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| Amplifier design parameters required for a good match for high (16+) ohm speakers? As long as the amplifier has enough power that it won’t be clipping into the 16 ohm load, it should work just fine, unless there is some other mis-match going on.I have made speakers that are user-configurable as either a 4 ohm load or a 16 ohm lo... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? Those Morels sure look like magnificent woofers. I've never owned one, but have admired them greatly from afar.Duke | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? @shadorne wrote: "There are only a few audiophiles today who understand what a big speaker with large 15” woofers and 4” voice coils can do and even fewer who are willing to pay the price in terms of poor WAF and transport logistical headaches!"A... | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers mzkmxcz wrote: "Soundstage is the off-axis of the speaker."Well, I have a somewhat different opinion:A wider radiation pattern results in early sidewall reflections which increase the apparent image width. This is usually judged to be a pleasing e... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions @teo_audio, very interesting information! I'm going to apply it in my next high-end audio crossover build. Suppose you have a situation where you must use multiple capacitors to arrive at the desired value. Based on your comments, I presume t... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? bdp24 wrote: "I understand the subs in a swarm design all reproduce a combined left plus right (monaural) signal, even on material containing stereo bass (rare, but not unheard of). Is that correct?"That’s normally true of the system I make. The a... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? Awoof, one possibility since you already have a sub, is to add a few more. In a distributed multi-sub setup, the subs need not be identical. It is perfectly fine to have one or two that go significantly deeper than the others. If you go this ... | |
| Who are some of elite sub woofers? tomic601 wrote: "for those of us with powered bass bass and EQ built into our mains, when adding a sub w EQ we get most IF not all the benefits of swarm..."Are you describing a system with two fullrange equalized main speakers plus an equalized su... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. @erik_squires , I use measurements every time I design a speaker, which is fairly often. Sometimes there is a discrepancy between my observations and the measurements, and in those cases I try to find the explanations. I remember my first attempt ... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. "I think we are debating technology and not the sound."I thought I was responding to critiques of the measured response of some electrostats. But Audiogon is not a technical forum, so perhaps I should have just said "that’s not how some of them s... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. I've seen frequency response measurements published by Toole for a hybrid electrostat that looked horrendous, but I don't think they were well done, nor the ensuing listening test. Here's why:SPL will fall off more rapidly with distance from the ... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. Erik, I’m aware that there have been measurements of electrostats that apparently showed chaotic diaphragm behavior. Such chaotic behavior would be inherently non-coherent and therefore fall off more rapidly with distance than the signal being pro... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. The smoothest measured in-room frequency response I have ever seen was a SoundLab panel set up in Roger West’s open-floor factory. They ran pink noise through it and I was watching the real-time analyzer display. There was no smoothing and no time... | |
| Electrostatic pros and cons. The strengths of electrostats usually include superb inner detail and articulation, low coloration, very good to superb imaging, and excellent pitch definition in the bass region. They tend to sound startlingly natural.The weaknesses of electrosta... | |
| Seek non-ported speakers - $700 to $1500 To stop the port-itis in my room! Drumbe, in my experience "smooth" bass is "fast" bass. In-room bass peaks actually decay into inaudibility slower than the rest of the bass region, and this sounds "slow" and blurs subsequent bass notes. Speaker + room = a "minimum phase" system... |