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| My daughter practing snare, bells this aft...... I make speakers that use high-end prosound drivers, capable of delivering clean peaks north of 120 dB.One of my sons is a drummer.No way would I claim that my speakers can truly recreate the sound of a live drum kit. A reasonable facsimile perha... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? This past Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, our room was right next to the Schiit room. I was hoping to make a trade, a pair of my speakers for one of their amps. Of course the pivotal question was, are my speakers worth a Schiit??Seriously, I think goin... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Dumbeat, in my experience cabling can make an audible difference which does not show up in the kind if measurements you are asking for.Since I'm a speaker guy, I tend to give a lot of credit and/or blame to the speakers. I do not look to cabling ... | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. rbodner wrote: "I have electrostatic highbred speakers (Martin-Logan Summitt X) - any thoughts on distance from The wall behind the speakers or the side walls? And toe in?"The distance to the wall behind the speakers is ime what makes the biggest ... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Spikes = better imaging and clarity, "tighter" bass, but not necessarily "more" bass. Ime best to experiment with positioning BEFORE you install the spikes. | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? If you place them in corners, assuming that works well, you might also spot-treat the walls to either side of the tweeter with thick foam. The idea is to selectively target the very wide-angle off-axis energy from the tweeter down at the bottom en... | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? You might try placing them in the corners. | |
| Optimal high impedance speaker "Your comment (3years) is surprising as I am sure your speaker, unlike most others, beats the limitations of the room it's in."I've sold other models that work well with the room, just not Zephrins. Perhaps their somewhat unorthodox appearance is... | |
| Optimal high impedance speaker "...a search generates only 1 mention of the Zephrins in 2 years?"I haven't sold any Zephrins since moving from Idaho to Texas three years ago. The vast majority of my work is in prosound, and the Zephrins are very labor-intensive, so I haven't r... | |
| ‘modern’, ‘mainstream’ speakers—too many models converging towards too similar a sound Kosst_amojan wrote: "There’s all kinds of ways of managing edge diffraction! On narrow speakers the time delay is virtually insignificant and it’s really only a problem in the treble region... It’s just technically convenient to drive the diffract... | |
| ‘modern’, ‘mainstream’ speakers—too many models converging towards too similar a sound Teo wrote: "And....digital room and digital speaker correction does not fix this. "Does not fix this. "Does not fix this."Agreed!!Nor can DEQ fix radiation pattern anomalies. How many audio shows have you done where you spend three expensive days... | |
| ‘modern’, ‘mainstream’ speakers—too many models converging towards too similar a sound Kosst_amojan wrote: "I’ve never heard or read where anybody of authority suggested wide baffle speakers image as well or better than narrow to no baffle speakers. The unavoidably suffer from artifacts relating to edge diffusion and the more pronou... | |
| ‘modern’, ‘mainstream’ speakers—too many models converging towards too similar a sound @blueranger said: "There’s lots of tower speakers around. I wonder if they are trying to follow consumer trends by having a small footprint?"I’m pretty sure that’s it. I think it’s a symptom of a world in which listening to recorded music is a muc... | |
| Songs for Speaker Placement Hmmm. Wasn't "Songs for Speaker Placement" a Wayne Brady segment from "Whose Line Is It Anyway" ??Seriously, I second newbee's recommendation of Opus 3's "Depth of Image". Duke | |
| One speaker observation from the New York Hifi show. @twoleftears wrote: "Almost without exception, if you pull the speakers further out, you’ll get a greater depth of soundstage."Yup!As a rough first approximation, I have found that the apparent soundstage depth is often about twice the distance fr... |