shadorne
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| PMC AML1 Seriously good speaker - big sound in a small package and very accurate. They play very loud cleanly. Will beat most anything of similar size. You will want to crank it! | |
| Sub vs. three way No not all the same. Essentially a three way speaker will not use the same design compromises as a small two way. A dedicated midrange should allow much lower distortion at higher playback levels and if done correctly can achieve much better dispe... | |
| Isolation and Harsh Highs? Tubes are well known to be microphonic. Microphonics are also more apparent in extremely high gain stages such as in phono amps. Apart from placing things in another room you may likely continue to have some minor issues. (Pink Floyd's studio have... | |
| Golden Ear award for $55 speaker tweak All of which is, of course, proof positive of Robert E. Greene's abso!utely impeccable taste and insightLOL.To add to the list my old 1982 Energy 22 had a rubber foam around the hyperdome tweeter and they did indeed image like no tomorrow. Since ... | |
| b&w805s vs ATC scm19 Based on your preference ATC is the far better choice. However many people prefer the BBC dip in the B&W midrange and the bass extension. The B&W is a more typical impressive sounding design that audiophiles would tend to go for over the p... | |
| Emerald Physics CS-2, Opinions Please These are not active speakers - they are speakers that use an active crossover. Whatever - but you are really splitting hairs. To me, active speakers - putting the crossover and amps INSIDE the speaker to ensure that it gets the worst affects of ... | |
| Emerald Physics CS-2, Opinions Please Interesting. I have not heard these...so no comments on the sound. The CS2 system is a stereo, bi-amplified design requiring a high and low frequency range amplifier for each channel......Passive crossover networks in conventional speaker inflict ... | |
| two way or three way speakers SF, Franco Serblin says the center speaker only complicates things and he prefers the simple two channel speaker. would the same theory apply to two and three way speakers?I'd agree - unless you can get a center channels woofer and tweeter at exa... | |
| Most subs seem too powerful Subwoofer frequencies travel far and are difficult to absorb - sorry but you can't change physics. | |
| most effective bass traps Some get there traps tested at independent third party laboratories - such as GIK. This provides conclusive evidence of their effectiveness - how they work in your specific room is of course highly dependent on your specific issues and placement. ... | |
| Golden Ear award for $55 speaker tweak This is from the website Sound waveforms from your tweeters are shorter in length than the width of your speaker cabinets. A 2000Hz waveform is 18cm or 7" in length, for example*. We hear information up to approximately 14kHz on average. Thesewave... | |
| Wilson MAXX musicallity and sound I think that both exist in our speaker systems. Absolutely. Most systems generate suprisingly high levels of IMD - basically it is a result of non-linearities in the system performance. An amp will not perform exactly in the same way when deliver... | |
| Wilson MAXX musicallity and sound I wonder how we'd measure the intermodulation distortion at the listening position, do you have any ideas? This is about way more than frequency response.I don't think you mean IMD. IMD comes from an amplifier driving a bass signal (amps) and a mi... | |
| Speaker cables for soundlabs and strong current High current suggests higher gauge - Phoenix Gold - M-1250 - Super Oxygen-Free Copper 12-Gauge Speaker Cable is great value and looks and feels better (flexible) compared to cheap Home Depot 12 gauge. | |
| Where are you today? I guess the biggest switch was passive to active speakers - before this I used monster power amps to handle woofer and tweeter requirements as one. I can't understand why it took me so long to realize the obvious: that driving a tiny sensitive twe... |