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In Reply to: RE: JUmped off the deep end- water's fantastic posted by HiOnFi on December 13, 2014 at 06:55:56
That is a really smart use of the maggie with boundary reinforcement. You can get the same effect if your sidewalls are in sufficient proximity to the listening position or speakers. If you want to extend bass dynamics further and possibly win more extension try stuffing the gap between the frame and the floor with something to stop the dipole cancellation at that end of the speaker.The ribbon tweeter on the 3.5 is likely far better than the Diva boxes in its range of 2.5-3 khz and up. You can place the tweeter in a narrow frame and put it in front of the speaker and crossover it to the speaker with a line level XO, probably best to do it at 3.5 khz with a line level LR2 passive network. You just need to have a preamp with greater than 5V output. And an additional low power amp stable into 3 ohms. 20 watts class A should be plenty and give you the cleanest treble you have heard.
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I thought of removing the ribbons but $$$$ to explore
I want to get a Parasound P5 pre, which has bass management controls
and yes the ribbons would no doubt improve on the Divas, but they ain't bad
Swan speakers largely go unnoticed here in the States. Their complete product line is pretty impressive. Because of reviews I bought a set of Swan 2.1 SE Customs (2 way monitors) for my two channel theater system. For the $$ ($1050 including Swan stands made for these monitors) they really sound fine. For shits and giggles I move them into my main room from time to time and with a REL Storm II that combo is impressive, in a 2 way monitor kind of way. It's always fun switching out speakers .....
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The best real monitor I had in this room was Reference 3A De Capos + 2 Sunfire subs. The DeCapos are giant killers
I a not running the bass on the Divas, so a quasi-monitor with built in stand
I really liked the Grand Veena for the crossoverless midrange and well matched bass. There is such a rightness to it, particularly on vinyl playback.
I am pretty much done with my own experiment with crossoverless midrange and sharp XOs on the bass (4th@ 200hz+time shift) and ribbon (5th @11khz). 1 and 1/2 decades.
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