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| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Mijostyn wrote:"For the drivers to act as one they can be no farther apart than 1/2 the wavelength of the crossover point."You do an excellent job of explaining your suggestion, but imo the issue it addresses is not one that a distributed multisub... | |
| Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers Gochurchgo wrote: "One speaker I heard that I liked was the Spatial M5. I had ruled it out as a floor stander."Imo the Spatial M5 would be an excellent candidate for your situation.Many moons ago I was a dealer for Clayton Shaw, back in the early... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr I've owned several pairs of Maggies, several pairs of Quads, Martin Logans, and several pairs of SoundLabs. I chose to become a SoundLab dealer.SoundLabs have the most natural-sounding timbre of any speaker I have spent time with. I say this as ... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Audiorusty wrote: "With as good as a DBA system is, there still will be only one sweet spot in the room."Imaging will of course be best in the sweet spot.But it is possible for the imaging to hold up fairly well across a fairly wide listening area... | |
| Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers Gochurchgo wrote: "I guess I’m assuming floor standing speakers will project bass through the floor to the neighbor below. I’ve been operating on the presumption that stand mount is the imperative."Bass can be transmitted by two mechanisms: Airb... | |
| Speakers for a “cold” room @audiotroy , thanks for your detailed reply."we take a systematic approach which has been honed by having tons of gear incomming and outgoing."That makes sense. All parts of the chain matter. But I think the place where problems are most likely to... | |
| Speakers for a “cold” room @audiotroy wrote: "Duke an austute summation..."Thank you!"... but there is no way to know what is causing his problem with the Addagios."Perhaps not, but what mlapenta describes (upper-mid harshness) is consistent with excess off-axis energy at t... | |
| Speakers for a “cold” room Mlapenta wrote: "I have a terrible room... acoustic zen adagio... I love the zen’s but find the upper mid’s a bit harsh."Here is what may be going on:There will be a significant radiation pattern discrepancy between the single 1 5/8" ribbon tweete... | |
| Pin point imaging isn't for everyone In many things audio, tradeoffs are inevitable.There is a tradeoff relationship between imaging precision on the one hand, and envelopment/immersion on the other. The tradeoff has to do with how much energy is in the reverberant field. Imo a rever... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Audiorusty asked: "Since a DBA system can evenly distribute low bass evenly to all parts of a room are you also able to distribute the mids and highs evenly to all parts of the room or are you still relegated to a single listening sweet spot in th... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution @bdp24 wrote:"would you expand on your recommendation of introducing a 90 degree phase difference between left and right subs?" This is an idea I learned from a paper written by David Griesinger many years ago. David recommended two subs, one dire... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution @bdp24 asked:"Is for the subs to be wired/operated in mono mandatory in a swarm sub system?" Not at all. "In other words, does the swarm not "work" (reduce/minimize bass peaks and nulls in the room) if the subs are run stereo?" Works just fine in... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution @rauliruegas wrote:"Position at a normal one seat position and play music ( digital or analog ) with very low bass recorded information and then through several tests/evaluations lest us know if you can or can’t detect from where comes the sound y... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution @noble100 wrote:"Are you making a distinction between the perceived true stereo bass that I'm currently experiencing and your mention of "a second amp can be added to give you true stereo bass"?" IF the recording has true stereo bass, adding the ... | |
| Searching for matching(?) Subwoofer solution Audiorusty asked: "A question for the DBA folks; How do you get the mids and highs to spread out evenly through the room to match up with the bass at all locations in the room? Also does a DBA affect impact?"The bass doesn’t sound like it’s coming... |