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  1. gene

    Zappa and Return to Forever live at Ruth Eckerd Hall

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

    Zappa and Return to Forever live at Ruth Eckerd Hall

    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!
  3. gene

    RBH Sound S-10 & S-12 Subwoofers Preview

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

    JBL Synthesis CEDIA 2011 Demo Evaluation

    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...
  5. gene

    JBL Synthesis CEDIA 2011 Demo Evaluation

    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...
  6. gene

    new Paradigm Monitor 7 Series speakers

    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...
  7. gene

    Why the Axiom bashing??

    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...
  8. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    Westcott, I appreciate your contribution to this site and apologize if my responses have come off abrasive to you. The wonderful world of the internet can be quite dispassionate and impersonal at times. Subwoofers measured in a room will typically give you far more output than the +6dB...
  9. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    We are measuring the sub outdoor via 2 meter groundplane first to get the most accurate response. We are then adding +6dB to those measurements to simulate the output one could expect if the sub was corner loaded in room and sitting 4 meters from the sub. This is actually how Klipsch comes up...
  10. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    I'm sorry but your dead wrong about this. An In-Room measurement can NEVER be more conservative than an outdoor groundplane measurement which takes the entire room out of the equation. It's impossible to get a flat frequency response at bass frequencies in anything but an infinitely large room...
  11. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    Unfortunately Tom's measurements are all done in-room so its difficult to impossible to correlate them with outdoor groundplane. We have Klipsch's latest sub offering in for testing. We don't test discontinued product. We know how Klipsch rates max output of their subs so it will be...
  12. gene

    "The Amazing Spider-Man" Trailer...

    How do you reboot a franchise that was already recently rebooted? For once can't they chose a Spiderman with at least some masculine qualities? This movie will flop. Now bring on Batman!
  13. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    At what distance was that sub measured? Are those RMS or peak #s? What brand of sub is it? I may request a review sample if its a current model and have it shipped to Josh for testing.
  14. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    Dennis; Do you have LMS, Sample Champion or TrueRTA at your disposal? If so, perhaps you can retake your measurements. I too have never seen a loudspeaker measurement look like this unless lots of smoothing was applied. I experimented with the Audio Precision MLS system and it produced...
  15. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    Jim builds his stuff to order and his cabinet work takes quite a lot of time. Hence why he's got some of the nicest cabinets in the industry. I'd be happy to review something like this from him in the near future however.
  16. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    Cool build an extra one for me while your at it :D
  17. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    My bad. I needed to take a second glance to see the graph starts at 50dB so you are correct. The graph is smoothed but it at least shows Jim voiced the speaker to be neutral. The reason he likely stopped the low end at 200Hz is b/c the measurement was taken in-room. Below 200Hz the room...
  18. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    Most legitimate loudspeaker companies don't rate sensitivity that way but even still 84-87 dB is a very inefficient speaker so I don't expect these would be appropriate in anything but a small room. This is what I found when Jim sent me the 1801TL floorstanders that bottomed out at 75dB only...
  19. gene

    Salk SoundScape M7

    Looks like a cool speaker but I wish they published an actual useful frequency response. :rolleyes: 84dB sensitivity is rather low for such a large speaker. I suspect this baby is a bit limited in dynamic output.
  20. gene

    How Audioholics Determines Bass Output Ratings in Subwoofers

    Great Scott!
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