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In Reply to: RE: Sonus Faber Venere S Floorstanding Speakers posted by samurai7595 on October 02, 2016 at 06:58:34
What are your "wants" in tonal quality?I know you want bass but the sad truth is you ain't gonna get it with most of today's offerings. at best you'll get 40hz but you're not getting "BASS". You are going to need that sub unless you go the old school designs of "DUDE, that's a big-bad-woofer".
Just a generalize finding. If you want natural tones paper coned mids / woofers have been the gold standard for that quality. Exotic materials have tried but never really grasped it. They are just easier to deal with in production.
If you want bass then the bigger the cone the more bass ya gonna git. Not the bigger the box the more bass you're going to get.
The bigger the box doesn't equal bigger sound quality.
If you do go with a sub, and I think you will end up doing that, then just keep this in mind. If a speaker does go down to low then you start running into blending problems. Find a good smallish tower or really GOOD monitor that has at least a 7" cone. Like the Zaph Audio SR-71s. Opps did I mention those again?
If you are willing to drop around three or four grand on a speaker consider the Revelator tower kit at Madisound and have a speaker cabinet custom built for you. Again - you're not finding much better in the class.
Edits: 10/02/16Follow Ups:
I've been enjoying the SR71 you put me on to a year ago.
Is the Revelator a big step up? 2-way version?
Thanks.
Lord knows I've done a LOT of reading on that very topic. And the final answer - no. From those that actually HAVE both they say little to difference between them. The only difference if any was the tower version of the Revelator had a "TAD" stronger bass. But that was it!
So you built the SR-71s. I'm amazed at how good these speakers are. I had to get used to using a subwoofer. But once I did get used to that setup I can never see myself ever going back.
A year of so ago I pulled out a set of A-25s, once my favorite all time speaker. Set them up and after about 5 minutes I thought - "what was it I did like about these". Put the SR71s back in and never looked back.
Nice pic- airtime.
The low note on the piano is 27.5 Hz but go ahead and bang away on it and measure how much softer it is than the same amount of pressure on A-440 in the middle or 4186Hz on top.
As a consequence, speakers "flat" to approx. 40Hz and down 6 dB (F6) in the mid-20s will accurately reproduce bass music whether it be Haydn, Harry James or Hoodoo Zombies.
You want to blow candles out you can use a sub-woofer that is impossible to musically integrate with quality speakers or go for something like the Diavelets (a relative has a pair) that produce chest-thumping bass and room clearing mids and highs or some multi-woofer coffin with Xmax of 8" and Bungee Chord Bass.
Thank you. I didn't want you to get the wrong impression because that was my intended goal.
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