from mine. It is hard to say how something ... | |
| PS Audio Aspen FR20: Planar Floorstanding Speakers @markalarsen wrote: Look at the strange shadows on the wall to the right of the speakers. What were they thinking? [chuckles] Yep, that pretty much sums up the level of quite a few of the replies here. | |
| What Horn loaded speaker/ speaker system for $10k'ish and under @ditusa wrote: I would look for a used pair of JBL 4435’s. I own a pair, great 3D imaging and wide soundstage. See review below and tech manual for JBL 4435’s: Mike It's been over 30 years ago since I last listened to the JBL 4435's and their... | |
| What Horn loaded speaker/ speaker system for $10k'ish and under @glennewdick -- From what you’ve outlined I’d suggest a pair of (used?) JBL M2’s for active configuration, with a pair of Crown I-Tech 5000HD amps with built-in DSP. To my ears the M2’s are the sonic winners over the other JBL models you’ve menti... | |
| DSP Active Crossover @jaytor -- Kudos for venturing into outboard active configuration (it’s what I do myself). It will be interesting to learn of your findings (if you’re willing to share them) compared to your passively configured main speaker system once you’ve in... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @kota1 wrote: Bryston has a line of active speakers, an outboard crossover that you can BYOA (bring your own amp). I know Bryston makes great amps but I would prefer a Sunfire 7400 or 7401. You can choose their outboard BAX-1 crossover OR (my pr... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @kota1 wrote: It "burns" me when I see a product trashed from an audio "snob" that simply mismatched the speaker to the amp, the cable, or the room. A bundled, active speaker is a preconfigured package drawing in particular on the advantage of... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @kota1 wrote: Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin owned 3 Paragons EACH to listen to their own Master Tapes. Since a Single Paragon is Stereo, they had to be using a Paragon as a single speaker instead of stereo (effectively 6 speakers systems in 3 ca... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @kota1 wrote: My bias/snobbery is that matching an amp and a speaker is a crap shoot and happens to be the most profitable strategy for manufacturers (sell you two products amp + speakers plus an additional set of cables). I think it should go a... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @erik_squires wrote: It's easy to find a tweeter < $50 that's super smooth and clean sounding when it only has to handle 10 W or less, but an entirely different thing when you apply power to it. That's where, IMHO, the adults are separated fr... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often @erik_squires -- My impulse with ATC drivers was to acknowledge their overall excellence first, both sonically and built quality-wise, and thus assuming they’re not cheap. You may be right about them increasing their profit margins doing their ow... | |
| The mistake armchair speaker snobs make too often The last mistake, and this is a doozy, is that the same critics who insist on only custom, in-house drivers, are paying for even cheaper drivers! Makes me think of the argument made by some who’re actually involved in the making of bundled, act... | |
| Superconducting speakers, are they on the way? Would you be first? Does the idea of a hyper-modern material in your stereo excite you? Not really; in the realm of speakers certainly not compared to the importance of physics, implementation and design. We’re exposed already, and have been for decades to the "wo... | |
| Does the DSP in JBL M2/Crown amp diminish the sound quality? Forest for the trees; the iTech DSP acts as the digital crossover for the M2's, and so there's no conventional passive ditto between the Crown amps and the individual JBL drivers - that's a major benefit in itself. Before speculating any further a... |