Do you consider yourself an audiophile?
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
What were the external crossovers for and why does this make them redundant?
moody
Member of The Underground.
well, I use two sets of speakers, a set of floorstanders and a smaller set on stands.
I had the crossovers (3 way) so that mids and tops went to the smaller speakers and the lows to the floorstanders.
sounded pretty decent.
now I have in effect two amps and have used these to bi amp both sets of speakers thus rendering the need for the crossovers.
sounds a lot better now.
moody
Member of The Underground.
yeah, don't have it up too loud but sometimes i do give a blast and there is a fair bit of low freq resonance bouncing about.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I don't see how this removes the need for crossovers, if they were necessary before.
Where in the system do the crossover filters now happen?
BigTom
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danski
"vibey"
That is my all time favourite ‘audiophile’ image
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
My favourite audiophile product. Someone somewhere is seriously having a laughThat is my all time favourite ‘audiophile’ image
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I have long had enough speakers but not the amp for surround sound. So I bought a new home theatre amplifier and sub and it came with a little microphone that you plug in the front and set up on a wobbly cardboard stand. The speakers all go BUHwoop from low to high one at a time and then you move the mic around and it all repeats. Once you've done it about 10 times it crunches the numbers and EQs/phase adjusts all the channels to sound best where you sit. Felt like the most audiophile woo thing I've ever done but it actually made a huge difference. Basically corrected all (ok maybe not all) the flaws of my set of random speakers. The robots are coming for your job Bees
moody
Member of The Underground.
I was using external crossover units, now I am using the speaker own internal crossovers.
ska invita
back on the other side
This is a great video, especially the Why Audiophiles Hate Digital section at 10.27
teuchter
je suis teuchter
You said the point of the external crossovers was to filter the signals that went to each of your speaker pairs. I don't see how bi-amping would change this, unless you were somehow filtering the signal prior to the amps. It sounds like you are now sending the same signal to each pair of speakers. If you have noticed an improvement in sound quality, it would seem to me that it's more plausible that this results from removing the external crossovers, than that it results from "bi-amping".
But maybe I have misunderstood what the before and after setups are. It would need a diagram really.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Not woo at all, and is the foundation of modern speaker systems. There’s a huge amount of EQ/fiter/phase processing going on with most of the top end PA systems nowadays. If you want to see the current technological peak, have a read about the system installed in the Vegas Sphere…
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Many product designers and manufacturers in the audio industry the world over have been making huge leaps forward in hardware, software, and interoperability that they have been largely unable to show off thanks to a disruption to live events. Following the return of trade shows in 2022, the lid...
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wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
hardcore speaker porn thread?Not woo at all, and is the foundation of modern speaker systems. There’s a huge amount of EQ/fiter/phase processing going on with most of the top end PA systems nowadays. If you want to see the current technological peak, have a read about the system installed in the Vegas Sphere…
R&D Stories: Design and Development of the Holoplot X1 Matrix Array
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When a robot can hang boxes from a venues ceiling, I’ll worry
/me drooling
nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
I'll bet that goes up to 11
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I've been looking for some new speakers recently. I bought my last part of studio monitors about 25yrs ago.
What has struck me, not so much with the studio side, but with the home hifi market are what a massive industry it is. There appear to be zillions of manufacturers now.
Given that the actual sound quality of what most people listen to now has degraded it appears ironic that there's a parallel high end area promising a speaker for every conceivable purpose & price.
ELAC and Acoustic Energy seem to come up alot as good ones. You have to get a "DAC" now?
What has struck me, not so much with the studio side, but with the home hifi market are what a massive industry it is. There appear to be zillions of manufacturers now.
Given that the actual sound quality of what most people listen to now has degraded it appears ironic that there's a parallel high end area promising a speaker for every conceivable purpose & price.
ELAC and Acoustic Energy seem to come up alot as good ones. You have to get a "DAC" now?
moody
Member of The Underground.
so I bought a new laptop just for music and got a bandcamp account.
impressed by the amount of tunes and how the site is laid out, bought a few tunes and downloaded flacs.
thought they were supposed to be lossless?
a few sound, well not great, almost like listening to tracks on youtube.
maybe it's the recordings or maybe i should download wavs from now on?
impressed by the amount of tunes and how the site is laid out, bought a few tunes and downloaded flacs.
thought they were supposed to be lossless?
a few sound, well not great, almost like listening to tracks on youtube.
maybe it's the recordings or maybe i should download wavs from now on?
danski
"vibey"
How are you connecting the laptop to the amp?
moody
Member of The Underground.
from laptop headphone out via an cambridge audio aux cable in to a spare channel of my amp.
is there another way?
pesh
Well-Known Member
The cable will make fuck all difference, using an external USB sound card could make a difference ranging from maybe a little bit better to the difference between night and day depending on how good a sound card you get and how shit the one in your laptop is…
I’d get one from Amazon and see what you think, if you don’t see a difference send it back.
I’d get one from Amazon and see what you think, if you don’t see a difference send it back.
moody
Member of The Underground.
I'll be getting traktor soon to use with my 1210s, that has an external soundcard, will it make a difference in sound, there are different versions and price points?
pesh
Well-Known Member
No idea what the Traktor controller sound cards are like to be honest, but I imagine it will be a step up from the onboard audio on your laptop
