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| Speaker suggestions for a McIntosh MC225 Seems to me that pretty much any medium to high efficiency, tube-friendly speaker will work well with that amp. Do you have a ballpark price range in mind?The Quad 57 certainly isn't known for its bottom end. To get more bass, I used to take the f... | |
| Class D and High Efficiency Speakers? I design speakers specifically intended to work well on low damping factor tube amps, but double-check them on a high damping factor solid state amp (one that has been mentioned in this thread) to make sure I'm not painting myself into a corner. I... | |
| Question about speakers... Whether or not a speaker design is successful depends on a lot of factors combined. I wouldn't necessarily say that two tweeters is bad - it depends on the specifics of the design. The devil is in the details, but so are the angels.Lobing and comb... | |
| Active crossover advice for 1000hz biamp Every horn I have ever worked with required equalization specific to that horn design, and I don't know of any off-the-shelf analogue domain active crossover with such capability. On the other hand, something that does digital signal processing li... | |
| Good speakers at low volume? Thanks, Johnk. That PHY driver has a very warm and rich tonal balance, sounds lovely at low and medium levels, will play loud better than most fullrange drivers, and in a good cabinet it would be an excellent choice in your situation. In my experi... | |
| Good speakers at low volume? In general, high-efficiency speakers and electrostatics do a better job with low-level resolution and liveliness. Of course, there are exceptions to this generalization.With high-efficiency speakers, note that you want one that doen't have a thin,... | |
| Subwoofer with Unison Unico Yes.You can choose a sub that has speaker-level inputs, or solder up your own voltage divider network with speaker leads for the input and RCA jacks for the output, or get one of these:http://www.audio-magus.com/SubLine_Subwoofer_Connector_p/slv2.... | |
| is too large a room no good? Most speakers are designed with the emphasis on good on-axis response, with the expectation that they will be listened to from close enough that the first-arrival sound will dominate over the reverberant energy as far as tonal balance goes.But in ... | |
| Replacing Electrostatic Panels - Costly/Difficult? You might contact this company with your questions (no affiliation):http://www.estatsolution.com/In a high humidity environment, I would strongly recommend unplugging them when not in use. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Thanks for the information, Macro. With Bill Woods on your team, you're in great shape.Best of luck with your project!Duke | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Macro, what frequency range do you want the driver to cover? Do you have a horn already picked out, or is choosing a horn part of the project? Active or passive crossover, and who will be doing the crossover design (or setup, if active)? What will... | |
| Hey Audiogon how about a DIY/Horn section? Great idea, Gawdbless! And perhaps to go along with it, maybe a category for buying and selling raw parts - tubes, drivers, horns, transformers, plate amps, enclosures, stuff like that. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Okay, this is just a guess...It looks to me like there's a double diffractive edge below the tweeter, formed by the horizontal slot on the front baffle. The ear might be picking up this diffraction as a secondary sound source with a seriously skew... | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Macro, I liked 'em with Bill's horns the best. It was in a huge room at RMAF last year, and it sounded like there was a band up there playing. A pretty good one, too.I don't know what Cogent charges for their drivers. You might try contacting Stev... | |
| Anyone have experience with Cogent Field Coils? Utterly effortless sound - the Cogents impressed me a great deal. The Cogent room has been one of my favorite rooms at several audio shows over the past few years. I would say that some of the horns they've used have been better than others, but t... |