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In Reply to: RE: Another First Reflection Trap (FRT) Adventure : Quasi-Ambiophonics posted by STC on March 07, 2017 at 16:49:33
Thanks, I was reading up on inexpensive speakers. It looks like there are some decent ones though hard to know what would work. But man, once you add all those DAC racks and amplification it wouldn't be cheap! Also, I'm not sure how I'd feed the DAW with my usual source, JRiver -- haven't looked into it but I wonder whether you'd need to run two machines.
OTOH, no reason I can't do what you did and try a simpler setup. I have some Monsoon computer speakers and I could use the motherboard audio to experiment, with the impulse response in JRiver . . .
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Josh,You need not spend a fortune on the small speakers. Mine are a mix of Yamaha, Panasonics and Sony. Speakers the size of a CD (see picture). The role of the convolution speakers is to act as sound bouncing off the wall and therefore the quality, in a small room, doesnt matter. Moreover, the I use JRiver's PEQ to cut all frequencies below 200Hz and above 4500Hz.
Basically, you only need one amplifier. I was driving 4 speakers with one amplifier. Now, I am driving all 22 speakers with just 3 amplifiers. You can drive all speakers with one 100Watt Amp or better still get a Behringer or Crown to drive all the speakers as the output volume is very low.
I am using the http://www.gearbest.com/speakers/pp_39924.html amp to drive the other 8 speakers. You would probably need less than 10 Watt for all the speakers. You can see the diagram in my profile page. My total budget for all the speakers and amplifiers is below US$200 as the HT speakers were bought used.
ST
Edits: 03/07/17
Wow, at that price, you can't afford not too!
I'm definitely going to try this once I get my new HTPC up -- I have the box built, but the monitor I was planning to get is backordered so right now I'm scrambling for a substitute.
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