shadorne
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| 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... | |
| is it sacrilege? Sure it should be OK...don't worry at all about your wife.It is a social signal. She is just marking her territory with a clear signal to all others. Her mark, the statue, sits over and above your dominion, the stereo speakers. If you want your wi... | |
| Speakers That Will Party Hard If your friend wants party hard sound but absolutely nothing on the floor in the room then these in wall speakers are probably a good compromise: although they will not play as loud as 12 or 15" woofer systems, these four 8" drivers per pair of sp... | |
| Speakers That Will Party Hard You friend can't have his cake and eat it. He will not achieve anything even remotely approaching a party hard sound level with satellite speakers....Small satellite speakers definitely vary in quality and SPL output from manufacturer to manufactu... | |
| Where should I start for computer audio?? You need about 400 MB per CD if you use Apple lossless. So if you have say 1000 CD's then you require approx 400 GB drive....now to be safe you should have two drives and have them mirrored in case a drive dies...as half life of disk drives seems ... | |
| terrible bass response / unevenness problem. A DSP processor with a digital notch filter for base control would probably help. My Anthem AVM-20 has this feature and it works very well....if you like vinyl then you can still do it.... just use the DAC to convert to digital and then apply the ... |