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| TADs SS Hibachi Amps Each 12" woofer is ported If you see a small box speaker with small woofers and ports then generally you can guess that it is for bass extension (often underdamped).If you see a very large box speaker with large woofer and large ports then it can... | |
| Active Speakers: The usual suspects .... Many people criticize active speakers for having built-in amps, their reasons vary. I'm not sure whether it matters, but I can see the benefits of external.Internal amps can suffer from microphonics - it requires choosing components and gain desi... | |
| "switching" noises from SS Class-AB amps Some Class AB amps will run in entirely Class A until they reach a certain high output level. At high output levels distortion from switching is very difficult to hear. They usually use a form of sliding bias. So you get the best of both worlds - ... | |
| Thiel CS7.2 vs Aerial 20T I suspect that pointing out obvious differences between these two speakers will result in upsetting either Aerial 20T owners or Thiel owners.... These are both excellent choices and you should be very happy with either. | |
| Dynaudio Sapphire vs Revel Studio2 You just weren't paying attention...To true ...I really didn't get it. | |
| TADs SS Hibachi Amps Marty,Is correct. In fact the way the speaker mechanical and air suspension is designed is very important as to how it will sound. (actually far far more important than amplifier damping!!)Here is a third term: "critically damped". This has been g... | |
| Dynaudio Sapphire vs Revel Studio2 I posted everything you need in order to figure out why what I have been writing is correct. I am getting the feeling you just want to argue without reason at this point. Sorry I got the impression you were ready to explain how to interpret the p... | |
| Active Speakers: The usual suspects .... I believe you are saying the same thing. I am going back and forth between the Focal, DigiDesign, and possibly one of the baby PMC monitors.Yes I am saying - that you should not base your decision on the active filter design (Digital or analog ac... | |
| Speakers too wide apart? Shadorne, reading your posts about speaker placement, and then looking at the speaker placement in your personal system where they are built directly into a wall unit, makes me wonder if you follow your own placement rules? Good question. For sid... | |
| Dynaudio Sapphire vs Revel Studio2 I guess I'll have to post an instructional on how to interpret a frequency/dB graph That would certainly help me until I get the Master Handbook of Acoustics and learn something about acoustics. Since my comments about relative increased bass and... | |
| Speakers too wide apart? The music has more weight and solidity to it What you have done by placing the speakers further from side walls is to cut down on early reflections form the mid and treble - it allows your brain to process the primary signal before the reflection... | |
| Active Speakers: The usual suspects .... I hate to ask: Is that critically important? Not critical - digital filters are more powerful and flexible than real circuits - but both need to be carefully designed - digital filters can introduce distortion that is unrelated to the music (trun... | |
| Mid life audio crisis Oh - and just one thing - pro-speakers are often viewed as "harsh sounding" and "non-musical" or simply analytical or worse as "PA sound" by many audiophiles.. Certainly with modern pop recordings (many are terribly compressed) these type speakers... | |
| Mid life audio crisis Given the TL design of the PMC's it may be wise to stick with their sub. The PMC AML1 are tuned at 5.5 feet TL length which does not match the subwoofer at 9 feet TL length. I am not sure what that does to the phase when you combine two. (bass ext... | |
| Your opinions on what speakers to go with? Of course, if this is something you are only experiencing recently then Tweak could be quite correct - you may have a tube issue. Another challenge could be microphonics when you play loud. Pink Floyd's studio have their tubes in an entirely separ... |