phusis
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| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @andy2 -- Active has some good advantages, but the complexity and the inflexibility make them not worth the trouble. That’s why a majority of speakers are and will still be passive. Actives as bundled packages aren't complex, on the contrary. The... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @georgehifi -- As with analog active xover in the mids and highs, you’ll have at least a dozen more opamps pots, switches powersupplies interconnects etc etc in the signal path, and to me the that’s opposite of what you just said, there’s more di... | |
| Your thoughts on active loudspeakers @seadogs1 -- I have been looking at several active loudspeakers, Heavenly soundworks, Buchardt, and, and KEF LS50 wireless II. Any thoughts on these or are there others you think are better? Thanks!!!Bundled active speakers such as ATC come recomm... | |
| Best sub for music, @jheppe815 -- 18’s in a home? That seems illogical and nonsense. However, those cones simply don’t move at low to moderate levels. Again, goes back to what mijostyn states about low distortion levels when the cones (air pistons really) are not mov... | |
| Best sub for music, @mijostyn --I do not know where this differentiation between home theater subwoofers and HiFi subwoofers came from. There are good subwoofers and bad subwoofers. Perhaps home theater people tend to buy bad subwoofers. Good subwoofers will do anyth... | |
| Subwoofer Footing - Connect or Isolate? @mijostyn --The last thing you want to do is put a subwoofer on springs. At some low frequency it will start shaking. Vibration/shaking in any speaker equals distortion. @avanti1960 -- Speakers and subwoofers like to be solidly mounted to add st... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” No proper horn is shouty. Cheap undersized poorly designed horns over a ported box can have issues since midrange is so much more efficient most compromised to make them smaller cheaper. A proper horn is fully front horn loaded to at least 100hz... | |
| Do active speakers have high THD amplifiers? @ashoka --... My question is which audiophile active speakers have better amplifier specifications. Active, bundled speakers are often claimed to have "matched" amp-to-driver implementation, but much of this is a gimmick, I find. With active co... | |
| Adding Home Theater To 2 Channel System I'd replicate the advice/sentiment shared already and forego a center channel. If ever that route would have to be taken the only true solution would be 3 equal front speakers, period, but then you'd need a perforated screen + projector for that t... | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt @atmasphere --...I have a lower powered Radio Shack amp that sounds fine as long as you don’t push it hard. It tends to make the 2nd harmonic as its primary distortion product and that masks a good deal of the higher orders. But at higher volume l... | |
| Buying used: how old is too old? Looking at a pro/studio speaker manufacturer like ATC they’re pretty much unchanged and cut from the same piece of cloth for more than 4 decades now, the most noteworthy changes being their newer, self-developed tweeter design, the Super Linear ma... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. @djones51 --I prefer the former but I’m not a DIY guy and I don’t want to fry a speaker using the wrong parameters. I know some have used different amps and tweaked the settings for JBL M2’s but setting up actives with DSP crossovers is more than ... | |
| Thoughts on Active/Passive Speakers? Looking for pros and cons. I'll second poster @fiesta75's first reply above. Active at its core is simply defined by having the cross-over placed prior to amplification and acting on signal level, instead of it receiving the output power from the amp on the receiving end be... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component A lot of things matter, but not all equally - I’d say that goes without saying, or it should. Implementation on the other hand is wholly important. To say speakers are the least important because they’re at the end of the signal chain is just rubb... | |
| Speakers The single most critical component @lonemountain -- Efficiency is NOT the only thing that matters in engines or drivers. And yet it's rarely prioritized or recognized as even ONE of the core parameters in speaker engineering. From product management experience at JBL and with ... |