phusis
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| Starting a second system, need efficient speaker suggestions. @traudio wrote: ... Current speakers are Magnepan 3.7i with a Hegel H390 integrated. I'd like to try the other side of the audio coin, tubes and higher sensitivity speakers. Those are very capable main speakers that you currently have. If yo... | |
| Geddes multiple subwoofer method - 3 subs vice 4 @rauliruegas wrote: Velodyne ( at least my HGS, not the DD models with Kevlar driver. ) were made for MUSIC sound reproduction systems and not HT where needs are different and especially on SPL. Velodyne, REL and whatever else don't hold a mon... | |
| Geddes multiple subwoofer method - 3 subs vice 4 @audioquest4life wrote: I feel like the Geddes approach for sub integration closely resembles what I have been doing for years without even knowing this method. So, my 18” deep bass and 15” mid bass drivers on the field coil speakers become part... | |
| Geddes multiple subwoofer method - 3 subs vice 4 @rauliruegas wrote: That’s why THD in the bass range is just so critical due that high THD levels as the JTR ( that are for HT not MUSIC: ) subs afects all the whole MUSIC frequency range system due that the different bass frequency ranges devel... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @rauliruegas wrote: Well , that large size is not exactly typically " because depends on the kind of drivers other than horns and an example are my ADS speakers that yes are " large size " but the size is due that the speakers can goes down to 1... | |
| Help with XLR ICs. I’d recommend XLR IC’s based on Mundorf’s Silver/gold solid core wires (i.e.: 99% silver + 1% gold). I use their wires as both speakers cables (1mm variant for the lower midrange on up) and XLR IC’s (0.5mm). Sonically I would describe them as the... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @atmasphere wrote ... it may interest you to know that high efficiency drivers, in particular woofers can be 10x more expensive than drivers of similar bandwidth and power handling that are not efficient. As an example the TAD 1602s (15", 97dB, ... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @lonemountain wrote: Again: efficiency is just ONE aspect out of many that has to be addressed in high performance loudspeaker design. But who's claiming high efficiency is the only or single most important parameter worth pursuing to best ach... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @atmasphere wrote: ... you’ll find, if you look, that most producers of higher efficiency speakers tend to use tube amps. Being few of these designs are vintage, or so I suspect, it hardly reflects a strict need for a particular driver-amp typ... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @atmasphere wrote: The issue is that most amps made using feedback, which includes high power solid state amps, is that the output transistors usually limit the design's Gain Bandwidth Product, resulting in a loss of feedback at high frequencies... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @invalid -- That's not to say it can't be great match sonically. | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @atmasphere wrote: I look at it this way- if you can’t drive it well with 100 Watts (in most rooms), its a problem. +1 ... and 1000 Watt amps that sound like music don’t seem to exist although class D is getting close with amps that can make... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @lonemountain wrote: When you say that efficiency is not the most important aspect of performance ... I wrote it’s "not the only" important aspect. These last ~15 years I’ve avoided low efficiency speakers as anything I’d consider buying (with... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @lonemountain -- The question is, certainly to me, what we’re actually disagreeing on here. My remarks above were aimed specifically at the parameters brought up by you, namely distortion, dynamic range and "better bass," and I’ll maintain that h... | |
| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? @lonemountain wrote: ... If you are more open minded and are wiling to look at moderate efficiency speakers in the mid 80s, using the wide array of excellent high power amplifiers available, or active speaker configurations, you can have your lo... |