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In Reply to: RE: If by bass control you mean damping... posted by Monte Verdi on October 13, 2009 at 17:45:19
Hi MV,
You state this: "SET bass tends to be slow and undefined. Perhaps amps I have used?"
YES !!, almost all SET amps have problems doing bass with real life dynamics - and good ole fashioned "slam".
There is an answer, and its the ONLY one I am aware of.
Build an SET amp with a ultra powerful and "fast" power supply, and you will have almost ALL the life and dynamics that was recorded in the original event. I know of NO other good way to reproduce this. It is an AMPLIFIER design problem, and not a speaker problem.
One very low powered SET amp, on a A-7 moded speaker, can and should "do it all". I know how to build them. A few others have done so also. Contact me off-Forum and I can provide details.
Amps, not necessarily speakers, are the biggest audio TURKEYS of all !!
If you biamp, there are problems : you have an extra active stage (crossover) which ROBS your transparency, and unless both amps are identical, you will HEAR the time constant anomalies, or mis-timing, and differing signatures, between differing amps, on ANY real good high resolution system.
The best answer is to build a GREAT SET amp! It is actually possible to do so, now a days. How refreshing.
Jeff Medwin
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