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| Shipping drivers to China Magnepan advertises "Made in USA, sold in China". So importation of speakers apparently is possible, if you go through the right channels.And maybe what they mean by "speakers" is the finished system, rather than the individual components. So mayb... | |
| Admittedly a bit lost For the low to moderate volume listening your apartment location dictates, that 40 watt JoLida will be sufficient with medium (honest 87 dB) efficiency speakers. I was a Jolida dealer for many years and imo you made an excellent first amplifier pu... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Hi Inna,I really don't think Michael Green's approach (room acoustic treatment that preserves beneficial reverberant energy) and mine (starting out with speakers that don't need to be "fixed" by room treatment) are mutually exclusive. Maybe we're ... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Hi Inna,We might not be talking about the same thing, I should have paid closer attention to your wording.What do you mean by "tuning" the speaker/room pair?And you're right, (acoustic) guitar would have been a better example. Thanks! | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP Inna wrote, presumably referring to what I said about reverberant energy: "Yeah, 'if done right' is the key. The room should be précisely tuned too, in this case especially so, I assume."Actually speakers that generate spectrally-correct (or nearl... | |
| SF AIDA OR EVIDENCE PLATINUM W MOMENTUM PRE & AMP While I'm sure both speakers are excellent examples of their respective philosophies, imo in this case the Sonus Faber Aida starts out with a superior paradigm: Getting not only the direct sound, but ALSO the reverberant soound, right.The (adjusta... | |
| need help with subwoofer setup. crossover related Overlap can be dealt with via the phase control on the subwoofer amp.I recently set up a system where the mains had a muddy bottom end but we didn't have a suitably high-quality highpass filter to roll off their bottom end. So I overlapped with th... | |
| Any experience with TAD speakers ? @Lewinskih01,TAD's prosound division is pretty much a separate entity from their home audio division, and the latter doesn't sell drivers directly to the public.Andrew Jones of KEF went to work for the TAD home audio division and brought his conce... | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? "Next I'm going to throw my Braun L200s onto of my ADS810s and run them in parallel to get to 16 Ohms."As Almarg pointed out, series rather than parallel connection will give you a nominal 16-ohm load (assuming the Braun and ADS are both 8-ohm loa... | |
| Any thoughts on passive v. active speakers? On average, I would guess that an active speaker outperforms a typical amp + passive speaker combination. But seldom does an active speaker include amplification at the same level as what a specialty amp manufacturer can deliver. Imo you're alread... | |
| In Memoriam: Bobby Palkovich of Merlin Music Sonist survived the passing of Randy Bankert, and Sonist had a considerably smaller following than Merlin does. Merlin has earned a lot of name recognition, credibility, and respect over a lot of years, and I would be surprised if no one takes adv... | |
| Let's try this a different way then Maggies are quite forgiving of proximity to sidewalls because they have nulls off to the sides, being dipoles. They also like a lot of breathing room behind them, again because they're dipoles. So unless placement constraints prevent you from taki... | |
| Speaker Advice? The problem isn't port location, as demonstrated by the Audio Notes that Philjolet referred to. Rather, the problem is that most speakers are not tuned (or capable of being tuned) for placement in a corner.But it sounds like only one of your speak... | |
| Input on speaker sizing for a lively room. From your initial post: "I am at an age where this opportunity won't likely be repeated and would like explore possibilities I likely would never have known about."And from your second post:"I have no experience in what role the design elements ac... | |
| Input on speaker sizing for a lively room. In a room that size, especially given that you have an open floorplan, imo looking through a somewhat unorthodox lens is called for.Presumably most of your listening will be done fairly far from the speakers. As a result the ratio of direct to rev... |