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    Philharmonic Audio BMR Philharmonitor Bookshelf Speaker Review

    Hi I've had apretty rough time of it and have had to give up the speaker biz. I'm still hospitalized, but hope to return home fairly shortly (although I shortly may have to spend some time in a recovery facility, ). The timing could't have been worse, since I had just seen all of my...
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    Philharmonic Audio BMR Philharmonitor Bookshelf Speaker Review

    My bad The graph on my site is of the earlier version with the offset tweeter and mid. We switched to in-line drivers when we ordered the prefab cabinets because we didn't want to risk having the factory mess up some pairs with the same offset--not mirror imaged. The even spacing of the...
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    B-M-WOW! A tribute to the BMR, and my journey to them..

    Never mind I misread a post. No worries.
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    B-M-WOW! A tribute to the BMR, and my journey to them..

    Snakeeyes Could you please write me at info@philharmonicaudio.com? Thanks
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    Looking at Tekton Double impacts SE. Anybody have any experience with them?

    I have a pair of 3's in midnight blue dye on Curly Maple, along with BMR's in the same finish, arriving from Jim fairly shortly. No--they're not yours. But I will send you pics. I'm not sure whether that will make the wait more or less painful.
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    Salk, Philharmonic, Ascend.... what else?

    Curly maple is a standard veneer, and Jim doesn't charge for dyes. Maple also does reasonably well with the simpler one-stage finish that saves $300 and speeds up the build time. However, "burst" is a problem. All Phil 3 cabinets now come with beveled front edges, whether on the "old" style...
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    Salk, Philharmonic, Ascend.... what else?

    When I designed the MTM, the BMR wasn't on the horizon. I went with the Fountek for the MTM because a RAAL wouldn't go low enough to mate well with the Seas woofers. Now that I have the BMR and have experimented with it as a center, I think it's superior to the MTM in horizontal dispersion and...
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    Salk, Philharmonic, Ascend.... what else?

    The curved cherry in Swerd's pic is an older model that has the same front dimensions as the current piano black cabinets. The only cherry cabinets currently available are shorter and wider, and I don't think the proportions are as pleasing as the taller and thinner cabinet. In any event, I...
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    Salk, Philharmonic, Ascend.... what else?

    There are too many variables to give a simple pat answer. I'm running a 200 wpc ATI amp which is a brute and probably puts out more than that if called upon. I doubt very much that you would need as much power as you have on tap unless you're planning on creating a decibel nightmare in your...
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    speaker impedance game

    Well, it's a matter of how often you need it and how much it costs to insure against a rare event. But I agree that the current specs are a mess. People are always asking whether this or that AVR has enough power for the BMR's and AA's, and sometimes I can't answer because the published specs...
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    speaker impedance game

    No argument there. But your original post seemed to say the FTC had changed its protocol, which isn't the case. The industry switched to continuous power ratings rather than peak specs in 1974 because that's when the FTC Rule took effect. Continuous power into 8 ohms is still the required...
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    speaker impedance game

    I'm not sure which changes in the FTC testing protocol you're referencing. We did make some peripheral changes in the pre-conditioning requirement and allowed more flexibility in the choice of impedance for powered speakers, but other than that the protocol hasn't changed. The primary...
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    BMR Road Trip Kickoff

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    Tekton Double Impact?

    It's apples and kiwis time. This isn't a quasi-anechoic measurement. It's a room measurement with a wider sampling window and all kinds of room effects. You have to smooth the trend. The plot is about as good as a speaker can get with that kind of measurement. The only real departure from...
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    1993 KLH 81 Premier Tweeter Death

    Right, although for the record I very much doubt that the crossover point is 1300 Hz. That's just a garden variety 1" dome tweeter, and judging from the appearance and probably cost, I doubt that it would be happy much below 2400 Hz.
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    BMR Road Trip Kickoff

    All of this will depend on whether the interested party decides to buy the Road Show BMR's or a new shiny pair. He's thinking it over.
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    BMR Road Trip Kickoff

    I kind of doubt it. But maybe I can arrange to send the original Road Show Bimmers, uh BMR's, to you. Someone is interested in them, but if that doesn't work out perhaps I can talk them into one more trip.
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    BMR Road Trip Kickoff

    The BMR Road Show came to an end today with the return of the somewhat battered but unbowed demo speakers. They made stops in over 15 cities across the country. I've posted a BMR Roadshow page on my site reproducing all of the reviews. And I've also updated the main BMR page to show the new...
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    tweeter installation question

    By convention, the large tab will be the positive, and the narrow one the negative.
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    Revel Performa3 M105 (serious)

    Looks to me like If I had to guess, I would say the woofer is 3rd order electrical, with one NP electrolytic cap as part of the 3rd order, plus an impedance compensation circuit with a resistor and an electrolytic cap. And the tweeter is a 3rd order electrical with a resistor. What's...
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