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| Higher Efficiency Speakers Thank you for the recommendation, @ohlala . I really like Ralph’s amps and pre-amps (I have an UltraViolet too), so just about all of my speaker designs have his amps in mind. Specifically I usually shoot for compatibility with the S-30, on the th... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? I'm friends with an experienced technician (who does warranty service for several brands) and he is very complimentary of the parts quality in VAC amps. Duke | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? My suggestion would be to first see where you end up with the Schiit Loki in the signal chain. If it solves the tonal balance issue with your current amp, then it will also solve that issue with an SET or OTL amp (unless the knobs are already max’... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? In my opinion EQ is much more likely to help than is bi-amping. In your situation you need to be able to make finer adjustments than simply changing the relative levels of woofer and tweeter. That would help, but I think you’d still have weak uppe... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? There are a lot of tradeoffs in designing a woofer system and some of them may be in play in the differences you hear between the Merlin and the ATC.For example, the Merlin is 89 dB efficient and the ATC is 85 dB efficient. The higher efficiency o... | |
| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... I make speakers that use high-end prosound drivers, capable of delivering clean peaks north of 120 dB.One of my sons is a drummer.No way would I claim that my speakers can truly recreate the sound of a live drum kit. A reasonable facsimile perha... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? This past Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, our room was right next to the Schiit room. I was hoping to make a trade, a pair of my speakers for one of their amps. Of course the pivotal question was, are my speakers worth a Schiit??Seriously, I think goin... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Dumbeat, in my experience cabling can make an audible difference which does not show up in the kind if measurements you are asking for.Since I'm a speaker guy, I tend to give a lot of credit and/or blame to the speakers. I do not look to cabling ... | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. rbodner wrote: "I have electrostatic highbred speakers (Martin-Logan Summitt X) - any thoughts on distance from The wall behind the speakers or the side walls? And toe in?"The distance to the wall behind the speakers is ime what makes the biggest ... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Spikes = better imaging and clarity, "tighter" bass, but not necessarily "more" bass. Ime best to experiment with positioning BEFORE you install the spikes. | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? If you place them in corners, assuming that works well, you might also spot-treat the walls to either side of the tweeter with thick foam. The idea is to selectively target the very wide-angle off-axis energy from the tweeter down at the bottom en... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? You might try placing them in the corners. | |
| Optimal high impedance speaker "Your comment (3years) is surprising as I am sure your speaker, unlike most others, beats the limitations of the room it's in."I've sold other models that work well with the room, just not Zephrins. Perhaps their somewhat unorthodox appearance is... | |
| Optimal high impedance speaker "...a search generates only 1 mention of the Zephrins in 2 years?"I haven't sold any Zephrins since moving from Idaho to Texas three years ago. The vast majority of my work is in prosound, and the Zephrins are very labor-intensive, so I haven't r... | |
| ‘modern’, ‘mainstream’ speakers—too many models converging towards too similar a sound Kosst_amojan wrote: "There’s all kinds of ways of managing edge diffraction! On narrow speakers the time delay is virtually insignificant and it’s really only a problem in the treble region... It’s just technically convenient to drive the diffract... |