RE: Low volume speaker recommendations?

Posted by Spkr_Bldr (M) on August 17, 2012 at 13:26:26

In Reply to: RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? posted by Hornlover on August 17, 2012 at 08:33:21:

Hornlover is right that it's more an effect of the human ear than it is an effect from the loudspeaker. So to an extent there's nothing you can do about it.

That said, I have personally found that woofers built to tighter tolerances and with more compliant suspensions can retain that full sound better at low volumes. An example was a speaker I built with the AudioTech C-Quenze woofer vs one with the ScanSpeak Illuminator. Both are top quality woofers, but the AudioTech is hand made and has a tighter gap than the Scan ... the AT also has more compliant suspension. Other than the woofer and of course crossover network, the two speakers were idential. The difference wasn't huge, but the AT based speaker did sound fuller at low volumes.

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Topic - Low volume speaker recommendations? - robertd 17:47:32 08/16/12 (25)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Rvl 07:04:45 08/28/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - LA mitchell 02:33:31 08/25/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Grinnell 06:07:16 08/23/12 (1)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - sonha100 19:17:11 08/23/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Jsawyer09 20:16:18 08/21/12 (0)

ESL57 & Braun L300 - Bill Way 14:33:16 08/20/12 (1)

RE: ESL57 & Braun L300 - robertd 19:45:48 08/20/12 (0)

Acoustat 1+1 or Audiostatic - morricab 07:46:48 08/20/12 (0)

Thanks for all the responses - robertd 07:29:13 08/18/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - lesleymorley@yahoo.com 05:46:32 08/18/12 (0)

To bad you can't get a pair of these. - Mr Steed 14:43:49 08/17/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Hornlover 08:33:21 08/17/12 (3)

Perfect low volume - Sumflow 17:57:32 08/17/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - Spkr_Bldr 13:26:26 08/17/12 (0)

What are the relative curves? - DrChaos 10:43:02 08/17/12 (0)

Loudness compensation required - BigguyinATL 06:56:23 08/17/12 (0)

add a 10 band equalizer (nt) - Norman Bates 03:54:02 08/17/12 (0)

Any PHY driver speaker (nt) - plugmein 03:24:58 08/17/12 (0)

Tannoy - JeffH 22:05:21 08/16/12 (4)

RE: Tannoy - Mortsnets 22:17:24 08/16/12 (3)

For one - JeffH 23:15:59 08/18/12 (2)

RE: For one - Jack D II 13:09:30 08/19/12 (1)

RE: For one - rebbi 08:40:55 08/20/12 (0)

RE: Low volume speaker recommendations? - John Elison 21:41:26 08/16/12 (0)

Reynaud - Mortsnets 21:06:39 08/16/12 (0)

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