In Reply to: RE: Maggies and high-end speakers posted by mmlrot1 on March 21, 2012 at 06:10:38:
My room is only 17X19/20 so the demands for power are not that bad and I get about as much SPL as my ears can handle and don't hit the distortion limits yet. Since I already made the investment in the power for the bass panels, I would prefer to have them do the <25hz just a tad better than they do now to continue the rising output with lower freq line. I want 20hz to be +1 or 2db above 30 hz rather than -2 or 3 db below.
Well, that was my issue with the big apogees I would have wanted if budget allowed. But they cost 3X what a Tympani +neo8 array costs (at least for a working pair in good condition) so it is outside the budget and not as easy to drive. Similarly, the rotary sub is way more expensive than anything I can afford and I don't like its installation requirements.
I am working on a pair of 10" + 8" dipole subwoofers (closed box not open baffle) using weighted drivers that should be enough to do my room below 30 hz, but if I can do without them I would.
I did want to ask you how loud you can go at about the octave centered on 1 khz before the Summit panels distort. Have you measured?
The Neo8 array was doing 126 db on female vocals with violins in my unfortunate accidental experiment (couldn't listen for a week after that short exposure) it was still fairly clean.
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- RE: Maggies and high-end speakers - Satie 06:50:22 03/21/12 (3)
- RE: Maggies and high-end speakers - mmlrot1 07:38:05 03/21/12 (1)
- RE: Maggies and high-end speakers - Satie 08:35:32 03/21/12 (0)
- RE: Maggies and high-end speakers - josh358 07:09:00 03/21/12 (0)