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| Question about lower freq response. The three factors that get traded off are box size, efficiency, and bass extension. Greater cone size in the same box size often means higher efficiency, and therefore less bass extension. The box sizes are pretty close (the Paradigm is maybe 10-1... | |
| Distributed Subwoofers - Options Hi Marty,My guess is you're referring to James Romeyn, a dealer for Thorell high-end guitars. Here's a link to the page for his DSA 1.0 subwoofer system:James Romeyn's Distributed Subwoofer ArrayThis system has higher output and deeper extension t... | |
| How To Ship Heavy Speakers With Insurance? You might try freightquote.com.Duke | |
| Best speakers for about $3500 Dorkwad, I tip my hat to you on remaining civil when you so easily could have chosen not to.Duke | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor-Standing Speakers Set-Up Glad you found it! Duke | |
| Why not horns? Thanks, Macrojack. Since posting the link, I have "met" one of that paper's authors in another online forum (he and I are disagreeing about something... surprise surprise!).I don't have any experience with either the K-2 or Everest, but I'm sure t... | |
| Why not horns? Learsfool, I don't have first-hand experience with the A7, but it seems to me that there might be a step-down in response below the frequency were the short horn in front of the woofer un-loads, such that in the bass region the response might norm... | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio Floor-Standing Speakers Set-Up Five rooms and no bass. Hmmm.When you stand with your back up against the wall, do you get bass then? If so, move your chair and/or move your speakers so that you get sufficient boundary reinforcement.If you don't get bass even up against the wall... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, can you borrow a sub? Perferably one with a phase reversal switch. It can be a small sub that doesn't go very deep. Try it along the wall behind the speakers, with the phase reversed. I'm hoping that its response will "zig" where your main s... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, the reason I asked about what speakers you have is to see whether the port tuning could be changed (lowered) which would allow a small subwoofer to be added, preferably along the rear wall or in a rear corner. Duke | |
| The pursuit of bass... Jax2, can you tell me what your main speakers are? That might help me come up with suggestions.One possibility is to rotate the speaker-listener-speaker triangle perhaps 15 or 20 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise, as seen from above. This wil... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Plato, the equal loudness curves illustrate that the ear itself is not "flat"; I wouldn't consider them to be any sort of "target curve" for loudspeaker frequency response, but they do show where a designer needs to be careful; in my opinion you c... | |
| The pursuit of bass... Putting my designer's hat on, bass is largely a matter of juggling tradeoffs. It's not that difficult to get good bass if you start out with a big enough box. If box size is severely constrained, we must make some hard choices between bass extensi... | |
| Bring on the criticism... Hmmm. interesting.The tonal balance probably becomes a bit warmer, as each side's output will combine in-phase at low frequencies, while as Shadorne noted you will get comb-filtering (partial cancellation) at higher frequencies.Comb filtering ofte... | |
| Musical Speakers - If you like that sort of thing. In broad terms the purpose of home audio reproduction is to recreate, as closely as reasonably possible, the perception of hearing a live performance. So-called "accuracy" that does not serve this goal is either irrelevant or incomplete. Dukedeale... |