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Last year when I hosted our $1k Floorstanding Speaker Faceoff, both myself and Clint were able to identify the speakers after only a few short listening trials. Each brand typically has a defined sonic signature that a trained listener can identify. Imagine being around speakers you build all...

This thread at AVS Forum has inspired me to co-author a new article with Paul Apollonio about Loudspeakers titled: Loudspeakers: Is Your Favorite Manufacturer Cutting Costs? In it I will be discussing the benefits of using higher quality drive units, crossovers and bracing and the importance...

Sorry guys, our forum only allows 10 options in a poll so I went with the brands most folks here are familiar with. I meant to disrespect to Ascends, Salk or others not mentioned in the polling options. As enough data is gathered, I will pick the top 3 to assign near future speaker reviews...

We'd like to get your opinion on who you feel makes the best built and best sounding loudspeakers in consumer audio. Your opinion should be based primarily on sound quality followed by build quality and durability. This choice should be based on the overall product line of a particular company...

It's important to realize that just b/c a company spends tons of $$$ on research, doesn't mean that the benefits of that research gets directly dumped back into their products, particularly their consumer audio loudspeakers.

Alternative Perspective on Noise Cancelling Headphones This is an old article but relevant giving the subject material: Marketing Influence on the Government

A while back my brother met the lead Engineer behind the Bose Clock radio. He asked him to honestly say what he thought about the product. The Bose Engineer replied "we did an amazing job on the product for a $50 budget". :rolleyes:

Great Scott!

Agreed. Most modern displays have pretty accurate color to begin with. Setting the black level correctly is the most important thing when getting a display out of the box.

Here is a plot of an in-room measurement of my system in the front row using no smoothing. My RBH subs are tuned at 18Hz and my Velodyne's are sealed. AS you can see b/c of room gain, my -3dB point is 12Hz. I can put out over 110dB at my listening position for around 15Hz but it starts...

A Note about Slopes and F3 Also watch out for subs that place a brickwall filter below its f3 point. This will negate any room gain below that frequency and can typically cause the sub to ring. I'd much rather have a sub flat to 25Hz with a gradual 12dB/Oct rolloff below that than a sub flat...

There is no good reason to make a sub flat down to 12Hz other than marketing. Making a sub flat to 20Hz at meaningful output will have plenty of room gain to play bass below those frequencies if ever called upon to do so. There is virtually no program material that goes much below 20Hz and the...

Recommended Reading This article applies now more than ever based on what I am seeing here: Audio Measurements: The Useful vs the Bogus

TLS assessment is pretty dead on. Once you stuff that many drivers into a small enclosure your efficiency goes way down, especially at low frequencies. It's interesting that nobody, including Paradigm has conducted outdoor or true 4pi measurements of this product. Until that happens, we will...

I wonder did they measure it outdoors a 1 or 2 meter groundplane vs max SPL out, or do it at 2 feet in-room like Hometheaterhifi.com does???

Star Trek II - the Wrath of Khan To this day, I can still recite the every line of the movie ;) KHAN! KHAN!

I don't have the EP500 anymore sorry.

Lot's of whining today. Here is some cheese for your wine :rolleyes: These are Video reviews. They give you an overview of the product. We have found that 3-5 minute videos are the perfect amount of time to cover a product. Making the videos any longer means people lose interest. I also...

The driver topology of the EMP E55i's seem more similar to the Polk RTiA9s. http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/rtia/index.php?s=rtia9

Also routing power cables orthogonal to line level cables if you can't keep them spaced apart will eliminate any ill effects. Honestly I've never had a problem routing power and line level cables in close proximity if quality double shielded interconnects such as the 1694A COAX you guys sell is...