Recent content by dfuller

Any decent DAC can drive them properly. Yeah, it's the older 20ASL Pro. They use a standard MDF box now. Don't think there was much if any sonic change, but the MDF is certainly cheaper - and they make most of their cabinets in house now, which for obvious reasons they can't do with cast aluminum.

They did change to a more typical cabinet, yes. I can't say I noticed that compression when I demoed, but I also don't get that loud.

I mean, not really. My KH420s beat out SCM50s handily... and I like the SCM50s.

Very few. What's confusing is that the dual suspension in theory would let them drop the crossover point substantially (which IMO would be preferable on the 3 way, LR4 at 3k instead of 3.5k would improve the response around there a lot).

yeah, pharmaceuticals are held to an entirely different standard than stuff like loudspeakers tbh. And yes, I'd bet money a huge amount of cost is paying their (skilled) employees. Unrelated: That tweeter waveguide/flange is much deeper than I thought - I had thought it was closer to some of...

It looks to be in a pretty good state to me. Workstations clean, highly skilled assembly workers, and I guess they test every single driver with a Klippel QC rig which is pretty neat.

Turns out passives actually have steeper roll-off than vented cabinets, which means greater group delay and somewhat worse transient behavior. Whether or not this is audible is another question, but it's certainly the case that it exists. In a ported design you have a 4th order roll-off -...

A typical 2-way speaker (one with a tweeter and a woofer) crosses the tweeter to the midwoofer usually somewhere between 1500 to 4000hz. When you don't have a midrange, the midrange is divided between the tweeter and the woofer - lower going to the woofer, higher to the tweeter. You don't need a...

Source: "trust me, bro"

It's closer to 5-7 usually, from what I can see. Regardless... you're still looking at ~7-10 drivers for an equivalent radiating area as a relatively small midrange, and that just doesn't make sense to me, it doesn't really have any benefits vs a more conventional design. Part of the advantage...

I viscerally hate this on a basic human level.

Hell, for the same money you could get SCM50s (the best balanced of the bunch, IMO) and a pair of subs and still have money left over.

Well, I guess Andrew Jones and I agree, since I noted the same thing on the first page of this thread.

Well, look at that. Erin has receipts that he was threatened with legal action. The change in measurement axis and the feet made almost no difference - changes of maybe a dB at most. @Eric Alexander you should be ashamed of yourself for what you've done.

Wow, that's impressive. Is this your own project?