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The KF92 and KC62 have the same sort of limiting DSP. Beyond about 85dB SPL, further increases to level won't raise the lowest frequencies as much. But as the KF92 is physically bigger and more capable (by about 5dB), its limiter is less aggressive. Here are some REW/UMIK-1 measurements of my...

R2 always had the same 130mm (5.25") bass drivers as the R5. Presumably R6 has the 165mm (6.5") ones like the R7 (or R3 or R11), and correspondingly bigger cabinet. This configuration has always been conspicuously missing in the 2018 R range - it used to be there as the R600C in the previous...

This one, at least, only outputs the same streams a Blu-ray player would output over its SPDIF output, so no. It's just adds the missing output connectors to HDMI-only devices that lack them.

And the THD of the speakers will be massively higher than normal at the volume levels where the pre-amp output starts to suffer. The SINAD performance drop-off that the pre-out is suffering due to the internal amps clipping is nothing compared to the SINAD performance drop-off of the speakers...

Well, you don't know that until you've measured it, do you?

It's a tad high from the specs, but I guess it's about right. Power supply loss is specced at 9W typical, and each 1ET400A module should be 1.7W, plus 0.4W for the trigger module, so that's 12.8W. So that's 4 watts left over for input buffers and LEDs.

"idle power consumption" How to confuse people... And I immediately assumed we're talking idle, not standby, because 16.8 watts is a bit on the high side even for idle. If that's supposed to be standby, I'd say it's faulty.

Idle is not standby.

The two of you are kind of talking at cross purposes. Dlaloum and the research being described are assuming proper video displays that strobe, avoiding the sample-and-hold blur flaw. If you're sampling-and-holding, you've injected a new problem, which needs higher frame rate (real or...

My guess is that they know that people tend to do frequency test sweeps and calibrate at up to 85dB, which is why they chose that cut-off point (for the LS60). I think they'd try to do the same for the LS50, because... If they were to have lower bass at calibration level than at some lower...

Yes, that bass extension will be volume dependent. I've not seen the graphs for the LS50, but I've seen ones for the LS60 showing that the bass extension starts to reduce above 85dB SPL. (So at maximum level of 105dB, the curves would likely be the same shape).

Oops, had that the wrong way round. Stereo says it has two A700s, mono one A400.

Yeah, I'm assuming Apollon just put up the module power ratings - I don't see how they'd be achieving them in their assembly. The pages are inconsistent - the PET950 monoblock says it's using the A700, while the stereo says it's using the A400. The A700 wouldn't work at all, and the A400 won't...

Just to make clear what I'm talking about - it's this sort of thing: Nothing there is about "mass". It's thermal conductivity across the heat spreader and up the pipes (hence copper), then then area on the fins.

Only until the whole thing reaches thermal equilibrium. Once the more massive case has absorbed all the extra energy, you'll have a big hot heatsink and the core will be at the same temperature as it would be with a small hot heatsink. Mass just increases the time it takes to reach that...

Computer coolers are very much the opposite of "big blocks of metal". They're extremely high surface area, and minimal structurally-sound mass for that area. Only real blocky mass is in the heat pipes.

I'm not sure I'd expect the LS50 Meta to cope with 106dB continuous - I doubt that would be the (professional?) "Continuous Power Rating" referred to in that piece. The 106dB is stated as "maximum", and I'd assume that was already short-term or peak. 100W versus 126W is just 105dB versus 106dB...

There's no problem whatsoever, people just get a bit weird about using smart speakers as dumb ones. The worst problem I can see is that their volume can't be locked to avoid accidental trim budging. (But you know what the volume should be - 71 - so you can just reset it if it gets nudged)...

I saw the investigation of this somewhere else, and I was the one who suggested this "average gain of limited EQ band is zero" thing might be happening on main channel, mirroring what the sub does. (Perhaps because the algorithm got reused...)...

I doubt it - the manual's not clear what goes out of those digital outs, but I doubt it's a post-Audyssey, post-bass-managment, post-volume signal for L/R.