Keith_W
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Have you ever thought of selling your main speakers system to start again? Yes, with everything that you now know...
I will never sell these speakers. I mean, who is going to buy them? Some of the modifications are irreversible, e.g. the woofer replacement where the actual cabinet has been modified. If I get a new pair of speakers, I will still keep these but put them in storage somewhere.
There are no speakers on the market that fit my list of needs: point source, good directivity, looks good enough to be placed in a living room, and NO PORTS. I hate ports! Sorry, that is a pet peeve of mine. I was considering KEF Blades but it has a couple of drawbacks - firstly the passive crossover is inside the speaker and looks as if it is difficult to access it to bypass it. That by itself is not a dealbreaker. But what IS a dealbreaker are the ports. I was thinking of writing to KEF and asking them if they could deliver a pair of Blades with no passive XO and no ports, but decided that is too much of a bother. Because otherwise, they would be the perfect speaker - looks great, and juuust enough flaws for me to have fun with.
If I had bought Genelecs all those years ago, I would have had better sound than what I am getting now. But the problem with Genelec is - they are too perfect. Having to deal with problems taught me a LOT. I wouldn't have learnt all this stuff if I owned Genelecs, because there is nothing to fix.
Great system.
And I thought that you, the main contributors of ASR, had put the whole set away in the closet for some time now, to deal with and worry only about measurements!!!
then I see your system, I saw in a JBL review the one about " director” and I am amazed that you also use tubes, double amplifications and 60 kilogram giants….
I listen to more sine waves than music actually Last week I spent a few hours doing measurements, and after that 30 minutes listening to music. I can tell how audible an intervention is by how long it takes me to pick it up. If I hear the difference immediately, it is a huge intervention. If it takes me a long time, it is more subtle. Some of these interventions don't show up in conventional measurements, e.g. I changed the slope of the woofer/horn crossover to a gentle one to avoid the sudden change in directivity. The on-axis FR plot looks exactly the same, because I made it look the same. Even the off-axis FR plot looks similar. But then, I know that my measurements are compromised so I have to listen. And there is quite a nice improvement, the woofer and horn seems more "tied in".
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