toddalin
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| 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... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? I gave the answer..., output impedience. The frequency response of an amplifier will vary with the output impedience when pushing a real life speaker load, and not some fixed value resistor used to determine the power. The lower the output imped... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? All the organs were deciding who should be the boss.... "I should be in charge," said the brain , "I run all the body's systems, without me nothing would happen." "I should be in charge," said the heart , "I circulate oxygen and nutrients all ov... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? Output impedience. If you follow the graphics in Stereophile, you see that the higher the output impedience, the greater the variation in frequency response based on a real life speaker load that is not a simple resistor. | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? I think, define, bloom as an "expansion/increase in that area of the lower midrange where the fundamentals of vocals emanate from." Furthermore, I think that I could even make a demo showing this effect in real time (i.e., A/B). When I raise the ... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? What is being said at exactly 4:41? This was asked on another forum and no one could answer until I did, at which point many agreed. Does your system have the detail so that you can understand this? https://youtu.be/_dbYxAr697w | |
| 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 ... |