phusis
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| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? @ozzy62 --... If your speakers are generally of the full range variety, no need to add an additional electronic crossover to the mix. KISS applies here, less electronic artifacts, the better.It depends on the specific set-up and quality of the dig... | |
| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? At a future point will plan to have me built two 10"-loaded PicoWrecker tapped horn subs in addition to the pair of larger 15"-loaded MicroWrecker tapped horn siblings that I already use in my set-up (they share a similar tune), for a quad sub set... | |
| Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo? @emergingsoul --Do you use a Subwoofer when listening to stereo?I do, very successfully, and god (or, that is: the DBA-inquisition) forbid only two of them. They're tapped horns taking up 20 cubic feet per cab, and tuned just below ~25Hz. Low-pass... | |
| Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? Have speakers really improved within the last 20 years?? The subject title is a perfectly valid question, although the "irrefutable truth" aspect - of the party either for or against - is likely a more dubious matter. I’m not saying criteria could... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? @goose --I have listened to systems from $100K to $800K in different and well designed rooms. My biggest take away has been, gee they sound really good but to me it's amazing how little you can spend and get really good, satisfying sound in a wel... | |
| Great review on HORNS Symphony Loudspeaker for you "aficionado's" of horn speakers Review link:http://v2.stereotimes.com/post/horns-symphony-loudspeakers-by-mike-wright/ | |
| Beyond Boutique Speakers Appreciated your clarification of "boutique," Erik. I'd add Simon Mears Audio to that (smaller) list.. | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker Simon Mears Audio.Of note: quite a few speaker brands mentioned here that have nothing to do with "boutique." Let's sharpen them pencils, please. | |
| Recommendations for electronic crossover. @dhl93449 --... So that confirms that the active XO system has merit in principle, and the class A discrete designs in practice. Thanks for the follow-up, and good to learn that your active XO project has come through successfully. From my chair t... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Mr. Karsten --One obvious advantage is that with four subs for a given volume as opposed to two, each driver will have less excursion. All things being equal, yes, but my advocacy with pairs of subs (or even more of them) is using very large subs ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world IME what this often means has something to do with sound pressure. That's certainly the potential of a scaled-up sub system (i.e.: added SPL capacity through bigger air radiation area/higher sensitivity/ability to take more power and larger over... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @atmasphere Uh... it is.The size of the subs *has* been taken into consideration by Duke of Audiokinesis and that is the beauty of his system. His subs are 1 foot square by 2 feet (using a 10" driver), which is fairly small as subs go, yet they g... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @dannad -- Whether I am knowledgeable with your specific setup, I am very knowledgeable about how difficult it is to match the phase response of two completely different speakers, with two different amplification chains, and potentially with some ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @dannad -- You lost me at "phase aligned by ear" as I know that is impossible. Not difficult, but impossible as you must have equal slopes on both (after applying high/low pass) including the amps, crossovers if they exist, speakers, etc. It’s har... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world @dannad -- In my experience, this arrangement tends to create far more issues than it solves, specifically because of what you mentioned, spectral leakage. For this to work, your speakers need to be phase aligned across the whole shared frequency ... |