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Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass?
Millercarbon, my suggestion is this:  Once you have placed the subs, first adjust the gain, then the frequency, then the phase on the sub amp.   Expect to cycle through gain-frequency-phase several times.  The word "timing" seems to me to imply "a... 
Tight bass sub recommendations
Thank you millercarbon for your kind words.Gdnrbob made an insightful observation: "...it just makes sense that multiple subs will nullify/even out room nodes. Any of the subs listed would do that, when 4 or more were hooked up."Yup. That’s why I ... 
Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass?
@avanti1960 wrote: "Adjusting the continuous phase control provides much more than a slight amount of timing adjustment and my ears were quite capable of hearing when I had the correct phase setting."And I totally believe that you are quite capabl... 
Best speakers in the 50-60k range ?
D2girls, I share your fondness for good horn systems and even aspire to build them, but don't have anything in that league.  I assume you’re developing a short-list. Here are some possibilities that come to mind, in alphabetical order:Classic Audi... 
Tight bass sub recommendations
My short answer is, two smaller subs instead of one bigger sub.The following is my long answer.Off and on over the course of a decade or so I tried building a sub that was "fast" enough to mate well with Maggies and Quads, on the theory that there... 
Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER?
Florida71 wrote: "To each his/her own, but a pair of 12” drivers shouldn’t need a subwoofer."There is a tradeoff relationship between low-end extension, box size, and efficiency. A high efficiency woofer, regardless of its diameter, has to trade o... 
Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass?
Jetter, I don't know how to reliably predict in advance what would be the ideal, so some trial-and-error is probably called for.   You might even find that something in between, like 45 and 135 degrees, works best.  Or you may find that it makes l... 
Will a subwoofer add depth and clarity to my system, or just bass?
The ear simply does not have the time-domain resolution to hear a slight timing mis-match in the subwoofer region. The ear is UNABLE to even detect the presence of bass energy from less than one full wavelength, compared to which small timing erro... 
Small drivers vs big drivers
Forgot to include this: One area in which a vertical array of multiple small woofers has superior room interaction relative to a single large woofer is in the floor-bounce dip. The multiple small woofers will have their floor-bounce dips at differ... 
Small drivers vs big drivers
Kosst, thank you for your reply. You are absolutely correct that I was not clear about what I meant by "good radiation pattern control". First, I like for the pattern to be uniform over as much of the spectrum as is reasonably feasible, at least i... 
Small drivers vs big drivers
Kosst: "I hate to break it to you, but you’re wrong about radiation patterns."That’s possible. I’m not infallible.Would you mind pointing out exactly what I said wrong about radiation patterns? I think it’s fair for me to ask that so I can take an... 
Small drivers vs big drivers
Kosst, of course we can compare arrays of smaller drivers vs large drivers."Array" is a rather open-ended term. How big is your array? Line array? J-array? Splayed array? Arrays can get pretty big and pretty sophisticated.So let’s do an actual app... 
Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER?
@mrdecibel wrote:  "Interesting that he is saying " if you like female vocal, like Diana Krall, or other female vocals like her, I can see using this speaker ". So he's saying these Klipsh speakers, with their horn midrange and horn tweeter, are g... 
Adding a Sub do i go with 1 or 2 ?
"The AK swarm of four is typically run in mono."This is because virtually all recordings have mono bass. Ford Motor Company wanted to find out how common stereo low bass was in deciding whether they needed stereo subs for their high-end sound syst... 
Small drivers vs big drivers
Kosst, I think you are resorting to straw-man arguments; that is, putting words into the mouths of those you disagree with in order to make them appear foolish.I design speakers having what you would probably call "giant drivers". The primary reas...