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That's cool you have a blind screen with such little losses. In the past we used speaker grille cloth tightly stretched across the room and found considerable measurable differences seen here: As you can see there is considerably more loss than 1dB even down to 4kHz. It also matters how far...

That may be true with poorly designed speakers. But its pretty easy to identify the good from the bad by looking at the parts used, impedance measurements and on/off axis frequency response and how the speaker misbehaves at its output limits. Here is part 1 of 4 of a series of articles we...

I have to agree though I am still a Genesis fanatic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0-A12MmVs&feature=youtu.be

Check out this see-thru Velodyne subwoofer that is rumored to be made out of transparent aluminum. This is only a prototype coming to a 23rd century near you! For more information, visit: http://www.velodyne.com

Todd; Just wondering how Harman determines "best competitor". Is it based on marketshare or actual product performance for the competitors? If the latter, what criteria is used? Do product comparisons always keep competitor products at similar price classes to Harman's? In your DBTs...

Steve Wilson just sent me his double CD Grace for Drowning. Holly shiz its great. 23 minute instrumental song with incredible drumming, flutes, piano, etc. It's going to be released on Blu-ray soon!

The Harman graphs are only 2 octaves long. I personally like to measure bass from 10Hz to 200Hz to see how the subs roll off on both ends and how they blend with the front channels. This is what I measure when calibrating systems but it doesn't look as smooth as a 2 octave wide measurement of...

Todd, the top graph looks smoothed whereas the black and white graph scaled fullrange does appear to have more resolution. I guess I'd like to see the image expanded and see 10Hz to 200Hz to get a better idea of what's going on. The top graph shows the subs are likely set about 5-7dB too low...

Todd, Thanks for posting the plots. They look way too smoothed to be 1/12th octave. I've never seen any in-room measurements look like that, especially the one sub measurement. I will post some typical in-room measurements at 1/12th octave when I return to the office.

Todd, thanks for coming on here to give your perspective. I recall someone in the demo room stating that the seat to seat variation was only +-1dB which I find a bit ambitious regardless of how good any room correction or properly placed subs can yield. I do agree the front row was way too...

Holly crap man, I ignored these guys too long till my bro brought over some of their CD's. The CD "Snow" for example is a double CD concept album about a young priest's journey. It has some Christian tones just like old Genesis but instrumentally this bad is the shiz. Their drummer (formerly...

As I believe I mentioned in my first post, those are NOT the speakers they were demoing. The subs were similar but the speakers were smaller and behind a cloth to blend seamlessly with the screen.

They just don't make music like this anymore. 3 hour concert so far!

Dweezle Zappa and his band just rocked the house at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. Return to Forever with Jean Lu Ponty is up next. Whoo hoo!

They are actually working on a dual 10" similar to their 1010-SEP for EMP.

While I am a big fan and supporter of high resolution audio (192kHz/24 Bit) audio, lets not condemn 16/44. 16/44 can be extremely good if the disc is mastered correctly. 96dB dynamic range exceeds that of any loudspeaker system. I recommend reading: Dumbing Down of Audio And for the...

I got to hear a $250k JBL Synthesis Demo at CEDIA 2011. They sat us down in a relatively small sound room isolated from the show floor. There were a few rows of seats but only 2 spots open in the front which we took. I was a bit concerned sitting so close to a horn loaded system. We must...

plastic baskets on the woofers, steel laminate chokes, only 3/4" thick baffles, that's a bit disappointing. However they did a great job on grill design and the front baffle from what I see. Looks like overall a lot of engineering was put into this speaker line to produce a high quality budget...

Sadly a lot of crossover issues and design implementations like speakers operating in their break up mode won't show up in a steady state frequency response sweep. This is why more elaborate measurements at various power levels and exhaustive listening tests are required to get a full picture on...