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| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Tomic61 wrote: "amp + speaker + room +ear/brain = system" Very well said!! By the way I’ve yet to hear a pair of the Larsens, but their innovative approach makes a lot of sense to me. Duke | |
| Are big subwoofers viable for 2 channel music? Lusima31 wrote: "I found the same with my 4 AK subs, without the port plugs they sound very good so the sealed vs vented sub dilemma I have a feeling it depends on other things, maybe the dimensions (length and diameter) of the port in proportion ... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms The way a speaker interacts with the room is a big part of how it sounds, for better or for worse. Imo it is possible to design a speaker to interact favorably with a very wide variety of rooms, including "terrible" ones. Several basic principles ... | |
| Bass at your ears? (Bass imaging) The bassline on that recording is a form of "wobble bass", which in and of itself does not explain the "claustrophobic" sensation. The size of the acoustic space is conveyed by the reverberation. A small space is conveyed by rapid onset and rapid ... | |
| Bass at your ears? (Bass imaging) My guess is that it’s part of the recording, and is probably deliberate. If the bass was the only instrument recorded with little or no reverb then it would be the only instrument which would tend to sound "proximate", or close to one’s ears. Sort... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver akwilson501 wrote: "I’m trying to cross my tweeter over around 15khz, wouldn’t a .33uf capacitor be ideal, in a 1st order filter? Considering the 106 db on the fostex, and the 96db for the fullrange... "3uf and 1.5uf seem as little high doesn’t i... | |
| Stuck at home? Make a kit!! I agree with Eric that there is enormous satisfaction in DIY audio. My second pair of speakers used the drivers and crossover from a kit that KEF offered back in the late 1970’s, and performance-wise they killed my first pair of store-bought, maga... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver mijostyn wrote: "Duke, I think the L pad or resistor goes in series in front of the capacitor and driver. No?" If the input power levels are low then you can probably get away with placing the L-pad in front of the capacitor, but you LOSE the L-pa... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver Alexberger wrote: " Back of ceiling firing tweeters sound horrible!!! It completely destroys focus and sound-stage." I disagree. Quite the contrary in fact when done right, and I can go into detail if you’d like. The reason for keeping the supertw... | |
| Super tweeter for FullRange Driver Your plan makes a lot of sense to me, and imo the T90A is a good choice. My first commercial effort used a fullrange driver augmented by a rear-firing T90A. In a case like this, where you don’t have the benefit of measurements, you find the capaci... | |
| You could work for any manufacturer, past or present... Irving Fried and Earl Geddes. I worked with the latter for a little while. Might be fun to do a controlled-pattern constant-directivity speaker system with a transmission-line woofer and a first-order series crossover. Duke | |
| Rush and Quantum Physics " I am from Toronto....I grew up in Willowdale..." You don’t by any chance drive a gleaming alloy air-car, do you? | |
| Speakers that can reveal orchestral instruments' positions Mozartfan wrote: "Tyler, now defunct..." Tyler Acoustics is still in business. I just exchanged e-mails with Ty Lashbrook less than five minutes ago. Tyler Acoustics is not only very much still in business, they are among the few high-end home aud... | |
| Classic Audio T1 and T3 field coil loudspeakers "Does the Hartsfield project a bigger image/soundscape due to its width?" Do you mean, because corner placement would put the Hartsfields further apart? Soundstage width is related to setup geometry. The T-3’s would not be in the corners so if the... | |
| Speaker sensitivity, impedance, and calculating amp power Thank you very much, Tvad. Hilde45, at the moment the best place to see my home audio designs is actually the James Romeyn Music and Audio website. My own website is under revision. But my feelings would not be hurt if you ended up with something ... |