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| Pink Floyd Samuel,Possibly, though Alan Parsons has produced some other really good sounding stuff - so it is hard to believe he did not play a significant role. It wasn't until "The Wall" that James Guthrie became directly involved with PF. | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? Bob,In order to disperse evenly and widelythe driver needs to be smaller in diameter than the wavelength of the sound being produced. In order to produce upper midrange frequencies at decent volumes (for farfield applications) it requires the use ... | |
| Pink Floyd Just another quick historical note - Alan Parsons is the one responsible for the sound behind the original masterpiece DSOTM. Alan still uses B&W speakers, as far as I know, and swears by them. | |
| Pink Floyd James Guthrie begun his career working with Greg Walsh (Tina Turner etc) at Mayfair Studios London. James Guthrie now has his own studio called Das Boot in Lake Tahoe and he uses ATC's (like David Gilmour). Pretty much all the remasters of Pink Fl... | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? Marty,Agreed. I was referring to the majority of conventional two ways. Omni's being a rather a minority. | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? That pretty much settles it for me then. Please note that my comments on nearfield two ways is not limited to active speakers at all. | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? Nearfield is indeed 2 to 6 feet. It is an important consideration in many designs as most two-way speakers run a 6 inch woofer up to 3 or 4KHZ. This makes them ONLY suitable for nearfield because already above 1KHz the woofer is starting to beam (... | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? 10K input impedance is accepted as the appropriate value. Generally a minimum of 10:1 contrast between input and output impedance is desired.Raising the impedance well above 10K is not going to improve things - in fact it will likely result in gre... | |
| Why do intelligent people deny audio differences? Why do intelligent people deny audio differences? Perhaps it is for the same reasons that only the stupid can not see the emperor's glorious new clothes? | |
| Distance from the front not the rear wall? I think that the use of specific absorbing room treatment can go a long way in adapting to the situation.Absolutely. I have seen research that suggests you need to get the reflections 21 db below the primary signal to make them inaudible (accordi... | |
| Distance from the front not the rear wall? I think it is very hard to generalize about this stuff.If everyone accepts that speakers are best kept away from reflective surfaces by several feet (ideally 3 or 4 feet or more in order to get an optimal stereo image and soundstage) then accordi... | |
| active speakers, Paradise? Trouble in paradise? I’m having a hard time discerning any diffs from filters used in active x overs, and passive x overs… apart from this one thing. An active line level crossover can use much steeper slopes than a passive kind. The line level signal is much less af... | |
| Distance from the front not the rear wall? The problem with Sonics explanation above is this statement:-"Secondly, the reflections are shorter than the circumference of the head, so the brain cannot measure the time delay between the ears, and therefore cannot localize the source of sound.... | |
| Distance from the front not the rear wall? The simple explanation is that1) Bass response is always the worst close to a wall - just try it by walking around the room - you always get a more uneven bass response when you sit near a wall.2) The secondary reflections will collapse the sounds... | |
| how are stereo signals recorded on records and CDs The groove is like a valley - each side of the valley represents one channel. The stylus vibrates in two orthogonal directions in response to the signal on each side. A moving magnet at the other end of the stylus is detected by two coils to give ... |