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| Recommendations for best most efficient speakers A pantale, note that the sensitivity rating alone doesn't tell the whole story, and can even lead you in the wrong direction. A 4 ohm speaker will have a higher 2.83 volt sensitivity rating because 2.83 volts into 4 ohms is 2 watts, but may well n... | |
| Gallo Reference 3.1 questions... Low frequency room acoustics varies enormously from room to room (and even within the same room). I think the difference of opinion regarding the necessity of the subwoofer amp that you see among Gallo Ref 3 owners is mostly due to variations in r... | |
| Is there such a speaker...(loud but smooth)? At the link below you'll find a thread wherein I describe a speaker I'm no longer commercially involved with that will play incredibly loud with no nasties. The only other system I've heard that can duplicate this feat is about sixteen times the p... | |
| Planar close to a rear wall? Quad for example? MrTennis,Come to think of it, the original Quads have a felt pad that absorbs the tweeter's backwave. Hmmm... I hadn't taken that into consideration, but that would probably give them them a much better chance of working close to the wall than oth... | |
| Planar close to a rear wall? Quad for example? If you can completely absorb the backwave, it would probably work. Unfortunately I don't think that's realistically possible. The problem is, the two-foot round-trip path length difference (imparting a 2-millisecond delay) before the backwave ener... | |
| Novice ears or unrealistic expectations? In general, there's more difference to be had (for better or for worse) in changing speakers than in changing amps. The typical audible difference between speakers is probably at least an order of magnitude greater than the typical audible differe... | |
| Looking for the "better sub" One thing you might consider in a two-channel context is that a subwoofer that's "flat" anechoic will have a rising response due to room gain. Typical room gain is +3dB per octave from 100 Hz down to about 20 Hz. In my experience, a subwoofer whos... | |
| Best new loudspeaker "one could have a similar discussion with respect to food, literature, art and movies."In my opinion this comment would be applicable if we were discussing music, which we are not. We are discussing the replication of music. That replication is ei... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers Jkalman, in my opinion Robert E. Greene of the Absolute Sound (also a high-ranking professor of mathmatics at UCLA) has a genuine understanding of what matters when it comes to a loudspeaker's in-room performance. Here is a link to his website:htt... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers Bob, typically driver interaction has a large effect on radiation pattern in the vertical plane but not much in the horizontal plane. Even with the digital crossover, you can see the results of driver interaction in the vertical polar map. I use a... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers Shadorne, I hadn't seen your post four up when I typed my reply three up. Congratulations on catching the implications and applicability of that off-axis bump. When working on a design, I place most of my attention on what's happening off-axis rat... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers Shadorne, I think I heard that model (or possibly a predecessor) about five years ago at CES. My impression was they would indeed play very loud. They were very detailed, but to my ears they sounded forward and a bit bright. Now they may well have... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers Hesson11, that is a very eductional set of curves. Thanks for posting the link. In the 45 to 75 degree family of curves, you see that big bump between 2 kHz and 5 kHz? Unless you listen nearfield or under quasi-anechoic conditions, that bump is pr... | |
| Flat Anechoic Measured Frequency Response Speakers I think these are anechoic or simulated anechoic (time-gated spliced with close-miked) measurements, but don't know for sure. Click on "Measurements", on the right-hand side:http://www.klein-hummel.com/klein-hummel/icm_en.nsf/root/prof-monitoring_... | |
| Best new loudspeaker "even if there were a measurable change in frequency response, such a state would neither be bad or good.""the issue between us is whether i consider a reduction in inaccuracy an increase in performance. i do not."Somehow I can't see Peter Walker ... |