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KozmoNaut posted:If you're already pleased with the sound of your system, room correction probably isn't going to make a dramatic difference. Well the lintons are reasonably big ported speakers in a relatively small listening room so I'd still be curious if I could tighten up the bass. But in the spirit of the thread I suppose I should be asking what kind of hand carved knobs I can install on the amp to add more air, presence and speed to my Steely Dan and Diana Krall SACDs
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large hands posted:Well the lintons are reasonably big ported speakers in a relatively small listening room so I'd still be curious if I could tighten up the bass. Yeah absolutely. Room correction is most important below the frequency at which the sound waves become more resonant and omnidirectional and create standing waves. Focus on correcting below 300Hz, that's where the biggest gains are. https://hometheaterreview.com/room-correction-revisited/ E: it's not the very best article on room correction, but it covers the importance of room correction mostly below a certain frequency well enough. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Apr 24, 2022 |
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You can also add things to break up echoes like rockwool-stuffed frames that look like art. Really, anything you do to make your room hostile to standing waves/comb filtering the better
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Mr. Mercury posted:You can also add things to break up echoes like rockwool-stuffed frames that look like art. Really, anything you do to make your room hostile to standing waves/comb filtering the better I will not be doing this.
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large hands posted:I will not be doing this. You're going to nail old mattresses up huh? I've been in a anarchist squat studio that had this and it did actually work quite well. Some obvious drawbacks of course
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Adolf Glitter posted:You're going to nail old mattresses up huh? Off the top of my head I can't think of anything apart from potentially the smell
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Jeherrin posted:Off the top of my head I can't think of anything apart from potentially the smell Aesthetics. Also it would actually make a small room noticeably smaller.
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BonHair posted:Aesthetics. Also it would actually make a small room noticeably smaller. So do I 
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Neurophonic posted:Sorry it took me a while to upload these. Hopefully YT hasn’t mangled it too much, or removed the copyrighted tunes: On that second video I love the mic lowering the gain when the subs kick in. Sounds beefy which all good systems should imo. When it comes to stages, are you having to find solutions to fit spaces or are you involved in the design of them? Having wedged speakers into weird room layouts the latter has to be easier but as an AV nerd for work I know that we're never a concern until the last minute when someone figures out they're going to need some.
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large hands posted:I will not be doing this. Just do something like what the Recovering Audiophile did at his new house. https://youtu.be/2Tx_8HE1GvY Animale fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Neurophonic posted:Sorry it took me a while to upload these. Hopefully YT hasn’t mangled it too much, or removed the copyrighted tunes: This was awesome, thank you.
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it's amazing to see digital audio woo-woo still exists, when enormous amounts of ECC fuckery are needed for flash storage to even store and read the bits to begin with.
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Yeah but if you have a tuned flash drive you really can hear the deep tones and fleshed out mids.
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tater_salad posted:fleshed out mids. *inserts media into abdomen* Death to phonodrome! Long live the new flash!
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Reading comments on head-fi saying their new headphone amp doesn’t have ‘fleshed out mids’ through their headphones. Like no, your new amp is clean and your headphone is tuned that way. Don’t blame the amp because it your headphones sound differently to a $6000 tube amp.
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Refusing to accept that you just don't like the headphones you bought is like 95% of amp chat.
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njsykora posted:Refusing to accept that you just don't like the headphones you bought is like 95% of amp chat. but look at us plebs who don't engage in cargo cults of insanely marked up crap
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Audiophile Hate or Audiophile Need? https://news.mit.edu/2022/low-power-thin-loudspeaker-0426 quote:MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source.
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Interesting concept, but needs a fair bit of work to not sound awful. +/- 10db isn't exactly consumer audio friendly But the next revision will be interesting to watch!
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25 volts to get 66dB at 1000hz is hilariously inefficient. That said, experimentation is good so I guess we'll see where this goes (probably nowhere).
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I can't stop laughing, Klipsch boomered the ProMedias
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qirex posted:I can't stop laughing, Klipsch boomered the ProMedias Heresy in the morning Heresy in the evening Heresy at supper time when Heresys are on your desktop you can have Heresy anytime
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Those look a lot like the Advents that my parents had a long rear end time ago.
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qirex posted:I can't stop laughing, Klipsch boomered the ProMedias going to sell so many 
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Qwijib0 posted:going to sell so many https://youtu.be/PVjiKRfKpPI
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gently caress yeah Vinyl 2!quote:“An Ionic Original is the pinnacle of recorded sound,” Burnett said in a statement. “It is archival quality. It is future proof. It is one of one. Not only is an Ionic Original the equivalent of a painting, it is a painting. It is lacquer painted onto an aluminum disc, with a spiral etched into it by music. This painting, however, has the additional quality of containing that music, which can be heard by putting a stylus into the spiral and spinning it.”
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They look awkward, and remind me way too much of the oversized single-driver speakers that some people seem to love.
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qirex posted:I can't tell if I love or hate the new KEF LS60 I think they look neat but 7 grand is steep. I wonder how low their frequency response goes. I would hope that one of those pairs of woofers, if not both, are using the same force cancelling tech as their KC62 subwoofers.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I think they look neat but 7 grand is steep. What-Hifi has the frequency response as 26Hz - 36kHz on their review.
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So realistically 50Hz-20KHz, got it.
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qirex posted:I can't tell if I love or hate the new KEF LS60 It defeats part of the purpose but you could always just hook them to a receiver, right? I'm not sure I've ever even heard a pair of KEFs. Maybe their little bookshelves at a BB. I appreciate the style and form factor but I'm more of a just get a speaker bar for your living room and then do your real media consumption with your enormous ugly speakers in your dark hole of a basement kinda guy.
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KozmoNaut posted:So realistically 50Hz-20KHz, got it. It’s stated as -3dB at 31Hz, -6dB at 26Hz, which fits with the displacement available from the four woofers and the overall cabinet volume. It’s ported at the bottom, which adds a boundary loading effect. I don’t see any reason to doubt the specs in this case. I think it’s very interesting. You’re essentially getting a more refined version of the LS50 Meta with a pair of extended range KC62 subs in a Blade style arrangement. That’s per side. By that metric, the price of £6k a pair is pretty good - the separate smaller boxes to get the same driver count would come to £7.1k. The slim column arrangement should give excellent cabinet edge diffraction behaviour in the horizontal pattern while being large enough in the vertical to push anomalies out of band for most of the mid and high frequency content coming from the frontal driver. There’s also no reason the electronics should be a concern in the future. It’s just a class AB and class D amp module in each cabinet, with a front-end DSP. There are analogue inputs, so even if all of the streaming stuff dies in the next decade, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be functional. KEF’s recent output has been very well engineered and the company has a good design ethos with their ‘reasonable priced’ stuff. A friend got a chance to audition a prototype pair of the LS60 recently and said they’re competing with products costing four to five times as much. He’s no audiophile subjectivist idiot either.
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Neurophonic posted:the price of £6k a pair is pretty good Yeah, no. quote:they’re competing with products costing four to five times as much. So way overpriced speakers competing with insanely overpriced speakers, got it.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, no. What makes you think it’s overpriced? A pair of LS50 Meta are £1100, that is not cheap but also is not insanely expensive. Please don’t tell me you’re someone who only checks the component value & doesn’t account for the costs of actually doing proper R&D. Especially considering that the majority of salaries in audio engineering are quite low compared to other engineering disciplines. If you assume there are 5 people in the product development division with a salary range of £30-70k per annum. They need three seats of MATLAB, COMSOL & SolidWorks, which is a fixed cost of approximately £35k each including a decent workstation to run the stuff. Add in a reasonably sized hemi-anechoic chamber or two for testing components and cabinets, a Klippel QC system, microphones and the like at £250k+ setup cost. We probably want a demo or auditioning room for subjective assessment, some workbenches, CNC plus ongoing premises outgoings like rent, electricity and so on. We haven’t even touched the software or manufacture side of the business. You don’t have to do it this way, of course. I am fully aware that you can get some truly excellent speakers for <£1000 a box, but those folk are often using off-the-shelf components and contractors for the design work, or able to use the economies of scale & facilities due to being part of an international conglomerate group. Plus it is a business. It should make profit. Typical margins in audio products below the utterly insane stuff such as Magico & the proper ‘audiophile woo’ run from 20% to 40%, for what it’s worth. Neurophonic fucked around with this message at 16:56 on May 14, 2022 |
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Neurophonic posted:What makes you think it’s overpriced? The £6k price tag.
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