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| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @millercarbon -- FIFY.There is no "if" and, or but. Its excellent, period. You're impervious to views countering yours - not much of a debate in that, only dictation leveled from one to the other. One thing is for sure: you love your own story. ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @millercarbon --... since we all know no one or two subs can ever touch a DBA, then not only do the high-end dealers make money selling you the one sub that can’t work, they get to sell you another. And another. And another. And EQ. And more amp... | |
| seeking ‘HORN’ ideas apart from Klipshc Lascalla @blindjim --A lot of options with horns/high efficiency speaker approach, many of them quite viable and with different strengths and weaknesses. All-horn or horn hybrid? Subs augmented? Passive or active configuration? Some DIY or not? From a cert... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? @noble100 --Thanks for your follow-up. I think we must careful not to make ourselves the judges on the level of ambition and complexity to dictate in this matter, but rather to relevantly pursue the subject of this thread to the fullest extend pos... | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? Indeed, great article. Josh Ricci knows of what he’s writing. I’d go so far to say big subs aren’t only viable for 2-channel music, they’re wholly essential. The effortless quality of very large, preferably efficient subs means the cone(s) move ve... | |
| Old vs New, an experience with Dynaudio. @daros71 -- I Think that if a Steinway grand piano can be tuned in order to make happy 99% of pianists in the world, pianists which hare all deeply committed to the problem of sound, much more as we are, then it should be possible to make a speake... | |
| the dB/octave specification of the crossover? Or, how about going fully active? Buy a digital cross-over from the very high quality likes of Xilica (without costing a fortune), and make slopes, Q’s, delays, gains etc. on the fly, from the listening position. You’ll need extra amps for each pa... | |
| A case for running speakers full range - Tekton Double Impact SE w/ SVS SB16 subs @dtximages -- I see zero effects less dynamics, in fact i feel much more. I feel like the narrative of relieving the amp of the low freq creates more dynamics is probably just a theory created by people who have their speakers set up wrong or are ... | |
| JTR Noesis for music @smodtactical —The JTR’s are interesting for a number of reasons. They’re fairly high efficiency, use very good pro/pro-ish drivers (certainly the mids/tweeter compression driver), are partially horn-loaded, sports a large radiation area, D’Appoli... | |
| the smoothest sounding speaker Smoothness in sound to my ears has equally, if not more to do with lack of smear, low distortion and ease of reproduction. A sibling term could be that of liquidity, and combined these traits are found in particular in well-executed and horn-loade... | |
| JBL 4367 shoutiness remedies? @deckhand --... The issue I bought when I paid for the speakers is a loudly blaring shoutiness in the range of frequencies of the human voice. It can be loud and overpowering even with EQ attenuating the frequencies between 500 and 4khz. I called ... | |
| New JBL Studio Monitors (4349) Coming in September Interesting addition to their very well sounding 4367 and M2. Add that to the new Everest to commemorate their 75th anniversary next year.. | |
| You know you are an Audiophile when: You know you are an Audiophile when: .. you say 'good morning' to your stereo setup (and/or maybe even 'good night'). | |
| speakers for a large room @audiokinesis --... Unfortunately most people have a negative impression of "prosound drivers" due to exposure to harsh PA systems which maximize decibels per dollar. The JBL M2 would be an example of a prosound-driver system which maximizes sound... | |
| You can't have too many bass traps... You can't have too many bass traps...[?] Unequivocally: yes, you can. Too many of them and put the wrong the places they eat away of proper soundstage fill/size and kills overall energy and (natural) liveliness of the sound. It's about strategi... |