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Unity vs Uno

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This is slightly off topic, but this week I went to listen to some Avant Garde Unos to compare to my Unitys...every so often it's useful to callibrate to an external reference to see if you're on the right track. I am definitely on the right track. I know there is a tendency to be biased towards something your own project, but it wasn't even close. One caveat--I am doing DSP equalization on my system, which does make a dramatic difference to just about any system. However, the Unity is an ideal system for doing DSP since it is truly a point source. On the Unity, when you equalize the on-axis response, you also equalize the off-axis response. With the Avant Garde the drivers are separated by a large amount physically and with the widely varying power response, I don't think DSP would help that much. You might be able to get one point in spafce sounding absolutely glorious, but you'd have to lock your head in a vice to appreciate it and your friends would be sol.

Somebody else mentioned the problems of mating a monopole bass to horn mids and treble and I heartily agree. I was reminded of my first Unity setup with monopole bass. Now it's dipole and there's no going back--until I have the room to try out my plane-wave/active-echo-cancellation bass idea.

John

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