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Aldo; I encourage you to review: Audioholics Subwoofer Measurement Protocol and our new: Audioholics Room Size Rating Protocol This is how we will be conducting most if not ALL future subwoofer reviews and we'd love to add your products to our review list. thanks.

NEVER trust Audyssey or any auto-room correction system to properly set crossover frequency for your speakers. Audyssey can't deal with a boundary gain of a speaker placed closely to a wall so it will assume the speaker is large and set a low crossover point. As for bipole vs dipole, the...

Hmm. I thought the new Emo speakers had a familiar look. I will call them and question them about this. Perhaps its a joint operation between both brands.

Has anyone successfully burned a copy of this? If so, how do you do it and how is the sound? http://www.dreamstrikes.com/music/823631-coldplay-parachutes-5-1-upmix-2008-limited-edition-2008-a.html

Dave your quite a knowledgeable and classy person. Thanks for adding this useful commentary about M&K. I was a big fan of their older products back in the day and glad to see another legitimately great high end speaker company back in the game!

Transparent Aluminum appears to becoming a scientific fact but I seriously doubt the Velodyne sub is constructed of it ;)

LOL OMG I remember those speakers. I never got to hear them but as a kid I lusted for them. Seeing how I didn't have any money back then, I had to settle for the cereal instead ;(

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.