seasdiamond
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| Do $2k speakers + DSP = $50k speakers? Assuming DSP is used to correct an already well measuring speaker to overcome room acoustics, it's a band aid insofar that you are either too poor or too lazy to build a custom house that has perfect acoustics... | |
| Do $2k speakers + DSP = $50k speakers? So you are saying running DiracLive on a Genelec 8351 for instance would increase the sound quality much more than say running the same thing on a TAD ME-1? Simply because the electronic crossovers have steeper slopes and do phase correction? I me... | |
| Do $2k speakers + DSP = $50k speakers? @kalalid I think Computeraudiophile.com already compared $1k LS50 with $4k JBL Cinema 4722 and said they sounded more or less the same after correction with a much less comprehensive room correction than DL (REW).I think at 90 db and below provide... | |
| Do $2k speakers + DSP = $50k speakers? Well if you buy into the Harman school of audio theory, there should be no audible difference between a passive speaker using a quality DSP like DiracLive vs an active speaker with room correction, provided both speakers have similar directivity, ... | |
| My JL Audio sub is dead. What exactly happened? @contuzzi Yep I can confirm that, I have 3 fathoms that needed amp replacements. They are the least durable subs I’ve ever owned. Everytime they died was with no music playing, the subs were just on and "pop" and the amp died. Plenty of mass marke... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers @ erik_squires I believe the Revel M126Be, which is $4,000, has slightly better than the 10 x 1 driver ratio cost you listed.The tweeters are SB acoustics Be tweeters, which from what I can see around $770/pair. And the woofer is a 6" SB acousti... | |
| Paradigm Persona series https://i.imgur.com/slYBQbo.jpgHere is the ANSI/CEA 2034 measurements of the Paradigm Persona 3F, measured in an anechoic chamber.As you can see, this is a very deliberately tailored sound signature that resembles a typical British speaker like B&... | |
| Speakers that sound like Usher Be-20s/10s A 1.25 inch tweeter with no waveguide crossed over a 3.5KHz...well, look for a speaker with poor dispersion. | |
| What is the best way to tame a slightly bright speaker? The TAD’s are had a little too much air from my time demoing them. Coaxial drivers have a very wide and uniform dispersion pattern and perhaps that’s why KEF rolls off the off-axis response of their drivers quite aggressively, whereas TAD chose no... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers The internet direct companies use higher quality drivers than retail brands, which means their speakers will typically have better axial response, dynamics, and distortion measurements (especially spectral decay). Also sometimes the cabinets have ... | |
| Genelec SAM active studio monitors for home use @gostaI think one of the advantages of something like the Genelec 8331 is that you can run your own target curve with the room correction software they have. With a speaker that has uniform dispersion like the Genelecs EQ should affect the sound u... | |
| Revel Gem2 vs Kef Reference 1 When you say hi-fi, do you mean it's too bright? Because you prefer more laid back speakers? Or was it something else. | |
| Dynaudio Special Forty vs. Contour 20 @ulsc Reclamation? Was your Focus 160 a demo pair? | |
| Tube amp with KEF Reference 1 I think perhaps a diraclive minidsp unit with a custom target curve will probably result in a better (and more configurable) sound. |