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| Are planar speakers less prone to room interaction Dipoles interact with the room differently from monopoles, and have different setup requirements for good performance. Briefly, dipole bass is smoother in-room than monopole bass, but you don't want the reflected backwave energy arriving at the li... | |
| High Efficiency Dynamic Speaker Suggestions Please The Emerald Physics speakers would probably be quite happy with Class D amplification, but the PiSpeakers and mine would probably perform their best with low damping factor tube amps. I can't speak for the Tylers or Opera Consonance speakers, but ... | |
| Good, Affordable Horns? I've heard several Cain & Cains (including single and double Bens) and several Duevels, but not sure I've heard the Jupiters. Both lines include very nice speakers, different in presentation obviously. I wouldn't recommend an omni for a 12 by ... | |
| Help Design & Build a Cabinet - KNOW ANYONE? I presume the format you have in mind is a cabinet that's very wide and very short, with the tweeter over the midrange in the middle of the cabinet face, flanked by a woofer to either side. There will be some lobing of the woofers' output in the h... | |
| Whats the best $1000 speakers Magnepan MG12 would be my nomination for speakers. Maybe an Oppo DVD player as a source, and a 100 watt (or more)integrated amp to drive 'em. Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Can an amp overdamp a speaker? Atmasphere's description here is EXACTLY what I heard with Wolcott amps as I turned the damping factor control up higher and higher. The loudspeakers were SoundLab fullrange electrostats:"...[One] of the first things to go is the low frequency amb... | |
| I have a question about my speakers I'm not familiar with the Primare SPA 21, but 180 watts into 4 ohms should be enough for the Maggie 1.6 for most people. Excellent speaker in my opinion.Dukedealer/manufacturer | |
| Subwoofer and tweeter for Quads Hello Ggavetti,I have owned several pairs of Quads (57's and 63's), and have some unorthodox ideas about how to combine a tweeter and a subwoofer with them. On the tweeter, in my opinion the problem with the Quads is beaming. They have decent high... | |
| Can an amp overdamp a speaker? Dcstep, I don't know how much of a difference greater amplifier power makes. In my experience if the amplifier and speaker work well together, it doesn't really matter what the amplifier's damping factor is. I used to think that a speaker would ri... | |
| Do any speakers image/sound-stage close to walls? Springbok10, there are tradeoffs both ways but overall a dipole would not be my choice for your speaker placement. You'd have a strong early-arriving reflection off the wall behind the speaker, and that tends to be detrimental to clarity (as well ... | |
| Can an amp overdamp a speaker? Gs5556, the net effect of low damping factor on SPL is not the same as having a resistor in series. The modification of Qe is the same, but because there is in fact no resistor in series that is soaking up power there is no corresponding loss in S... | |
| Do any speakers image/sound-stage close to walls? Springbok10, thanks. Good question - I wasn't very specific, and where we measure from makes a difference when the speaker is 21 inches deep! I'd guess that if you can get the front of the speaker 3 feet out from the wall when toed in, that would ... | |
| Can an amp overdamp a speaker? Gs5556, I agree with you that the primary low-frequency effect of amplifier output impedance (or damping factor) is on driver electrical Q. And the lowest possible value of Qe is not necessarily ideal. Let me give an example of a speaker that woul... | |
| which should i purchase (tetra or sonus faber) I like Tetra speakers very much (though I haven't heard the 606 yet). Sounds like you like 'em too. Seriously I doubt there's a wrong choice between the Tetras and the Sonus Fabers, but why not get the one that your ears say are "without a doubt t... | |
| Do any speakers image/sound-stage close to walls? Toed in sufficiently, the controlled radiation pattern of the SP Techs will avoid significant interference from the sidewalls, so I think they'll give you good soundstage width. In my experience, good soundstage depth requires the speakers to have... |