Recommendation for near field listening at moderate levels

[Bruce Morgen]

No it's pasive fixed point 80 Hz high pass on those not Pro SVS and pretty much any other budget one. You lose a lot of SNR by going trough it and while it doesn't matter for a sub, for mains it does. Usually even on higher tire equipment ADC is worrisome part and DSP is far from flexible. With patience and not limited in anything (expect filters that you can apply only once) you can achieve much better results in transition area and transitions for filters such as self low in equal loudness mimicking role and so on. As knew for it is at 105 Hz crossover neads to be a top of it and we'll as it's directional there for 2.2. By now it sounds like simplified Chinese even we didn't touched it in deep or seriously.

Sorry, this reads more like word salad than "simplified Chinese." Thanks for trying to get through to me, though -- I appreciate the effort! Aside from tuning to the room, adding a sub to a stereo speaker pair seems like a slam dunk from here, but no doubt there is something to be said for a more elaborate approach involving a "true multichannel DAC." For the record and FWIW, after discussing the issue with both Kali and SVS support folks, I decided to ignore the sub's high-pass function and simply set the sub's low pass to 60 Hz, which was the alternative suggested by Kali after factoring in the IN-8 woofer's low-end roll-off. As our British friends might say, that seems to "work a treat" here. Peace!

 

[ZolaIII]

@Bruce Morgen simply fun is fun and gone is gone when you apply pass filter and so therefore you copy L or R or both to separate chenel and then do it. It cannot loop it. Math model (I prefer Butterwort) in front of you on nice display and calibrated mic while not being limited by classical PEQ filter numbers and towards actual in room response (determining the crossover slope order) helps a lot. At 60 Hz it's all only one big standing wave with full sum what ever you trow in it. Main importance aspect of using high pass is improving THD or SPL capacity of mains by trimming them down to what woofer does on it self and actually over that. I won't start about time domain or order of room refractions and good levels.

 

[Bruce Morgen]

I won't start about time domain or order of room refractions and good levels.

Much appreciated.

 

[Erici]

Hello. Im setting up a budget system for listening in my wfh office. The speakers would be at ear level, maybe one meter from me.
I have a ZD3 DAC and would be getting a single ZA3 amp for this use.
I had 3 sets of speakers in mind, but i dont know if they are any good for this use case. In no particular order:

1- Elac Debut 5.2
2- Q Acoustics q3020i
3- Whaferdale Diamond 12.1

Open to suggestions of any other model, as long as it can be bought in Western Europe/Spain.

Thanks!

Erin has just published a review of the Edifier MR3 which did very well and earned a recommendation from him. They are inexpensive and look like a good option if you want to save some $$.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

I started down the path of passives, and wound up with actives. I'll throw my suggestion for KH 120s (I have earlier KH 120A) or Genelec 8030s. Bump up or down a range based on your needs, e.g., KH 80 or KH 150/310; similar for Genelec. Kali is another regarded active speaker line.