phusis
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| Pulled from old theater @doyle3433 -- Hello all, last week I lugged home items from a long retired theater. Former adult theater, that was once a first run theater.. but I digress. Essentially a big horn on top and a 15" driver mounted in a folded cabinet. Altec crossov... | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? @mijostyn -- I would feel free in saying the vast majority of us do not have the room for subwoofer horns. Maybe so. And yet; if you have the allocated space anyway it seems to me the sheer will to do it is the predominant factor, unless the ho... | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? @tony1954 - My only question would be, why?Unless I am watching a battle scene from Avatar or Midway, the last thing I want is bass that is disproportional to the way it was recorded. I believe I understand what the OP is after, that "inside your... | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? @mijostyn -- You do not need to resort to huge drivers to get the best bass. They take up way too much room when you factor in the enclosures they require.Today’s subwoofers are way more powerful than drivers of old. Their Xmax is much higher, up ... | |
| Stuck at home? Make a speaker or something for goodness sake! Using actively configured speakers with digital cross-overs and setting this up is my kind of “DIY,” and being that my pro cinema speakers are modular, i.e.: they can be used with different midrange/HF horns on top, it’s another variable to be exp... | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? @larryi -- Scanspeak makes some fairly expensive paper coned woofers. I don't think they think that paper is crap. A local dealer that builds its own custom speakers just finished a pair that utilizes 15" paper coned drivers from Scanspeak. Th... | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? As long as you live in an apartment, and this is an assumption on my part, what you ask for is a pipe dream. If you can " feel" the bass, your neighbor can too.Move into a house ...+1@yukispier -- Actually I am just trying to be a courteous home o... | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? I prefer high efficiency 15" woofers with paper cones (most if not all of this segment of drivers use paper cones anyway), preferably crossed not much higher than in the 500Hz vicinity - horn-loaded if possible or in duals (per channel) as direct ... | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? @gs5556 -- Not true at all. "Paper" tends to denote taking the cheap way out but is in fact a complicated mess of fibers, polymers, resins etc., engineered for light weight (has to react quickly), high rigidity (prevents deformation) and longevit... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @mijostyn -- Theoretically, active loudspeakers could be amazing...until you add in the profit motive. I have not heard one yet that amazed me. Profit motive? I’ve heard so much bland passively configured that it tires the mind, and the by compari... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @audioquest4life -- I don’t know if spending time going active, researching amps and/DSPs, measuring each change is worth my time and effort when I have such really great satisfying results with my non active speakers. Granted, I have measured in... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @andy2 --It seems pretty complicated the way you described it.With passive, there’s nothing to setup. You just hook to the amp and that’s about it. You're asking for conflicting things here:The way most would approach active, i.e.: as a bundled pr... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @andy2 -- Active has some good advantages, but the complexity and the inflexibility make them not worth the trouble. That’s why a majority of speakers are and will still be passive. Actives as bundled packages aren't complex, on the contrary. The... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @georgehifi -- As with analog active xover in the mids and highs, you’ll have at least a dozen more opamps pots, switches powersupplies interconnects etc etc in the signal path, and to me the that’s opposite of what you just said, there’s more di... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @seadogs1 -- I have been looking at several active loudspeakers, Heavenly soundworks, Buchardt, and, and KEF LS50 wireless II. Any thoughts on these or are there others you think are better? Thanks!!!Bundled active speakers such as ATC come recomm... |