Sunderwood writes: I have heard recordings where the engineer had everything in your face. The guitar was so overdriven that you would have thought the amp was broken. One example is the latest Journey album Freedom. I bought it on cd when it first came out. The guitar is as I described and everything is […]
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P.S Writes … Big speakers with multiple drivers and a complicated multi-ways crossover design require disproportionately higher energy for designing and voicing! 🙂 There are more drivers to be selected for a perfect match between left and right speaker. And getting all drivers sending sound waves which arrive phase-coherently at the listener’s ears is nearly […]
Neil, hi. Years ago I read at least one report that they made truly great speakers. I’ve only just recalled this in a rare moment of nostalgia. Can you shed any light please? We sniffed about a bit re this and consulted the unusual sources as the usual ones aren’t really that good on […]
PM writes … I use the equilateral triangle method for a starting point only and what I wind up with is almost never that. It’s just a starting point. GL writes … Generally a good starting point is an equalactial triangle (speakers equal distance to the distance from a speaker to the listener) if you […]
Christian Diestl writes … A company based in Bexhill on Sea, in Sussex, England that took over the manufacture of Lumley branded loudspeakers after the demise of Reference International. LL was formed in 1998 by John Jeffries but sales were slow so he decided to concentrate on his other 2 businesses, namely a high end […]
Hi all, holidays are very “dangerous” from an audiophile point of view, because there is time to think more about your system and subsequent changes. So, in these holidays I started to think a way to make some evolution in my system, starting from speakers but not only, even if I’m satisfied for the […]
Sonus faber has announced Arena, the Italian loudspeaker specialist’s flagship custom installation collection, which will make its world debut at CEDIA 2022. Arena combines the heritage brand’s latest ‘Ci-Fi’ (Custom Install Fidelity) technology, combined with the refinement associated with Sonus faber’s artisans. The handmade Arena range combines the company’s signature natural sound with the dynamics […]
So I bought these on a local NZ auction site for $50NZD. Thought I’d give them a punt. I havent historically been a fan of Monitor Audio as I didnt really like the sound of a pair my dad once had. The cabinets had a few dings so I sanded them back and re-oiled them. […]
There’s plenty of different models of loudspeakers on the market. How do some become recognized as audiophile quality while others do not?
