toddalin
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| Why isn’t more detail always better? @avsjerry On the contrary. I think dipoles ruin soundstage and imaging by scattering sound willy-nilly about the room. Mine are blocked off at the backs and the "block-off" is a piece of modeling foam of a very specific size and shape covered wit... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @asvjerry The level of detail from a modified Heil is amazing. But the real magic is happening on the backside, and you can't see it in this picture. | |
| The Disappearing Act It’s pretty much across all tracks. You don't hear it from the speakers, per se. The music just "emanates" in the room. | |
| Give Me a 3D Printer and Who Knows What I'll Come Up With... I ran WinISD for the 2241H in a 6.5 cu ft cabinet and it likes a tuning frequency of 35.5 Hz. Using a 4.4" ID port (i.e., with the liners), the two ports come out to 6.6776" long. I made my ports at 6.7" long! Sometimes it’s better to be lucky th... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? Something to consider... When you hear sounds, music, birds, etc. in the real world, it is typically much further from you than listening to your speakers. Sound attenuates with distance, and there are two types of attenuation. There is the typi... | |
| Give Me a 3D Printer and Who Knows What I'll Come Up With... For my next trick... The cabinets that house my JBL 2241H 18"s (~6.5 cu ft) have two 5" diameter ports. With both open, the cabinets are a bit tubby. The cabinets were intended for PA use at a church, and ported for volume. With one port clos... | |
| 2-way design vs. 3-way design means ? No, not necessarily. A 2-1/2 way just means that there are two woofers that are allowed to play all the way to their "bottoms" (i.e., no high-pass filter) and are low-passed at different frequencies. My 2-1/2 way Mermans use a JBL 18" and a JBL ... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? Lowering the noise floor certainly increases perceptible detail. But you can’t lower the noise floor on poorly recorded material where the noise is part of that material, and in some cases maybe it is better just to "reduce" it a hair to make tha... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? I believe that we should strive for all the detail we can get. If it’s there, we should hear it! HOWEVER, the area of the band that includes much of the detail also includes much of the "hash/noise/distortion" present in all recordings, to some e... | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? pickindoug, these eq units are what you need, but they are probably "one-offs" made especially for my "one-off" tri-amped Super Big Reds with their "one-off" electronic crossover. I bought these from a recording studio that went under. | |
| Large speakers plus EQ, what have you done? You can "eq" the speakers through component selection in the crossover (even if unintentionally) and this is probably why some people prefer passive crossovers to active crossovers. Case in point. All the values in the crossover have an "ideal" c... | |
| 2-way design vs. 3-way design means ? I like 2.5 way designs and have a few including the "Mermans" that I developed (JBL 2241H 18", JBL 2251J 9.7", modified Heil AMT) and the Super Big Reds with the Altec 604-E2s/Utahs. Mermans: The JBL 4435 is also a 2.5 way design. | |
| Vintage JBL Floor Standing Speakers What kind of money are you looking to spend? 4345s/4350s/4355s would be the way to go if you can find and afford them. They will be cheaper than Paragons or Hartsfields and offer way more fidelity. For a sampling of vintage JBLs and prices (thoug... | |
| Give Me a 3D Printer and Who Knows What I'll Come Up With... Came out nice! Initial listening shows improvement in focus, clarity, and imaging..., as would be expected when you take the "steps" out of the audio path and limit vertical dispersion off the angled ceiling. The top, bottom, and flairs probably ... | |
| What is the Altec 604 sound? It is debatabe as to whether Abby Road used 604s or 605s, or both just changing them out over time. |