Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the Informations.
Yes, these are also my thoughts. But I don't want to speculate on that, since I don't have the qualifications to judge the power electronics circuit design. I just wanted to share the information since I think few people are willing to disassemble their factory new speakers and maybe there is someone amongst our ranks that is qualified enough to comment on this design choice. I also have photos of the PCB but I will only share these if there is someone, who can actually derive anything useful from that.
How does the noise compare to the old Focal Alpha? I know them, and unlike their successors, they're not exactly the quietest monitors out there, they would bother me as computer speakers. If the Orbits are similar or even worse that would be a deal breaker.
It'd be great if you could share them, I'd like to see what caps they use since the whole Neumamnn debate is still going on.
The noise on the Orbit is much more noticeable. Especially since it's much broader in bandwidth.
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Quite the opposite. The placement in the room is selected specifically for listening. Response is flat plusminus 2.5dB across the whole bandwidth at listening position. I enjoy a target with a slight bass bump for more impact.Using the speaker with 2.5m listening distance in a large room, I cannot agree to the near-field statement. Below is a comparison of max SPL with Neumann KH150/310. You can see my comments in the linked thread.
It's the first time that I read someone actually boosting the bass for Orbits. Maybe non-optimum speaker placement without any room gain? I can see that with bass-boost one may reach SPL limits. With the speakers close to the rear wall, bass surely requires no boost for monitoring purpose.
Yet another Neumann KH150 vs KH310 thread, or any other speaker, for my room and goals
1. Room size: - Length: 4.7m - Width: 3.5m - Height: 3m 2. Treatment: - 40cm Soffit bass traps on all 4 corners + on wall to ceiling on the back corner - 20cm acoustic panels on the sides and front wall. 3. Listening position is 190cm equal triangle Currently I have the HS7 which are really...
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So you chose the placement for flat response w/o EQ and then added the bass bump?
But then it will be uneven.
Yes
But the limiter is not kicking in. But the point of non linearity is reached quite early on the subs. It’s fine at 80ish spl but I wouldn’t want to drive constantly at 90 or more.
So meanwhile low-end distortion has become an issue? Close-wall room gain, which can be >6dB, will reduce distortion once compensated. That's the whole point.
That’s how I use them. It’s have them connected to an ADI 2/4 Pro and an ARC Studio. I played around with highpass from 25-40Hz but didn’t notice much of an improvement in any case. Non linearity stays basically the same sans the frequencies that are cut off. But above cutoff it stays the same so it stands to reason that the „critical“ frequencies are even higher than that. I have yet to test that.
It hasn’t been an issue for my use case but it would be an issue if I were to drive these at higher levels. Which I won’t since they’re plenty loud.
I am stating observations, not issues. The only actual issue for me is the noise (and the defective AES). Everything else is just playing around and testing for the sake of it.
Don't let the fanbois stop your reporting.
