tonywinsc
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| frequency range for instrument vs speaker "I'd say just about *any* loudspeaker would benefit from the right pair of subs properly blended."That's true because it is adding more power (assuming powered subwoofers) to the whole system and low frequency reproduction takes lots of power. Pro... | |
| frequency range for instrument vs speaker Drew: I understood that speaker frequency response is measured in an anechoic chamber so that consistent comparisons can be made with regard to speaker response performance. In the real world, the speaker sits on a hard or soft floor, close to or ... | |
| frequency range for instrument vs speaker I have had speakers with a flat frequency response down to 20Hz and my current speakers are flat to 27 or 28Hz. I haven't missed those bottom 7Hz. I occasionally heard thumps in recordings like in the first Cowboy Junkies Album with my old speaker... | |
| frequency range for instrument vs speaker Oops! I just clicked on the poster's link and found it is the same chart. | |
| frequency range for instrument vs speaker There is an audio frequency chart linked in another thread under speakers. It shows the frequency range of musical instruments. It is under the thread titled, " Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k?". | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? Notice how the sensitivity decreases around 1kHz which just happens to be the upper end of the female voice? I think this chart is based on data from married men :) | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? I also have my hospital birth certificate with my footprints on it. I wonder if my feet would still match the lines just on a larger scale? | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? Grege: you're kidding, right? I just checked again to make sure and I can still hear 16kHz. I'm 54. Up through my late 40s I could still hear 20kHz, if it was loud. That surprised me because back then I expected it to have fallen off by then. It u... | |
| Thoughts from THE Show, is $29k the new $10k? High end audio goes back over a hundred years. Edison made a high end phonograph around 1900 that cost $250 when the average wage was about $400/year. That would be comparable to roughly $18k today? So "The American Dream" of wanting more of the b... | |
| Stop me before I buy, or help me choose... Absolutely. Caveat Emptor! | |
| Stop me before I buy, or help me choose... I agree with you. I also agree that the cost/performance is not linear. I believe it to be logarithmic; ie. you must double the money to get an incremental improvement in sound. Kind of applicable, give or take. | |
| Stop me before I buy, or help me choose... Be careful comparing the audio performance of phono cartridges based on cost. Several low cost phono cartridges sound very good for the money but the more esoteric and pricey cartridges deliver the goods. My personal experience: My Koetsu died aft... | |
| Stylus Drag I meant to also say that the outside diameter of records are not always round. You really have to reference the grooves to find the true center of the record. I'm guessing that they trim the OD of records with a knife to remove the flash, if they ... | |
| Stylus Drag I call it record runout. Runout is the periodic side to side motion that can be seen in the record and even the tonearm as the record is spinning on the platter. It is caused by the centerline of the record hole being offset to the centerline of t... | |
| Stylus Drag Even in a closed loop system some speed variation will occur. An error must exist between the setpoint and actual before the system will react. A certain deadband around the setpoint exists or else the sytsem would hunt, ie. cycle about the setpon... |