@m-db yes that is Terra Mar :-) red tide going.... on top of reopening...
Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer?
As we all know, most audiophiles spend a fortune for that flat frequency response displayed on the manufacturer's specs when you buy a subwoofer. Why do you do this? The minute you put that flat sub in your room and take some measurements, it is anything but flat (it's a rollercoaster with all kinds of peaks/nulls etc, EQ to the rescue).....So, why do you dudes continue to look for the flat line? What's going on in your mind when you're shopping around?
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@audiokinesis -- Deep: "I sure would not want to add another adc/dac into the chain with a subpar DAC on something like miniDSP for bass management (when i have a Denafrips DAC in my 2 channel setup). Guys i know have waaaay more expensive speakers, DACs, monoblocks, etc on their 2 channel music setups than i do. They are probably not gonna do that either. " Unless your speaker platform is all-active to begin with, in which case (expectedly quality) digital filtering is already a vital part of the configuration - sans passive cross-over parts that would otherwise be regarded the bottleneck. There are pro vendor, excellent digital cross-overs out there that doesn't cost a fortune, like the ones from Xilica, but even with passively configured main speakers - the primary focus in this context, it would seem - I find they're nigh on fully transparent being implemented into the chain. I'm stressing 'nigh on' despite my not being able to detect a sonic degradation with a Xilica unit put into the signal chain that ends with passive speakers (based on my experience with my previous, passive speaker set-up), because I wouldn't want to presume its total transparency in more academic or theoretical terms. Forest for the trees, as they say; with passive speakers in mind, what does the outcome of putting a quality digital cross-over/DSP into the signal chain potentially bring with it advantageously, high-passing the main speakers instead of letting them run full-range, compared to the (mostly theorized?) audible influence the added component itself will have? That's certainly up to debate, but I find high-passing passive main speakers with a quality digital DSP for subs augmentation to be worthwhile, and with an all-active configuration like I'm using now it's a naturally integrated option. High-passing mains to me is all about relieving them and the amp(s) driving them, rather that protection per se. |
@tomic601 , here are some tracks i use when i'm tinkering with it and listening for things (non compressed FLAC versions of these, 24bit 96khz when possible). Overall SPL levels are relatively high (farmhouse/no neighbors). Hans Zimmer - Mombasa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPgPxGX6nNo Rom Di Prisco - Caverns of Suursonnabu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKyS8WES7Y Jesper Kyd - Approaching Target 3 about 2.35 onwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NipZFlauZ8E Yaeji - After that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAtkZ9iVEwc Strappin young lad - love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9Aohgd79I John Peasano - First Contact Protocol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO6i2b5pH8 |
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