Recent content by Ivanovich

Adding a ridiculous contribution to this… I say ridiculous because clearly the producer, engineer, mastering engineer were all out to lunch on this mix!

I agree this is true but it’s always going to be a tough nut to crack! Regardless, the placement is more important than the qty. I think there is merit in multiple subs to “smear” the standing waves to get a flatter frequency response in the lowest octave. Mains can also produce low...

Go with 8 subs, one in each corner!

Ha! That’s Old Town EC. Thankfully, no flooding where we live.

I am nearing retirement and also considering a move to Europe, Spain,Portugal, or Italy. Most of the legal requirements are doable and I am fluent in Spanish, so learning Italian or Portuguese should not be a stretch. Your ability to arrive empty handed is a huge advantage to making it happen...

It’s a medium sized listening area of the basement, 15’x17’x7.5’ in an open larger space finished basement. About 87db, which matches the KEF and the Dayton RSS265HF-4 10” woofer. I’d start to look at crossing the woofer and mid at about 150-200Hz The room also has 4 12” subwoofers strewn...

Great thread! I’m now thinking of picking up a pair of open box Q150s for ~$260/pr to source the Coaxial drivers. I’d pay that for one Scan-Speak Revelator! I’d add use them in a 3-way DIY design using a pair of Hypex Fusion Amp FA123, 3-channel plate amps with DSP for X-over and EQ, and 10”...

Being basically deaf above 9K with tinnitus seems unfixable. However, I find the brain fills in what‘a missing very well and most music doesn’t have much above 10K. I once tried EQ’ing up the frequencies where I had less sensitivity and the result was that those frequencies were over...

Lamp wire works just fine. The electrons don’t care how much you paid for the wires!

GAS is a real thing!

I’d say soundstage is primarily produced by the stereophonic or multi-channel system, including the room. Measuring differences between channels (L/R) could reveal alteration of what one perceives as soundstage. Also, a room with a highly absorptive side opposite a reflective side should also...

I wouldn’t discount sealed box speakers, they may actually work better in your small space and they will have better transient response. With such a small space you are going to get plenty of room lift (support for low frequencies), making it ideal for non-ported speakers. A 3m^2 room, with two...

Ignoring speakers with objective woeful performance - Because despite the design choices, they are going to be put in a room, everyone of which will be different. Add to that user preference. It’s not sad, it’s reality.

Yep, I’d say the blame lays as much with the speakers as the amp.

Based on my experience it would depend on the speakers used. I was using cheap, 8-ohm speakers with exaggerated high end. Performance was audibly bad compared to an old Yamaha Class A/B receiver. (Why match $60 amp with $1000 speaker?)