shadorne
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| Help Needed: Is my system balanced? 600/2900 = 21 percent of your system cost was on speakers.Just my two cents: this is too low to be balanced. Speakers are were the rubber hits the road. Turning electrical signals to sound vibrations in the air is where nearly all the major distor... | |
| Cable Break-in....again? Phd,A good system design should require very little break in...any design that drifts significantly over time is likely to require regular maintenance or calibration...something a good designer will try to avoid.Fortunately regular copper speaker ... | |
| Interesting discovery Just replaced the battery in the car today..... a huge amount of white powder with hints of green was what I found all over the +ve terminal and inside the connectors and wires leading to the starter motor circuit...so Uppermidfi is right about co... | |
| Cable Break-in....again? If your cables require break in then I would very be suspicious of either the design or the manufacturer. There should be absolutely no scienific reason that cables driven at normal AC current levels and made of appropriate materials, such as copp... | |
| the right speakers Cart before the horse.....The right speakers are what meets your SPL levels/room requirements and is pleasing to your ears and music tastes.Don't force your speaker choice to match existing components, expecially at $5K price levels. Choose speake... | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers Here are a couple of links that clearly explain some of the complexity and compromise involved in speaker design.http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct00/articles/monitor.htmhttp://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov00/articles/ustandingmons.htm | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers Rlew,I am only concerned that someone reading this thread will think that a high sensitivity speaker is necessarily better than a low sensitivity speaker.Unlike the general rule about a bigger box having better bandwidth and therefore being a bett... | |
| Speaker suggestions for less than ideal accoustics Apart from the windows and the tile floor, which may give you reflections and some harshness in the treble, the fire place, loft and large room size probably make this a great room for listening (lots of space and uncorrelated reflections). If you... | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers Audiokinesis,Very good points about thermal compression issues and how they affect dynamic range and tonal balance. I agree with you fully. A highly efficient speaker should certainly be better in these regards when listened to at moderate to high... | |
| Interesting discovery Suggest you treat solid conductor cables very carefully (once set up....don't move them at all if you can avoid it). Most cable problems come from slightly broken, damaged or oxidized contacts - leading to high or intermittent contact resistance o... | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers Gs5556,I agree with you fully. I think you described the differences much better than I tried to explain.Your point about horn loading is a good one. A tuned bass reflex port is commonly used to increase a speaker efficiency enormously by adding e... | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers You cannot compare efficiency alone without considering speaker/cone size and overall design...it is always a compromise.The question: If driven with the appropriate amplifier(s), meaning a higher powered amplifier for a less efficient speaker an... | |
| How do they do it???????????? I have no idea what caused your problem. Were the speakers second hand? If a previous owner smoked drugs in their home then the dogs at customs would detect this and customs would likely look inside your speakers for hidden packages...(i.e. remove... | |
| Seperates vs Integrated at $2000 The difference is in the flexibility of having a physical separation between preamp stage and power amplification stage. I do not think you can generalize that one or the other definitely sounds better. If you don't need flexibility and only need ... | |
| Is live reproduction the goal of audio? The goal of audio electronics and transducers is to sound as life-like as possible but this is not at all the same as "live".Since real instruments have complex surfaces and venues have reflective surfaces that all radiate/reflect sound ....then t... |