Audioholics reviewed and measured it.Has anybody ever listened to Don Keele's Epique from Dayton Audio? Always eyed the thing...
https://www.audioholics.com/tower-speaker-reviews/epique-cbt24
Audioholics reviewed and measured it.Has anybody ever listened to Don Keele's Epique from Dayton Audio? Always eyed the thing...
Audioholics reviewed and measured it.
https://www.audioholics.com/tower-speaker-reviews/epique-cbt24
Has anybody ever listened to Don Keele's Epique from Dayton Audio? Always eyed the thing...
Welcome to the Harman church, we hope you have a good time:
JBL CBT line array columns installed at The Heath Methodist Church as part of complete Harman solution
The Grateful Dead tried this on a grand scale-Well, if they can reproduce a decent sound in that space, I'm impressed.
But let's consider, line style arrays of PA speakers were used for decades in sound reinforcement, live vocal/speech amplification and general public address. This is just a curved version of a line array, with a little tweaking.
@amirm The measured performance doesn't really correlate with your strong recommendation IMO.
Perhaps the novelty, unconventional design and the CBT 'magic' is influencing you? Based on your measurements, I wouldn't bother with these for anything other than a small exhibition or conference room, but certainly not in the home. What do you think?
line style arrays of PA speakers were used for decades in sound reinforcement, live vocal/speech amplification and general public address. This is just a curved version of a line array, with a little tweaking.
Those beautiful things here are responsible for my biggest auditory disappointment yet. I really wanted to love them, but just couldn't. I think I ended up leaving the demo long before it finished - a first for me.If you are not into DIY and maybe find that that JBLs are not all that impressive, McIntosh makes comparable (CBT-like) claims for their XRTs...
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A member bought a pair of the smaller XRT1Ks used. He offered to have Amir evaluate, but I think getting it into the test fixture was an issue. Something about Amir's back I recall. Maybe his insurance company too.
I hadn't noticed that the tweeter is no longer available. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I will edit my first post in this thread.
If one of my speakers left Dennis speechless, it would have been the big brother to the skylarks, which I refer to as the Radicals. Dennis heard the skylarks, but I don't think he managed to really get past the spectral balance issues. They are designed to be augmented with a subwoofer, but I don't believe he had one handy. Also, I believe he thought the tilt I added was excessive. So he ended up listening to a speaker that he felt had no highs, and no lows. In contrast, my co-worker found the skylarks with the spectral tilt were still perceived as slightly brighter than his Definitive Technology towers (which the skylarks replaced).
I own CBT24s and the soundstage is great. They do need subwoofers, but mine are in my home theater, so already had. There is a Sound and Vision review here: https://www.soundandvision.com/content/dayton-audio-epique-cbt24-speaker-system-review
They are slim, but do take up some space due to the curvature. Mine were Parts Express closeouts and are no longer available. The JBLs are the only remaining commercial offering, but some others have plans. See this thread: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...dth-transducer-cbt-speakers.12060/post-351042
It is not a tiny source. You have the full height of the speaker as far as vertical alignment. Is this what you were asking?
I wonder if this is an artifact of the spinorama measuring system - against the unique design of the speaker? I say that because that is not my experience in person. I can sit on the floor in my room, chair, stand, walk right up to the speaker and anywhere in between and it all sounds the same. In person I would not have guessed there was a focused beam of vertical dispersion. I can’t really wrap my head around that from my subjective experience. I’ll take a video with my cell phone of a speaker playing and move my phone vertically in front of it to try to pick up how it works with vertical dispersion on video footage and share the link.I don’t get the narrow vertical dispersion too.
How is this "full height" of the speaker when the graph show only one beam.
Amir’s graphs are set to 10m distance (SPL adjusted to 1m), so at that super far distance, while a traditional speaker wouldn’t matter as long as it’s in the far-field, this speaker obviously is not traditional; so I think if Amir recomputes it at a normal listening distance (say 3m) that it would look more sensible.I wonder if this is an artifact of the spinorama measuring system - against the unique design of the speaker. I say that because that is not my experience in person. I can sit on the floor in my room, chair, stand, walk right up to the speaker and anywhere in between and it all sounds the same. In person I would never have guessed there was a focused beam of vertical dispersion. I can’t really wrap my head around that from my subjective experience. I’ll take a video with my cell phone of a speaker playing and move my phone vertically in front of it to try to pick up how it works with vertical dispersion on video footage and share the link.