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| Speakers I have Two in mine?? "I have a pair of Zu Souls MK11, I like them, but wish, I have more bass slam, and a slight reduction in the treble, only just!!"This thought occurs to me:You can think of the tonal balance of a speaker like a see-saw: If the top end is too much, ... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. @bdp24, thanks for the story! My understanding is that Bruce Edgar really is a rocket scientist... I think he worked at NASA, or maybe it was an aerospace company. He's as enthusiastic as a kid, and hasn't let his MS throttle back his enthusiasm... | |
| Frequency response + or - 1 dB ?? "It was probably not measured properly and not really flat. Why else would it sound dreadful?"Actually, you are right! I was only measuring the on-axis response, and ignoring the off-axis response, because back then I didn’t know any better!But he... | |
| Frequency response + or - 1 dB ?? A powerful DSP unit can probably get you pretty close at the microphone location, but to do it right, you'd need to exclude reflections.When I first had access to good test equipment, as an enthusiastic amateur, I built a speaker that was about +/... | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. @bdp24 was wondering if there were "any modern horns that are free of the classic horn colorations."Off the top of my head, in no particular order:Classic Audio, JBL (M2 and 4367), GedLee, PBN (“M” series), Pi Speakers, Volti, Edgarhorn, Zingali, ... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? Mijostyn wrote: "there is a compromise in a two way horn system that is difficult to get around. You either have to run a woofer up into the midrange or make a very large horn to get down to where most woofers do well."Done right, I don’t think th... | |
| How come Horn + woofer designs are not more popular? @shadorne wrote: "Horns tend to have an uneven radiation pattern with frequency."It depends on the horn. Many horns (such as tractrix or exponential) tend to have a wide pattern down low and a narrow pattern up high. Often PA horns have a cons... | |
| Big systems - Little rooms "I'm on board with using multiple subs, but in a bedroom?"I was thinking of a room that might otherwise have been a bedroom but was being used as a dedicated audio (or perhaps audio/video)room instead. Sorry I wasn't clear!Duke | |
| Big systems - Little rooms In a fairly small room (say a spare bedroom), two main issues arise:1. The bass response will typically have major peaks and dips largely due to the room modes being few and far apart (an inevitable consequence of the room being small); and2. The ... | |
| The 60 Ohm Speaker Tweak Good idea. I prefer the actual impedance compensation circuit, but a large value resistor in parallel with everything, as you describe, is a much simpler approach, and can probably make a worthwhile net improvement in speaker compatibility with ... | |
| Need Suggestions Hi nkonor,Your Avalons are a VERY tough act to follow. I was a SoundLab dealer for many years and Avalon was the only similar-price-ballpark "conventional" speaker that I really wanted to become a dealer for. (Instead I ended up becoming a speak... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @noble100 wrote: "But my main reason for posting is to ask about your quote above. Was " and time-delay it such that it cancels the signal from the front wall when it arrives." accurate and not a typo?"That’s what I meant to write.My understandin... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @rauliruegas wrote: "we not necessarily need 4 subs we can do it with two true subs. The Harman white papers proves that.... My target is to have the best solution ( rigth now with two true subs. ) at one and only one seat position where the mids ... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? Hi @lewinskih01, you asked, "What is your point of view about time alignment of a SWARM or other DBA systems?"Imo time alignment is at best a secondary consideration in a distributed multi-sub system, from a perceptual standpoint. The ear has very... | |
| Why the fascination with subwoofers? @rauliruegas wrote, about the AudioKinesis Swarm:"For a 10" woofer (as the four subs array posted here. ) is almost imposible to handled frequencies below 20hz at over 100dbs ( SPL. ) and with low THD kind of distortion."I didn’t design the Swarm ... |