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Why Synergy horns?
Would you say the most essential aspects of your criticism on the Raidho's have been covered in your post above? The manufacturer's unwillingness to accept your criticism in the youtube review confounds me, as other review members expressed a nigh on perfect speaker to their ears, and so one...- Jägerst.
- Post #277
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?
These are interesting areas to experiment with vertical vs. horizontal bi-amping, not least in conjunction with hybrid or identical amp pairings. Vertical config. naturally necessitates identical amps in the frequency range they've been designated to handle per channel, but using the same... -
What is the most musical, fast and accurate subwoofer you have heard?
Lack of directionality in the lower octaves is one thing, the lack of bass sources is another; more bass sources mean an acoustically smoother response, and so I'd try and squeeze in a pair at least - a bit smaller in size, perhaps. However, I've never been a fan of asymmetrically placed...- Jägerst.
- Post #157
- Forum: Subwoofers
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Building a world-class Horn system for Small Rooms
First, thanks for posting and showing your setup - beautiful horn speakers! What's the driver(s) and its size used in the bass horn, if I may ask? On your quoted section above, not sure I agree. Movie sound reproduction can be quite a daunting task for a speaker with its wide dynamic range... -
Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?
Indeed, most any speaker can come across sounding "off" if only heard once - not least at a show. I've heard several ATC models in different contexts sounding anything but "lean and bright" - that's not at all their inherent imprinting from what I've heard. My point is that not least actively... -
Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?
Not everyone would agree on ATC speakers being a bad fit in a domestic setting. I've heard ATC's in different iterations, rooms and systems - active, passive and different sizes/models - and it goes without saying they're not only very revealing of the source material, but as well the source... -
Robert Harley on "How to Choose Loudspeakers"
I'm in absolute agreement with you on this, @Ron Resnick. That is, my only contention, in effect, is limiting your field of criteria to "high-end audio stores;" if one is really on a mission to find out about the sound one likes, then he or she should open up that field to really not be about...- Jägerst.
- Post #54
- Forum: Speaker, Subwoofer And Headphone Audio Forum
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Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?
No build thread yet, but I guess such could surface eventually. As I said, the basic setup framework I got already, and it's very satisfying as is. I'm sure many an audiophile would scoff at industrial looking, actively configured cinema speakers, studio amps and behemoth sized tapped horn subs... -
Is Your Loudspeaker Perfect For You?
No, not quite there yet, but these last few years I've been focussing more on getting the basic, physical outlines of a speaker system in place; as in prodigious displacement area top to bottom, high efficiency, relatively unrestricted frequency range (i.e.: honest ~20-18kHz) with full tilt... -
Why Synergy horns?
This. Before those who would go on to criticize a DSP-based setup as a general stance, it seems at least part of the fallacy here is not realizing the flaws passive crossovers themselves introduce, and which also and not least - apart from what's brought up in above quote - includes the negative...- Jägerst.
- Post #193
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
Serving sub-duties only, or is there a midbass section as well?- Jägerst.
- Post #179
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
@schlager already explained the rationale behind the "filler driver," so won't get into that, but the Synergy horn is way smart in that it sums the output of its different drivers into a single point source with no driver-transitional issues. Myself I plan on going the Synergy route down the...- Jägerst.
- Post #177
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
Remember what a DSP potentially replaces rather than being an addition per se (more an that later). If you're using an existing, passively configured speaker setup and want to implement digital room correction via a DSP, then yes you're adding a processing layer in the digital domain...- Jägerst.
- Post #158
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
Ah, as they say: the plot thickens ;) Well, do you believe it's a generally accepted stance here at What Best Forum that an analogue source and overall pathway is necessarily superior to a (partially) digital ditto? You did stress "from my listening tests," so at least it would seem you're...- Jägerst.
- Post #153
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Why Synergy horns?
While at least part of your reply to @schlager is in a different context (i.e.: the particular usage) here, I'd like to point out that DSP isn't only about digital room correction in the amplitude and time domain, but can as well act simply and exclusively as a digital crossover in a fully...- Jägerst.
- Post #141
- Forum: Speaker Design
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Paul McGowan on Horn Loudspeakers
The tapped horn subs are 97dB sensitive, but being they're both corner mounted it's rather somewhat above 100dB's. Listening levels vary quite a lot, from the 70's average to the occasional +100dB peaks. Sensitivity rating isn't always a giveaway with regards to the power needed, certainly not... -
Paul McGowan on Horn Loudspeakers
It's a classic case leveled against horn-based speakers with regard to their lack of imaging abilities, and not entirely without merit, it seems. However, is the typically more laid-back, less-than-life-sized, über sharply cut and 3D holographic imaging that's often ascribed to low efficiency... -
Paul McGowan on Horn Loudspeakers
I assume you're referring to a horn-hybrid example with a direct radiating, moderately efficient woofer section coupled to a high eff. horn ditto? And by multi-way do you mean actively? With a, say, 110dB sensitive midrange/tweeter horn obviously you can get by with very little amp power for... -
Paul McGowan on Horn Loudspeakers
Horn speakers are a vast many things; horn-hybrids (like they are, most of them), all-horns, large, very large, not so large, bonkers expensive, not so expensive, cheap, well-implemented, not so well implemented, astonishing sounding, good sounding, blah sounding, outright horrid sounding... -
Pro studio power amps
Old thread, but thought I'd just chime in with my pro amp experience. Currently I'm using three MC² Audio T-series amps - one T1500, and two T2000 - that is: a T2000, T1500 and T2000 from top to bottom in a 3-way fully actively configured setup. Excellent amps. A T2000 has replaced a Belles SA30...- Jägerst.
- Post #22
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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Color me puzzled. The Klipsch La Scalas sound bloody marvelous!
As half or even quarter waves very low frequencies can be audibly realized in smaller spaces that don't carry their full wave lengths, but as you point to they're likely modes, and as such more or less controllable - be that with either or a combination of proper placement of more that one bass... -
Color me puzzled. The Klipsch La Scalas sound bloody marvelous!
Owned a pair of Simon Mears Audio Uccello's until recently. They're an homage to the Klipsch Belle, meaning essentially the same bass horn but everything else is different/better; from drivers to cross-overs and overall construction quality. Lovely speakers, but the bass horn is really too small... -
What are the Sonic Trade-offs in Using Low/ High and Tube vs. SS with High Efficiency Speakers?
Conversely I'd ask you (not to be polemic about this, but merely inquiring further into your dislike for SS amps coupled to horns), what your range of knowledge with SS amps coupled to horns covers; what type of SS amps and whether they were implemented passively or actively with the horns? I'm...- Jägerst.
- Post #25
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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What are the Sonic Trade-offs in Using Low/ High and Tube vs. SS with High Efficiency Speakers?
Again, my experience with horns (horn hybrids and all-horns) + SS amps has been most rewarding with actively configured setups, where I find amp principle matters less (and where they sound much better) than with passively configured speakers. Below 4-500Hz - at least IMHO and specific setup...- Jägerst.
- Post #21
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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Paul McGowan on Horn Loudspeakers
Thanks for initiating this thread, Ron, and for your counter reply to Mr. McGowan. Paul is correct that with only low wattage tube amps available back in the day, speakers had to be very efficient to convert those meager watts into high acoustic output, and hence they needed to be horn-loaded... -
What Brands of Cables to Fans of High-Efficiency Speakers Use? (Not Hi-fi Sounding!)
Some years back I bought and tried out the rather popular Duelund DCA16GA cables on a pair of high efficiency speakers (Simon Mears Audio Uccello's), and as standalone, single-wire cables (only one pair of terminals per speaker) I found they had a very expressive, informative, organic midrange...- Jägerst.
- Post #20
- Forum: Audio Cable Forum
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What are the Sonic Trade-offs in Using Low/ High and Tube vs. SS with High Efficiency Speakers?
Agreed, but this microscopic tendency of horns as very revealing instruments also applies to the adverse effects of the passive filter components themselves, as well as cables, overall filter implementation, etc. Maybe that's implied in what you write, but I certainly find active config. with SS...- Jägerst.
- Post #19
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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What are the Sonic Trade-offs in Using Low/ High and Tube vs. SS with High Efficiency Speakers?
Never heard the actively configured, horn-loaded speakers with SET's combo, but can only imagine it being wonderful sounding. Which SS amps did you try using on your horns, and which horns? Passively, actively? Speaker cables? Myself I use a Belles SA30 pure Class-A solid state amp on the...- Jägerst.
- Post #18
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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What are the Sonic Trade-offs in Using Low/ High and Tube vs. SS with High Efficiency Speakers?
To me it's come down to a contrasting of two approaches: one of using passively configured high efficiency speakers with low(er) wattage tube amps, and the other using actively configured high eff. speakers with solid state amps. From my chair the potentially best sounding option is that of the...- Jägerst.
- Post #16
- Forum: Power Amplifiers and Preamplifiers Forum
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What are the Top Horn Speakers in the World Today? Vox Olympian vs Avantgarde Trio vs ???
Power loss-wise low to moderately efficient speakers are the ones most susceptible to negative effects with passive filters. On the other hand high eff. horn-loaded speakers are more revealing of what's fed to them, and running them passively only makes amp matching that more difficult. Moreover...
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