toddalin
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| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy I understand what he's getting at and see where he's coming from. If you look at the FR you see that they have fairly smooth extension into the bass frequencies with the peak ~70Hz declining below that and from there up to ~500 Hz. The extension... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? @guscreek Original Chartwell LS3/5As in at least 9.9 condition. They were given to me by my neighbor’s adult kids when he passed away a few years ago and they were emptying and selling the house. I even got an extra NOS woofer for them that I f... | |
| Trends in value of vintage / used audio equipment? How about meters and a scope? | |
| Package Has Disappeared in USPS System ...Because the seller is aware that the delivery company is a bunch of screw-ups and had the foresight to take out insurance (charging the buyer in the cost as appropriate) so that he could reinburse the buyer when they do. I run a business and h... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I said ~80 Hz for the bottom of the midrange because the idea is to keep at least the fundamentals of the human voice within one driver and there are those who can certainly sing lower than that. | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Ooops, 4435. Stupid edit time out! | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design A 2-1/2 (2.5 way) uses two "lower frequency" "drivers" and an "upper frequency" "driver". One of the "lower frequency" drivers is allowed to play all the way down to its lower limit and crossed over to the "upper frequency" driver just as a typic... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Of course 3-ways would be bigger than 2.5-ways which should obviously be bigger than 2-ways..., right??? These Super Big Red 2.5-ways are only 15.5 cu ft. Those are Chartwell LS3/5A 2-ways on the floor for comparison. | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? https://www.stereophile.com/reference/707heavy/index.html | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design Actually, the Heil is 29.76 square inches of tweeter surface. I was too late on my edit. | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I’m partial to my 2.5-ways. They use a JBL 18", a JBL 9.7", and a modified Heil. (BTW, a Heil is equivalent to 8 square inches of tweeter surface.) And these do keep the midrange in the 9.7 going all the way up to ~3,500Hz before crossing over to ... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design I have no knowledge of the three speakers in question. Whether a 2 or 3 (or 2.5 or other) way is best is dependent on the selected components, construction, and it’s implementation. There are fine speakers made in many "ways" and I don’t think th... | |
| Which sounds better 2 way or 3 way speaker design "Dedicated midrange driver" is typically an oxymoron and very few three-way systems will not put some of the midrange in the woofer and/or tweeter. You would need to run the driver from ~80Hz-~4kHz for it truly to be "dedicated" to the midrange. | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? No the first graph is better as the power level, and hence volume, of the sound does not change with frequency. In the second graph, the power goes up and speakers will get louder ~75 Hz and 1-2kHz and have a dip at ~5kHz so you would not attain ... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? If you people would read the measurements section of Stereophile, you would see that I’m correct. Look at the frequency response for the Moon 861. Remember, we are talking power amps here, so no preamp functions (e.g., loudness) enter into the di... |