phusis
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| JBL Project K2 S9900 Speakers Anyone Know ??? @smodtactical --S9900 and Focal Maestro (and possibly even stella) utopia used are in the same ballpark. Which would you choose?I'd save some money and go with the JBL 4367 - to my ears it can hold its own against the S9900, albeit offering a slig... | |
| Class A Solid State Sound "Getting back to the OP’s original post. Class A circuits ( and we are specifically talking about amplifier output stages here ), just sound smoother, more homogenized, less artificial, more involving, with every attribute of recorded music reprod... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @mijostyn --That is why Howard Johnson made 28 flavors. But, too bad we could not hear each other’s systems.Indeed, re: flavors. And, most definitely - it would be very enlightening listening to each others setups, and find out what words (and sit... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @mijostyn --Phusis, all that is nice but relative to what? We are not trying to blow up the Empire State Building. I believe you missed my point. It’s not about loudness per se, but for loud to be effortlessly loud when needed, emulating to a cert... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @mijostyn --Another issue that bothers me a little is the assumption that horns are more dynamic than other speakers. Horns are more efficient than most other speakers for sure but any speaker can be just as dynamic given enough power and power ha... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @johnk --... The best in horns is fully horn loading and most consider this just a bit to much to pull off. So many of those who claim to have heard a horn system most likely only heard hybrids not full horn loading. Indeed, John. Horn-loading all... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @mrdecibel --But a question for gw _smith. What are you referring to when you say " large mid horn " ? and " that’s an 8 inch bass horn wrapped up in a very small space " ? I am a 50 year Klipsch Heritage veteran ( not an employee ), and I am not ... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @atmasphere --This statement is false. If you encounter a standing wave, it often cannot be fixed with only 2 subs. And it can't be fixed with room correction or room treatment. Now if you **don't** encounter a standing wave then its all good. But... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @noble100 -- I'm not a Bass-Head but I admit I enjoy the bass weight and power that viscerally involves your whole body in the music or ht. I can relate to that - certainly. For bass to be able to be enveloping, effortless and visceral are vital ... | |
| Do audiophiles hate large subwoofers? In audiophilia in general, certainly since the 50’s or so, it appears speaker size (and this naturally includes subs) is more or less everything - that is, the want for limiting size led on by the need for convenience, spousal demands and interior... | |
| Dual vs single sub @audiokinesis --The distributed multi-sub approach has nothing to do with whether or not the mains are highpassed. Those are two separate decisions. I’m probably the one who caused the confusion because I’m a distributed multi-sub advocate but not... | |
| Dual vs single sub @millercarbon --The Ford Motor Company did a study some years ago, to determine what exactly was needed for really good bass. What they found is that below something like 80 Hz the bass on virtually all recordings is mono. I just got my Swarm-base... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? I've chosen a 7th order (42dB/octave) Linkwitz-Riley low-/high-pass at 80Hz for my tapped horn subs and all-horn mains via a Xilica XP-3060 digital XO - it's simply what sounds the best. Previously I ran my mains full-range with a single SVS SB16-... | |
| Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass? @vtvmtodvm --...The "distributed array" concept is worthy with one notable exception: It generally (?) recommends leaving the main speakers UNfiltered. While that can be beneficial with respect to reducing low frequency room mode response, it igno... | |
| Best multi-purpose subwoofer @ghulamr --I believe you made a sensible choice with the JL Audio F112. Never heard/felt it, but from what I’ve read it’s a very powerful and accurate sub that extends below 20Hz, so something along the lines of REL-territory musicality with the a... |