phusis
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| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” No proper horn is shouty. Cheap undersized poorly designed horns over a ported box can have issues since midrange is so much more efficient most compromised to make them smaller cheaper. A proper horn is fully front horn loaded to at least 100hz... | |
| Do active speakers have high THD amplifiers? @ashoka --... My question is which audiophile active speakers have better amplifier specifications. Active, bundled speakers are often claimed to have "matched" amp-to-driver implementation, but much of this is a gimmick, I find. With active co... | |
| Adding Home Theater To 2 Channel System I'd replicate the advice/sentiment shared already and forego a center channel. If ever that route would have to be taken the only true solution would be 3 equal front speakers, period, but then you'd need a perforated screen + projector for that t... | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt @atmasphere --...I have a lower powered Radio Shack amp that sounds fine as long as you don’t push it hard. It tends to make the 2nd harmonic as its primary distortion product and that masks a good deal of the higher orders. But at higher volume l... | |
| Buying used: how old is too old? Looking at a pro/studio speaker manufacturer like ATC they’re pretty much unchanged and cut from the same piece of cloth for more than 4 decades now, the most noteworthy changes being their newer, self-developed tweeter design, the Super Linear ma... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. @djones51 --I prefer the former but I’m not a DIY guy and I don’t want to fry a speaker using the wrong parameters. I know some have used different amps and tweaked the settings for JBL M2’s but setting up actives with DSP crossovers is more than ... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. I'll second poster @fiesta75's first reply above. Active at its core is simply defined by having the cross-over placed prior to amplification and acting on signal level, instead of it receiving the output power from the amp on the receiving end be... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component A lot of things matter, but not all equally - I’d say that goes without saying, or it should. Implementation on the other hand is wholly important. To say speakers are the least important because they’re at the end of the signal chain is just rubb... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component @lonemountain -- Efficiency is NOT the only thing that matters in engines or drivers. And yet it's rarely prioritized or recognized as even ONE of the core parameters in speaker engineering. From product management experience at JBL and with ... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? ... horns are big nd they will own any room you put them in not just because of their size but their appearance also. You could make an argument that my ESLs blend in but, there is no blending in with naked horns. I don't know why one would nec... | |
| At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home? @fiesta75 -- Come on SOME of you. We all know accurate reproduction of a symphony orchestra at home is not possible. End of story. Indeed. Not being able to replicate the live event in a home setting though has been a leeway to an extend that thro... | |
| At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home? @wweiss -- I ask again, can we at this time reproduce accurately the power of a symphony orchestra in the home? The "power" of a live full scale symphony orchestra is very much about a sum of things and as such a composite term, so much indeed t... | |
| To horn or not to horn @larryi -- My speakers are 99 db/w efficient. The midrange compression driver has considerably higher efficiency, which is why I have an L-Pad to reduce its output to match that of the woofers. I really like the sound of the 713b driver.My loca... | |
| To horn or not to horn @larryi -- The term "horn" speaker actually covers a pretty wide range of speaker types. When I think of horn speakers, I usually think of systems with compression midrange drivers attached to a horn waveguide. But, like the Viking speakers mentio... | |
| Best Digital Interface @hgeifman -- The answer is very simple. You have to listen to your system, using various cable connections and decide what sounds best to you. There is no correct answer for everyone. +1I decided on a music streamer with BOTH USB and AES/EBU ... |