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| Speakers positionning @rvpiano wrote: "I was just at the New York Hifi show, and perhaps because of the size of the rooms, all speakers were toed in, most severely. The result was very little precise imaging. Everything tended to come from one central spot between the ... | |
| Speakers positionning Suppose we have hotel room + no room treament + extreme (45 degrees) toe-in. Recipe for disaster, especially when it comes to imaging and soundstaging, right? Here are some online comments about such rooms. From RMAF 2013: “Just amazing. This feel... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? @erik_squires , love your self-portrait, man! Now if you ever wander into my room at an audio show, I'll recognize you instantly.Duke | |
| Austin Acoustic horns @austinacoustic , will you be showing at Lone Star 2019? Duke | |
| Speakers positionning @geoffkait wrote: "the best soundstage along with everything else can ONLY be achieved using a foolproof method... The better the room is treated for acoustic anomalies the better success you will have."Do you think it makes sense to design speake... | |
| Speakers positionning @geoffkait wrote:"Most speakers will produce the best soundstage, frequency response, dynamics when pointing straight ahead, with no toe in or very little toe in."Agreed, for "most speakers". Well I’m not sure it makes much difference in dynamics.... | |
| Speakers positionning I use 45 degrees of toe-in regularly, with speakers that are designed for it. The speaker axes criss-cross in front of the sweet spot. Ime several advantage accrue, including a wider sweet spot, deeper soundstage, reduced coloration, and more con... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Just FYI, the Lone Star Audio Fest is in early May, and its location is less than half an hour from McKinney. Wayne Parham of Pi Speakers is a regular there. He's the founder of the show. I'm about twenty minutes east of McKinney in Princeton, ... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) @recluse wrote: “I for one would be very interested in Duke from AudioKinesis discussing soundstage in a large *and small* room.” Imo the main problem in small rooms, as far as soundstaging goes, is the quick arrival times for the reflections, es... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Thank you gene3x. I’m going to focus on big issues in this post; nothing against refinements, but imo the big issues need to be addressed first. So here is the big issue when it comes to trying to get a good soundstage across a wide listening ar... | |
| Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K) Hi gene3x, I wasn’t going to post in this thread as I don’t have a clear-cut nomination for “best absolute value” in this price range. But at least four times now you’ve brought up a particular subject that is imo worth exploring on its own: "Okay... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? Peter Noerbaek (PBN)'s new flagship is a horn... and ime it’s an absolutely magnificent speaker. It uses the horn and compression driver from JBL’s M2 studio monitor, with TWO of the same woofers that the JBL uses. To the best of my knowledge this... | |
| Speakers for a very large room? Rich, you might give Eric Alexander of Tekton a call. He makes speakers that can fill a big room and sound very good doing so. I think he may have a demo pair of his big new Ulfberhts for sale. Duke | |
| Speaker Recommendation: 20K range Chandybe, thanks for the additional information. I totally understand preferring to go with a mainstream brand.High power handling in and of itself will not insure "zero chance" of speaker damage if you clip your 500 watt amp. Clipping sends a bur... | |
| Speaker Recommendation: 20K range @tomic601, good observation! With a small direct-selling company, in effect the manufacturer becomes the dealer. But I think having a local dealer would usually be preferable, all else being equal.Most of my work is in prosound. Agreed that 500... |