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| 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 ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world I must have a magic sub. And here I was thinking I had TWO magic subs..@noble100 --Hi, Tim I think there are two types of people as dannard states but I would describe them a bit differently:1. Those that realize we all perceive deep bass tones be... | |
| 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... |