phusis
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| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? For a large space like the one initially lined out by the OP (or be that even a smaller ditto), serving home theater duties to boot, I'd wager to keep the thing of it all the most "musical" - i.e.: with low distortion, effortless and smoothly dist... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often Good topic, Erik. A difficult speaker load is created foremost by its passive crossover, more so really than (a purer load) low impedance and low sensitivity as a function of the drivers sans passive XO. Combining higher sensitivity, higher drive... | |
| Biamping Seems there’s some confusion over what bi-amping entails. Two amps, yes, but configured how? There’s passive bi-amping, and then there’s active bi-amping - the latter goes without saying, because you need more amp channels running speakers activel... | |
| What is your experience with amp power? @mulveling wrote: ... When dealing with say L/R channel imbalances, you can certainly notice down to a third of a decibel, at least. Indeed. My Xilica digital crossover/DSP has gain adjustment in 0.25dB increments, and occasionally I wish 0.10... | |
| Horn speakers with Imaging? Nice seeing S.P. Tech (by Bob Smith) mentioned by @audiokinesis, although back in ’05 now. I owned a pair of their Timepiece MkIII model around 2010. Two friends of mine still use the Revelation model in their respective setups, one running the Re... | |
| Question about Active Bi-amping @jay73 -- Active bi-amping, for the term to make sense at least, requires bypassing the passive cross-over and moving instead this part to function prior to amplification on signal level as a DSP or electronic XO for direct amp-driver control. As... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 wrote: Shane Lee was saying that the three ton riser they were sitting on was lifted by that beast. I think you could see the stunned look on peoples faces in the demo, like they just saw Jaws in real life. That’s some immense air shift... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kota1 -- Cool video. It's the first time I've heard of 21" drivers being referred to as "kick subs," but it makes sense looking at that 80" beast of an über infrasonics woofer..! | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @thespeakerdude wrote: Have you been following what I said I do? Speakers for professional applications? Do you think that just means studio speakers? @donavabdear mixes for movies where you are trying to "recreate" real dynamic events. And yo... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @donavabdear wrote: As far as dynamic correctness, hard to answer that i don’t think there is any speaker that can reproduce thunder or a real symphony because no microphone can record it, even our ears don’t treat dynamics as opposed to transie... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused @kingharold — We know the answer to the part of your post prior to “DSP crossed over …” That is, they remain unresponsive here because they’d have to give us an admission, but if pressed they will likely counter thar the traits pointed out by you... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? @herbreichert wrote: I know what "coaxial" means but how are you defining "concentric"? Are you suggesting that two coaxial drivers (i.e. their voice coils) may me mounted at an angle to each other? That they are centered but not perpendicular? ... | |
| But is it HiFi? (Crown) @ditusa wrote: If you like the way it sounds that’s all that matters. +1 In my opinion. The Crown Studio Reference 1 amp is the best sounding amp Crown made for reproducing audio playback. All the power you will ever need in a home hi fi rig... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? Some of the most successful implementations of a point source I've heard (which is what coaxial comes down to, being a point source - certainly over a relatively wide frequency span, if not most of it) is the Synergy horn by Tom Danley and TAD's C... | |
| Stratospheric audio gear prices @roxy54 wrote: Sorry to tell you @electroslacker , but $20,000 isn’t all that much for an engagement ring anymore for a lot of people. Oh, the trinkets. To each their expenditure. |