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| Size of Midrange Drivers Bombaywalla --I have a fair bit of world-wide listening experience & have listened to a lot of speakers (& a lot of electronics) yet to but yet to have a positive experience of a 12" midrange playing midrange. If you look at my systems I d... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Johnnyb53 --...Finally, the name of the game isn't just radiating area; it's air displacement. A 4.5" driver has a radiating surface of 15 sq. inches. My Mag 1.7s have a radiating surface of 456 sq. inches. Yet, a premium 4.5" midrange might have ... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Bombaywalla -- To reiterate from an earlier response of yours (to the OP):The Tannoy Kingdom Royal has NO MIDRANGE driver contrary to what you seemed to allude to.Their new HF compression driver tweeter is doing all the midrange. Like you seemed t... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Bombaywalla --What's to learn, exactly - that 12" units can't do midrange? To clarify: 700Hz er certainly part of the midrange (indeed the lower part of the central mids), and voices typically contain a lot of energy even lower in the frequency sp... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Some of the more important reasons why we rarely see midrange drivers above, or even approach 7-8" in the typical regime of "hifi" speakers seem dictated by the use of direct radiating dome tweeters and their lack of <2kHz handling, as well as ... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? In recent months, I have had several audio acquaintances return to CDPs claiming improved SQ versus their highly optimized computer transports (SS drives, external power supplies, etc, etc).Agear --My findings are the complete opposite, and can su... | |
| How to power down a Nuforce DAC-9 by remote? Utrxdlr --I have the NuForce DAC-9 myself, and it's been running 24/7 for about 3 years now. Possibly being a bit blunt about this, but still: except any worries one might have about power consumption, a specified meager 9 watts - at most, what is... | |
| Why did you choose a horn based loudspeaker? Johnk --Thank you for initiating this thread. In response to some of the comments above: horn and waveguide-based speakers span many varieties and combinations, just like direct radiating speakers, perhaps even more so; it would seem rather ignora... | |
| The End Of Big Iron? I had a Class D amp. I didn't care for it and it ran out of gas early and overheated. To be fair, it was a mass produced Onkyo, and it's probably not the ultimate in Class D design. Right now, I have an A/B amp; the sound is good, but not phenomen... | |
| Wanting to simplify my system ...... Chris_launder --If "tube magic" is what you're somehow after, without wanting to go with tubes, I'm not so sure bi-polar driven amps is the best solution - generally speaking. I'd probably keep the sonic signature as a main priority, and then cons... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Herb --Thanks for your comments. Your findings on by-passing the VTL preamp are interesting, and overall are impressions I share with the direct-route in my own, albeit different setup. It goes to show there are sonically very worthwhile combinati... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Mapman -- YEs, but the question is, why?I can see how the proper eletronic mating might be trickier with a passive, but I cant see a disadvantage if done right, other than that various active pres might provide more flavors of sound to please more... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Hi George Thank you for your comments and corrective remarks on my use of the term 'preamp.' Not to appear too apologetic I'm guessing I intended to use the term as a means to address the effort made with the analog output stage of the BCA Roquefo... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system An audio-friend of mine has always found it better not to use a separate hardware preamp in his setups, especially since his latest DAC/preamp (the Danish developed/manufactored Blue Cheese Audio Roquefort http://www.studiosound.dk/cddac/roquefort... | |
| "Against design" Mr. Weiss' follow-up to "Against design" - "Art vs. furniture:"... audio design is much like furniture, in that the relationships between form and function are easily convoluted. We live with these things in our homes, surrounded by other domestic... |