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I am not sure about the price on the U-boats or mineral fiber. I am sure you can pop Auralex an email to inquire. You can use fiberglass but this stuff is likely easier to work with and more effective for its purpose.

refresh your browser, I don't see it ;) J/k. I fixed it. Thanks.

I spoke in great length with Dr. Toole and some of Harman's top driver design engineers about this topic. They all have stated driver break in is measurable but from all of their controlled DBT testing it was inaudible. Woofer suspensions do loosen up, as we stated in our article on this...

Of course this is coming from a company that believes speaker cables need 50hrs to "burn in". :rolleyes: http://www.gr-research.com/components/wire.shtm Personally I think if only manufacturers would lube up their drivers with kosher chicken fat prior to shipping them, there would be no...

Not really. I used to own these speakers. Back in the day they were quite good but the woofers simply cannot handle alot of bass without bottoming out. I would use these speakers in another room for stereo rather than yanking the woofers out to build a sub. You can buy sub drivers for $50 or...

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Not Tom, Mark Sanfilipo and its still on his plate though not a priority right now. We have another guy working on articles about driver mechanics/materials that should prove interesting as well. Stay tuned...

New Paradigm Secret Speakers Why am I not surprised to see a thread like this once a year? :rolleyes:

Agreed. Not sure how they can make such claims. Perhaps they should qualify it with "compared to mainstream systems".

Yes in small listening spaces, multiple subs and bass management are essential if you desire even bass response across the whole listening area. If you have active equalization, you can set the mains to large if they are capable and eq the whole system for smooth bass response but its...

That's the problem. Most people set the xover of the sub too low and then boost the heck out of it to get a better blend in the transition region. You then have too much bass below the xover point and it sounds boomy or slow. In the case where the speakers play down to 60Hz, I would set the...

Yea I think so. The first time I was approached by a White Van I was with a girl friend of mine. They guy tried to push his crap on her and I politely told him we weren't interested unless he sold them for $50/pair. He then got aggressive with me and we almost got into a fight until he...

Yes these guys are well networked and highly organized. http://www.scamshield.com/Feature.asp?id=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speakers They almost always pull up in a white van They all sell the same story. I've been approached by 4 in the last 2 years and their...

This weekend I was in Ft. Lauderdale with my brothers and was stopped by a White Van at a gas station with 2 guys selling speakers. For fun my brothers and I went up to see what they were offering. Unfortunately I didn't have a digital camera with me. I really wanted to take some pics...

Bass management is essential for many reasons: 1. Almost no speakers can be considered full range - able to play high SPL levels down to 20Hz 2. In order to achieve the best bass response for the entire listening area, properly placed subwoofers need to be use. Full Range speaker placement...

As much as I love the sound quality of my Concert DTS DVD's all of which are superior to any of the DD ones I have owned, I think DTS is fading away. Dolby has all of DTS's diversity now and more, but with a huge marketing force, nearly infinite engineering resources and standardization on all...

That's the best environment for measurements but the worst environment for listening. You should NOT have a floorstanding speaker in such a small room. Your M80s are too close together and I bet that beer bottle on the floor is really messing things up, especially since its empty :)

Than these are the speakers you should get. Now that is comedy :D

DD is mandated on DVD, DTS is optional. DD has much more marketshare. IMO DTS is becoming a relic now that Dolby unveiled TrueHD and is a mandatory format in Blu-Ray and HD DVD. They also have more engineering power than DTS.

That would be true if the bitrate was high enough for DD, which IMO it isn't. This is one of the reasons most DD soundtracks sound very compressed. If bitrate wasn't important (which it is) then Dolby wouldn't be introducing new formats with much higher bitrates in their lossy scheme. You can...