shadorne
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| 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... | |
| Soundstage wide and deep but not at all tall. . . I don't sit with my head by the wall Sorry - I went by the photos of your system. I would be concerned with what appears to be the placement of the listening position in the photo. That you have treated the wall behind the listener should help. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... When I lived in Scotland there was no "best malt" - variety is the spice of life - I'd have a half a dozen bottles from speyside (from towns where we played golf) - another half dozen from the west coast and then several from the Islands up north ... | |
| What is the ideal High Freq extension? My opinion is that the behaviour up to 12 Khz is much more important than between 12 and 17 Khz and frankly above 17Khz it is mostly for the "bats & dogs".All too often I hear tweeter grain and harshness from compression at realistic levels. A... | |
| Lack of depth problem I have some Wagner where the chorus sounds like it is in the next street good tube amps with good output transformers, also have depth. Good point - the output transformer coupled with speaker impedance variation with frequency will generally hav... | |
| Angling speakers up instead of high stands Why not simply try it and see.Of course too much up angle is going to cause increased ceiling reflections but every room/speaker/listening position is different.In general music sounds better with tweeters/midrange AT or ABOVE ear level. This is w... |