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| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Thanks for starting this thread, Pedrillo. I and the other small companies appreciate the acknowledgement and are encouraged by your efforts here to raise awareness and interest. And most of us are friends with each other. One of us (Dale Pitcher ... | |
| Room Issues I think that fairly high-output speakers with a smooth power response would work best in a room that size. They can be narrow pattern or wide pattern, but the point is unless you listen nearfield the reverberant field's energy will dominate the to... | |
| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? Well, Pedrillo, since you asked...Okay this brand has advertised in at least one of the big magazines, but they sell direct only and even sell through Audiogon (surely that qualifies them!): Tyler Acoustics. At CES 2008, the best under-ten-grand-t... | |
| Obscure companies making excellent speakers? First let's start with some largely if not entirely under-the-radar companies producing high-quality speakers that I have heard and admired but presently have no commercial ties to (this list is from memory and no doubt incomplete). In no particul... | |
| Note worthy Omni Directional Speakers.. Chris,Do you sell the DDD driver as a separate unit, or only as part of a finished system?What is the price of the Unicorn with either version of the DDD? Looks like the carbon fiber driver is claimed to offer an improvement in both efficiency (sl... | |
| Most important component?? Glad ya'll enjoyed the crystal ball thing. Avguygeorge, sorry but a dishonest clerk who works in a Nigerian bank already beat you to it.Well Rives it looks like you are no longer a lone voice crying in the (correctly damped and highly diffuse) wil... | |
| Damping factor or watts? Thanks, Kijanki.One other thing I should mention: I don't intend to give the impression that a low damping factor amp will work with just any speaker. I'd want to see the impedance curve and possibly the frequency response curve before making that... | |
| Damping factor or watts? Rodman99999, I chose those woofers based on low thermal compression, suitable combination of bass extension and efficiency in a size box that I could live with, and sufficiently smooth response between 1 kHz and 2 kHz. I'd have liked higher voice ... | |
| Most important component?? Let me consult my crystal ball. Close your eyes and concentrate...Instead of individual components, I see component pairings.The loudspeaker-room pairing looks like the most important, as this is where there is the greatest variation. Next, depend... | |
| Damping factor or watts? Hi Rodman99999,I don't blame you one bit for fighting to keep the family farm. 92 dB is higher than average efficiency, I'll admit. Whether or not it qualifies as true "high efficiency" is a judgment call - over on Audio Asylum they discussed at l... | |
| Martin Logan Abyss with Magnepan 1.6/QR's??? I don't have any experience with either the Abyss or the Dynamo, but assuming they are comparable in quality (not quantity), two smaller subs will usually integrate better with dipoles than a single larger sub. You see, dipoles inherently have smo... | |
| Damping factor or watts? Rodman99999, I'll take you up on your bet. My house up against your farm. Here goes:The speakers used were 92 dB efficient two-ways. The woofer in the RMAF '06 room had a moving mass of 79 grams; Fs = 40 Hz; Qes = .35; Qms = 11.69, and Vas = 77 li... | |
| Damping factor or watts? These comments from recent audio shows are about rooms that used an amplifier having a damping factor of about 1.2 (that's "one point two"):"Bass was excellent. I think I was told [the speakers] went down only to the mid 30s (I could be wrong) - s... | |
| deHavilland 845G or GM70? Well first the disclaimer - yours truly peddles deHavilland. If the speaker is low efficiency and/or a somewhat difficult load and/or if you like it really loud, go with the GM70.If none of those considerations come into the picture, go with the 8... | |
| Best new loudspeaker MrTennis, I have a customer who would disagree with you. He plays, or played, violin in a symphony in either Vermont or New Hampshire (I can't remember which). Prior to auditioning SoundLabs, he told me that the only speaker he had ever heard get ... |