I had my custom moderate size listening room designed to accommodate 6-12" woofers at high efficiency, 98db. Now I get 25 Hz down just a few db. Bass is not an issue. This is very superior to my prior room which was 25' X 20' X 11.5' where I only got 35 Hz and bass response sounded heavy and uneven. The quality of the sound is 100% more satisfying/dense/rich with the same equipment. I also use acoustic tweaks including a double pair of Hallographs and a slew of SR HFTs, some ECTs and GCTs. I don't claim to get the best sound I ever heard but sound that one has difficulty leaving the room or running to the room to get to the music. I've heard 100s of systems over the years. The $1 million VAC/Von Schweikert system sounded the most life like. That system was large in a very large room but provided whatever the character of the recording, close or distant with all the ambiance that was recorded (or reverbed). It also provides a bubble of sound that emanates so that it spreads throughout the room, unlike most box speakers and many stats I've had. Advanced box speaker technology can rival any other tech design. It can be costly. I can make do for now with a great room and very good speakers that bring me to the music as it was recorded, near, far, in-between. Music can literally pop out at me, at all frequencies, just like live music at all levels of dynamics. Only orchestral music sounds compressed to some extent, often the recordings' fault as well.
What makes speaker's sound big?
Does a speaker need to have many drivers or a large driver area to sound big and fill the room?
I am asking this question because I have a pair of tekton design double impact and would like to replace them with smaller speakers and a pair of subwoofer's to better integrate the bass into my room.
I just borrowed a set of B&W 702S. The are good but the just don't make that floor to ceiling sound that I like.
Maybe I have already answered my own question (: But again I have not heard all the speakers out there.
My room measure 15x19' and the ceiling goes from 7.5 to 12.8'
I am asking this question because I have a pair of tekton design double impact and would like to replace them with smaller speakers and a pair of subwoofer's to better integrate the bass into my room.
I just borrowed a set of B&W 702S. The are good but the just don't make that floor to ceiling sound that I like.
Maybe I have already answered my own question (: But again I have not heard all the speakers out there.
My room measure 15x19' and the ceiling goes from 7.5 to 12.8'
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I also have a single driver LII Audio Fast 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have this fast8 arriving in 2 weeks, I just surveyed several LII 10's and 8's on YT vids, ,,seems a tad warm in the critical mids,,But we'll see after i build the cabinets, Will uploada YT vid, Now to answer the OP, The answer he is looking for is ~~Sensitivity~~~ The Thors with 87db sound like a wet blanket 's been thrown over the speaker, LITERALLY!!!! Vs a relatively high sens at 91db FR Diatone 6.5 wide band. The Diatone 91db sounds bigger vs the MTM Thors, Go figure, db sens is everything in a speaker, Lower the db more ouny sounding speaker, higher the db la mas grande the image. Its that simple. |
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