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| Magnepan 1.7 and Subwoofer help/recommendations Getting deep bass that matches the smoothness (and therefore subjective "speed") of a pair of Maggies is a challenge. You see, dipoles inherently have smoother in-room bass than monopoles do. In going from two dipole speakers to a single monopole ... | |
| Polling Magnepan Users - Room Size Big Maggies and other line-source-approximating speakers have an interesting characteristic: The sound pressure level falls off more slowly with distance than from a point-source-approximating loudspeaker. So they lend themselves to larger rooms b... | |
| Speaker type: is more affected by room acoustics Asking questions about improving the speaker/room interaction is, imo, asking the right questions. The speaker and room form a system, and these two parts of the system do not always work well together. But they can.In my opinion the best approach... | |
| use only bass in 3 way speaker? I think you can drive your Isophons with a subwoofer amp, which would allow you to roll off everything above the subwoofer region. No modifications necessary, the variable low-pass filter in the amp, along with its other controls, would give you t... | |
| use only bass in 3 way speaker? If the filter topology to the midrange and/or tweeter in your old speakers is second order or higher, and if there are no damping resistors on the parallel legs of the filter, there will be a frequency or frequencies at which the load presented to... | |
| Best Musical Sub Room/speaker interaction is a challenge at low frequencies. Compared to the relatively minor frequency response differences between two different high quality subwoofer systems, what the room does to wreck their smoothness is huge. That's the main... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? You might take a look at the Classic Audio T-7, it's the closest approach I know of to what you're looking for. Dukedealer for other stuff | |
| Requesting info on Audio Kinesis ZEPHRIN Speakers If I might connect some dots here, on how the Zephrins are related to the Dream Makers...It all started with me being a SoundLab owner (who became a dealer). There was something the SoundLabs did right that I hadn't experienced from other dipoles.... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Kijanki, yes larger diameter voice coils are definitely desirable from a thermal standpoint, all else being equal. Ferrofluid helps as well, assuming it's a good heat conductor, which it probably is. On the other hand I don't recall seeing any pro... | |
| Size of Midrange Drivers Of course every designer has different priorities, but one of Siegfried Linkwitz's top priorities in the Dvorak was radiation pattern control. His target radiation pattern called for fairly large diameter midrange cones. Impact and dynamics are pr... | |
| Sloped baffle Just took a look at this thread; the title didn't obviously say "read me" so it took me a while to check it out.Lowpass drivers lag behind highpass drivers in both time and phase, and a sloped baffle can introduce a limited amount of compensation ... | |
| Top brand speakers In general I try to avoid internet squabbles with fellow industry members because I think it's bad form. But I will toss out a few thoughts on the concept of unearned authority, which is something that arises beyond these walls as well.In any fiel... | |
| Top brand speakers "People in this business know... that I can create a superior endresult compared to them. I do not have to proff this anymore. They know it!!"Kindly do not lump me in with those who allegedly acknowledge and concede your claims.Dukedealer/manufact... | |
| Top brand speakers Welcome to a wonderful hobby! Music can transform you, it can take you to a place where your soul speaks to you, and music well-rendered does this best. While live music is the "reference" that we aim for, it's often easier to listen deeply to rec... | |
| Is it possible to have Good Imaging close to wall If there is sufficient time delay between the first-arrival sound and the onset of significant reverberant energy, we can have the best of both worlds - imaging and envelopment. Reflections done right are beneficial from the standpoint of envelopm... |