F6B.
Received today. Once dispatched, delivery was very quick and sooner than estimate. Departed AsciLab late Wednesday, arrived Friday morning, Korea to Australia.
Early impressions, very positive. Used without subs so far, 3.5x3.5x2.4m room (some treatment of makeshift insulation batts).
Speakers up against the wall, pretty much pointing to my head - "on axis". They're on stands, kinda high, with my ears a little below the tweeter.
Decided to put a 48db/Octave high pass at 33hz, as it seems from some low volume sine tones that they would only make kinda flappy unproductivity sounds if there were content lower than that (flappy sound perhaps mostly from the passive radiator).
I'm delighted, but I guess unsurprised that the mids and especially upper zone is so smooth, with slight down-tilt. I've always had to eq down higher freq with other speakers. I seem to prefer this - no treble boost, and slight downtilt. what a surprise. most recent previous speakers in here were JBL Studio S26 - which I reckon are pretty darn decent good oldies (and better than JBL Studio 630).
Orange is in room moving mic measurement, no eq with both speakers playing, at about 2m listening distance. (grey is a generic "harman"ish room target)
Above 700hz is stupendously lovely "looking". and sounds "right" and great as such.
I ended up adding 2 quick filters around 90hz and 150 hz, resulting in the green line. It is a small but good improvement.
(The dip around 60hz is almost certainly room related - has always been there with other speakers too, and ends up largely solved with a pair of old but good 8"x2 tower speakers that I put to use as "subs". and do well down to about 25hz.)
nice to do so little and have really nice tonality.
Sensitivity seems great actually - probably cause with other speakers, i've always had to eq-attenuate quite a bit to have them not be bright or have midrange annoyances.
Cool and amazing that one little tweeter does everything +1khz.
Looks likely that when i reintroduce them, the subs will be crossing at ~80hz.
Too early to really comment on any particular "imaging" illusions.
Related to earlier above post about tweeter QC (or not, as it were) - with umik-1 sweeps of each speaker, at about 87dB from 2m distance, the distortion showing in REW above 1khz is indeed very very low - where it's greyed out, does that mean it's basically below the noisefloor (brown colour)?? White line is THD.
Here's distortion of just one speaker ~87dB @2m. I don't have any real understanding of this, or how reliable it is with umik-1 in REW.
and why not, here's a spectogram, no eq, just the 33hz high pass, both speakers playing about 87dB-A/93dB-C.
Received today. Once dispatched, delivery was very quick and sooner than estimate. Departed AsciLab late Wednesday, arrived Friday morning, Korea to Australia.
Early impressions, very positive. Used without subs so far, 3.5x3.5x2.4m room (some treatment of makeshift insulation batts).
Speakers up against the wall, pretty much pointing to my head - "on axis". They're on stands, kinda high, with my ears a little below the tweeter.
Decided to put a 48db/Octave high pass at 33hz, as it seems from some low volume sine tones that they would only make kinda flappy unproductivity sounds if there were content lower than that (flappy sound perhaps mostly from the passive radiator).
I'm delighted, but I guess unsurprised that the mids and especially upper zone is so smooth, with slight down-tilt. I've always had to eq down higher freq with other speakers. I seem to prefer this - no treble boost, and slight downtilt. what a surprise. most recent previous speakers in here were JBL Studio S26 - which I reckon are pretty darn decent good oldies (and better than JBL Studio 630).
Orange is in room moving mic measurement, no eq with both speakers playing, at about 2m listening distance. (grey is a generic "harman"ish room target)
Above 700hz is stupendously lovely "looking". and sounds "right" and great as such.
I ended up adding 2 quick filters around 90hz and 150 hz, resulting in the green line. It is a small but good improvement.
(The dip around 60hz is almost certainly room related - has always been there with other speakers too, and ends up largely solved with a pair of old but good 8"x2 tower speakers that I put to use as "subs". and do well down to about 25hz.)
nice to do so little and have really nice tonality.
Sensitivity seems great actually - probably cause with other speakers, i've always had to eq-attenuate quite a bit to have them not be bright or have midrange annoyances.
Cool and amazing that one little tweeter does everything +1khz.
Looks likely that when i reintroduce them, the subs will be crossing at ~80hz.
Too early to really comment on any particular "imaging" illusions.
Related to earlier above post about tweeter QC (or not, as it were) - with umik-1 sweeps of each speaker, at about 87dB from 2m distance, the distortion showing in REW above 1khz is indeed very very low - where it's greyed out, does that mean it's basically below the noisefloor (brown colour)?? White line is THD.
Here's distortion of just one speaker ~87dB @2m. I don't have any real understanding of this, or how reliable it is with umik-1 in REW.
and why not, here's a spectogram, no eq, just the 33hz high pass, both speakers playing about 87dB-A/93dB-C.
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