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| Booming Tunes a) Position the monitors about 56 inches out from the wall behind them. The energy bouncing off the wall will arrive out-of-phase with the direct sound at about 60 Hz, hopefully causing a zig where your modal room interaction is causing a zag.b) P... | |
| counterintuitive tilt angle Without knowing a lot of specialized information about a given speaker, I couldn't predict with any reliability what tilt angle, if any, would work best. I think it's one of those things you just mess with until it sounds good because that's quick... | |
| Magnepan, How Low Can You Go...power-wise Thomastrouble, it depends on how loud you listen.Audiogon member Onemug uses low powered SET amps to drive his 3.6's, and gets simply outstanding sound from them - for his purposes. | |
| Small monitor- made in the states Thanks Jax2, but at this point none of my speakers are suitable for Wombat3's application (maximum height 12"). If Audio Concepts (ACI) speakers are still available, they are excellent designs. What you can't see from eyeballing them is that desig... | |
| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms A solid state amp will put out less power maximum power into a 16 ohm load, which of course is an issue if the amp may be pushed into clipping. But if the amp will produce adequate headroom into a high impedance load, in my opinion there's a valid... | |
| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms Putting on my speaker designer hat for a moment, if I have the option of allowing the impedance to drop to 4 ohms (or below) I can often get a bit more bass extension out of a speaker, and/or use more aggressive equalization. On the other hand as ... | |
| Could I damage my woofers by trying this? The woofer cone will sag a bit and assuming it doesn't have a very long linear excursion (most old woofers do not) the result could be audible distortion setting in at a lower volume level. As long as it has 2-3" clearance above the floor it can b... | |
| Zingali HM-215 horn speakers I haven't heard that particular model, but I heard a smaller model with a single 15" woofer and it was quite nice.If you're looking for "strong bass", the one with the single 15" woofer might be better. Adding a second identical woofer without dou... | |
| Sub for Quad ELS-989 The passive (speaker-level) highpasss filters found in plate amps are not designed with the impedance curve of an electrostat in mind. Also, they use cheap capacitors that in my opinion you do not want to put in series with your Quads. In other wo... | |
| Sub Recommendation to handle both music and movies This is a bit over your budget, but my suggestion is to get two Parts Express 10" subwoofer cabinets with cut-outs; two 240-watt amps without bass boost; and two 10" Dayton Reference subwoofers. The Daytons subs come in two varieties, the HF versi... | |
| Speakers for a 12 x 13 room Vikvilkhu, it sounds like you're thinking of high efficiency main speakers that don't go down very deep plus an equalized sub.For an optimal small-room system my own thinking is along similar lines, though you might consider using two or more smal... | |
| Speakers for a 12 x 13 room Boundary reinforcement in the bass region is typically stronger and sets in earlier (at a higher frequency) in small rooms. In my opinion we'd want the speaker's output in the bass region to be approximately the inverse of this room gain. Several ... | |
| 2-ways that are close to 3-ways Shoulda been "Vman71"... sorry 'bout that. | |
| 2-ways that are close to 3-ways Drew, just for the record, some of my two-ways go down into the lower 30's... but I think they're physically a whole lot bigger than what Vinman71 has in mind; there's certainly no size reduction from them being two-ways instead of three-ways. You... | |
| Omni Speaker Options Amilcar, regarding the suitability of your room to omnis, let me describe some pertinent aspects of how the ear/brain system processes incoming sound. I think this is useful background for people considering omni, dipolar, or bipolar speakers. Thi... |