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| Best multi-purpose subwoofer Thank you very much Tim. I find your posts quite educational, as I think you have more real-world experience than I do, and you have paid very close attention to your experiences. And you write very well!I think a good distributed multisub setup ... | |
| Best multi-purpose subwoofer Kink56 wrote: "Well I’ll be damned if it didn’t make the whole stereo sound more defined."Nice job!Improved bass smoothness often pays dividends beyond what our intuition would lead us to expect. Some of this is predicted by the Fletcher-Munsen cu... | |
| Best multi-purpose subwoofer I just found this thread; I don’t check in on Audiogon as often as I should. By far most of my activity is in prosound. I’m the guy who makes the Swarm.@noble100 , thank you very much for your enthusiasm and excellent explanations. I would like to... | |
| Goto Unit Nikecb, you have chosen excellent drivers that will work well together. You are off to magnificent start, and you probably don't realize how rare this is. You see, many hardcore DIYers at some point decide that they are going to combine the best... | |
| Have you ever wondered why speaker manufactures do not consign speakers to dealers? @audiothesis wrote: "I am a dealer and operate out of my home, but I have also invested heavily in product and am committed to seeing returns on those investments. This buy-in is a commitment to the manufacturers and distributors that is very mu... | |
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| Have you ever wondered why speaker manufactures do not consign speakers to dealers? About fifteen years ago I had a nice in-home showroom and a distributor approached me and offered to basically fill my showroom with a complete line-up of his products, all on consignment. He was offering me roughly a hundred grand worth of really... | |
| How do you properly set up a horn speaker @fluffers , you have an absolutely magnificent set of speakers. Very nice choice.Here are some general principles that might be worth being aware of:1. Early reflections are detrimental to imaging and clarity, and can cause coloration. The rela... | |
| Back to the drawing board Adjusting the controls on the subwoofer amp for best performance is critical; a mis-adjustment can easily make much more of a difference than the variations among competent subwoofer brands. Here is the sequence I generally suggest:1. Adjust the... | |
| Sub recommendation to augment Klipsch La Scala's ??? Smooth bass = "fast" bass, because it is the peaks which decay slowly. These peaks are inevitable and are caused by room interaction. You can move the sub and re-arrange the peaks (and dips), but you cannot eliminate them by positioning alone. ... | |
| Higher Efficiency Speakers Thank you for the recommendation, @ohlala . I really like Ralph’s amps and pre-amps (I have an UltraViolet too), so just about all of my speaker designs have his amps in mind. Specifically I usually shoot for compatibility with the S-30, on the th... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? I'm friends with an experienced technician (who does warranty service for several brands) and he is very complimentary of the parts quality in VAC amps. Duke | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? My suggestion would be to first see where you end up with the Schiit Loki in the signal chain. If it solves the tonal balance issue with your current amp, then it will also solve that issue with an SET or OTL amp (unless the knobs are already max’... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? In my opinion EQ is much more likely to help than is bi-amping. In your situation you need to be able to make finer adjustments than simply changing the relative levels of woofer and tweeter. That would help, but I think you’d still have weak uppe... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? There are a lot of tradeoffs in designing a woofer system and some of them may be in play in the differences you hear between the Merlin and the ATC.For example, the Merlin is 89 dB efficient and the ATC is 85 dB efficient. The higher efficiency o... |