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| Tailoring tweeter output The problem with acoustic attenuation of your tweeter's output is that any material absorptive enough to make a significant differnce down at the bottom end of your tweeter's range is going to be overly absorptive in the top octave. Assuming were ... | |
| Any one with Evett and Shaw experience? No experience, but a bit of trivia: "Shaw" is Clayton Shaw of Emerald Physics fame. He is both outrageously innovative and intimidatingly competent (me speaking as a competitor), so I'm not surprised that his earlier efforts still hold up quite we... | |
| Hemp Drivers, musicians lov'em, audiophiles? My understanding is that there is greater variation in fiber size with hemp pulp than with most other types of paper. All else being equal, I think this would have the effect of reducing the Q of breakup peaks (making them wider but not as tall). ... | |
| Full Range Speaker That Can Play Near Boundaries Numerous challenges arise from near-the-wall placement in a small room: Early reflections are inevitable, degrading the imaging and usually tonality (especially in the midrange and lower treble); room gain will boost the bass region more than the ... | |
| Need advice on speaker/x-over update Don't pad the woofer - too many negative side-effects attached to that much series resistance when it wasn't included in the original design work. Once the problem is found all will make sense and the solution will be obvious.Duke | |
| Need advice on speaker/x-over update Measure the original parts and the new ones to be sure they are really the same values; parts can be mislabeled. Double-check the circuit to make sure you have the right parts in the right places; humans are not infallible.Be aware that sometimes ... | |
| Can I get deeper bass from my 890c Boleros? Not knowing any more about the 890c Bolero than what you just posted, I presume they have a passive radiator.Lowering the tuning frequency of a passive radiator will not necessarily give you a "better" bottom end. It will re-shape the speaker's lo... | |
| Speakers to alleviate room anomolies Rleff, in general it's desirable to have a lot of low frequency sources in-room, as long as you aren't stressing the main speakers and as long as you aren't over-emphasizing some portion of the bass region or otherwise creating a problem (like you... | |
| Speakers to alleviate room anomolies Room effects dominate in the bass region, and the peak-and-dip pattern is a function of room dimensions (and damping), source location, and listener location. In other words, move the bass source(s) and/or the listener and you re-arrange the peak-... | |
| Need Guidance: Soundlab A-3 Content Those speakers are very unlikely to be rare/collectible, as the parts, materials, and technology that SoundLab uses has progressed significantly since that pair was made. If the core (the part underneath the cloth) has a wooden frame, and/or cable... | |
| Side firing woofers The electrical phase of the woofer has nothing to do with its physical orientation. The net acoustic phase at the listening position is affected by the relative distance of the drivers from the listener at the crossover frequency. Unless the path ... | |
| Maggies a waste if only 3' from backwall? Most of my experience has been with different planars (as well as with several bipolars), but I don't see much advantage to going with a smaller model instead of a larger one based on distance from the wall. The relevant factor is the path length ... | |
| Room correcting subwoofer for music? There are three reasons why rooms have so much more impact on the sound in the bass region than elsewhere in the room. The first is acoustic, and the second two are psychoacoustic.Normal home listening room dimensions tend to be "small" relative t... | |
| How do you chose speakers based on room size? Saki70, I'd have to see the speaker (and preferably know its crossover frequency) to make a judgment about its radiation pattern.The room gain you get in a small room plays right into the hands of a good back-loaded horn that exits into a corner. ... | |
| New spreakers sound great But Moving either your speakers or listening position (or both) closer to the wall will often increase the perceived bass. For a quick test, go stand up against the wall and see if the bass improves. If that's not feasible, then you might consider add... |