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In Reply to: You might want to look into high-efficiency speakers. posted by Bry on October 23, 2016 at 17:55:55:
I'm getting that kind of experience you describe from my Sonist Concerto 4s, which are rated at 97 db efficient.
See the article at the link about the effect of driver size and efficiency on the listening experience.
Happy listening,
Jim
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- RE: Maybe I'm not an audiophile - fantja 06:13:59 10/26/16 (0)
- Immersive - Duke 10:29:12 10/25/16 (41)
- About that 10 ms delay - M3 lover 10:27:55 10/27/16 (8)
- Excellent point - Duke 11:13:05 10/27/16 (7)
- It looks like your design will add reflections earlier than 10ms too - Dave_K 05:37:46 10/29/16 (1)
- A little bit, but the later reflections are many times stronger - Duke 11:31:40 10/29/16 (0)
- RE: Excellent point - Inmate51 22:47:49 10/28/16 (4)
- Importance of reflected sound delay - M3 lover 08:55:08 10/30/16 (0)
- RE: Excellent point - Duke 11:06:58 10/29/16 (2)
- Psycho - Inmate51 08:29:36 10/30/16 (1)
- Adjustability - Duke 11:43:24 10/30/16 (0)
- Multichannel has the best potential to realize "envelopment" - Feanor 09:06:53 10/26/16 (2)
- RE: Multichannel has the best potential to realize "envelopment" - BigguyinATL 14:05:37 10/28/16 (0)
- Two-streams done well comes pretty close - Duke 11:06:16 10/26/16 (0)
- What you're describing is very different from a concert hall - Dave_K 04:45:48 10/26/16 (1)
- But it's still a closer approximation - Duke 10:58:42 10/26/16 (0)
- RE: Immersive - cawson@onetel.com 03:49:52 10/26/16 (5)
- Excellent points - I'll try to address them... - Duke 09:59:36 10/26/16 (2)
- RE: Excellent points - I'll try to address them... - cawson@onetel.com 14:59:41 10/26/16 (1)
- RE: Excellent points - I'll try to address them... - Duke 16:51:31 10/26/16 (0)
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- BW 800 - DanWilson 02:45:41 11/25/16 (2)
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- RE: Thanks - Brian Walsh 19:05:58 10/25/16 (3)
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- RE: Thanks for the kind offer - Brian Walsh 09:51:21 10/26/16 (1)
- RE: Thanks for the kind offer - G Squared 14:46:15 10/26/16 (0)
- RE: "Two Streams Paradigm" speakers? - genungo 12:10:11 10/25/16 (11)
- RE: "Two Streams Paradigm" speakers? - Duke 14:34:43 10/25/16 (9)
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- RE: Not yet...? - genungo 02:02:42 10/27/16 (4)
- RE: Not yet...? - Duke 09:05:53 10/27/16 (3)
- RE: Not yet...? - genungo 09:31:28 10/27/16 (2)
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- My thoughts exactly - jec01 18:56:45 10/23/16 (0)