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What 5dB peak at 4.5kHz? There is a gradual rise in HF around 5kHz peaking 5dB at 14kHz. Padding the tweeter down a couple of dB would probably be the most one would want to do to tame the HF energy a bit. I can understand why AJ chose to voice the tower a bit hot since its so short and the...

You don't want totally flat frequency response headphones. They would be quite painful to listen to. Also, it's very difficult to properly measure how a headphone couples with a human ear. Here are the measurements on the Sennheiser HD600s which I consider to be a true reference pair of...

What is that saying? "People that don't know audio/beer know b*se / b*dweiser" :)

These are V2 of the series so I don't think they have any changes planned ATM. I certainly hope not otherwise it would obsolete my review ;)

I think you made a good upgrade to the Pioneers but they do have limits too. Try bass managing them with a powered sub and your receivers bass management to see if that cleans things up a bit. The only issue is your older Yammie Xover is a fixed 90Hz setting. You can chose a sub with speaker...

Agreed but at $129/ea, I just couldn't give lower scores in any category. It didn't feel right ;)

thanks for the compliment, though I didn't receive a PM from you?

You're obviously new to the site and not aware of the following: Powered Subwoofer Testing: Outline and Procedures Overview — Reviews and News from Audioholics Audioholics Subwoofer Room Size Rating Protocol — Reviews and News from Audioholics Audioholics Subwoofer Measurement Data...

Congratulations to dracullus, winner of the SB-1000 Review contest for his excellent review of the SB-1000. A big thank you to all of the reviewers that took part in this contest to help make it a success.

Congratulations to pcweber111, winner of the PB-1000 Review contest for his excellent review of the PB-1000. A big thank you to all of the reviewers that took part in this contest to help make it a success.

Tell me about it. It's becoming a full time job trying to cover all their new stuff. I've got some XPR-1's in for review right now!

My god time flies. That review is over 11 years old! It was a fun shootout.

The scale of that measurement is too wide, you can't really see what is going on. Here is a multi driver RBH speaker with a very flat impedance and pretty begin phase response. This speaker has 9 drivers so its quite a feat for such a complex design. Impedance Full Screen Image — Reviews...

sounds like you and Jim are on the right path to building a better Fried speaker than Fried. You're applying real science instead of witchcraft or maybe a better mix of science and witchcraft since you need both when it comes to loudspeaker design.

Bud was a big proponent of time-coherent speakers and mocked any designs that used higher order filter response networks. I recall him writing a letter to Stereophile to admit that people prefer the sound of shallow slope time coherent speakers over high order filter network alternatives...

Oh Boy Bud Fried was quite the myth perpetuator. I recall on a phone call with him, he once told me metal drivers are junk and any speaker that doesn't use a first order series crossover and a transmission line enclosure is also junk. He always claimed his speakers measured like a resistor but...

B/C the dominant metric in speaker cables is resistance. All of the cables we measure we do at DC and AC (Inductance and Capacitance vs frequency) including AC resistance.

That Lexicon processor is a very good product despite it lacking some of the latest features. You may want to wait for a more comparable processor with top notch dacs like the new XMC-1 from Emotiva or the new Marantz unit. If you're not using HDMI video switching in the processor, you could...

One thing you will always find with Audioholics is I don't consider any of us journalists. Journalists typically have too big of an ego to allow their work to be peer reviewed and corrected/edited when needed. On the other hand, I an much of my staff are degreed engineers. It's in our nature...

I made some minor tweaks today to the forum: increased edit post time from 60 min to 120 min increased edit title time fro 60 min to 120 min increased post count to 25k to be considered an "Audioholics Jedi". It was at 21k which was only 1k greater than the preceding title. increased # of...