Recent content by Head_Unit

Well...$250...I dunno. But I totally welcome any trend of room correction finally coming into 2-channel products. Now if only we can make highpass filters ubiquitous as well...

Take it from this loudspeaker engineer, often sucked into the marketing whore department, MANY brands lie about sensitivity. And speaker specs in general are useless twaddle, generally smoothed or "adjusted" or just made up by the Marketing department. There is a thing called "Hofmann's Iron...

Could you provide a visual diagram of that please? o_O For me - Audio Science Reviews measurements didn't look that awful in the first place. Yeah the response is hardly flat, and there's impedance resonance, join the club of 6,846,223 other speaker designs. Not impressive but I've seen far...

This is a kind of bad taste in my mouth about Dirac-it seems technically well done, but then I read about paying extra to unlock licenses and all these flavors...is there a Dirac feature chart somewhere? Do all versions handle 2 subwoofers?

Sirius and XM started off with different but very very heavy compression schemes, and different but heavy processing to try and "fix" that. Once upon a time when they had 3 stations running I was on a BMW test drive for Sirius. It was SO cool listening to the same station the entire way! And it...

The picture for this one trips me out because it looks like the guy from Lord Of The Rings. What's this about anyway? [insert rant emoji against Netflix's too-short and then further, cut off shorter descriptions] Seems like I might enjoy it.

OK...but is there any highpass filtering inside? Or are the mains just left struggling to put out the low bass?

Really? I wasn't aware of that. I haven't noticed that, though when running etc I generally run them in the "transparency" mode. Hmmm, the headphones sometimes switch mode themselves, maybe they switch into transparency without using knowing? A puzzlement. - I think you are correct, Denon needs...

Wait, that means the woofer and mid have a sensitivity of like 65 dB?!? That makes no sense. - What horn and driver is this? (Manufacturer/model number?) - Looks like a power response falloff: is it a constant directivity horn? Which then should show a dropoff like that. - But I can't imagine...

- It shouldn't be necessary to turn the sub up 12 dB. I'd rerun that, and if the same result comes, post for help in Forums and/or contact Onkyo or Dirac. Try running a sweep tone, if the low bass is way louder than the mid-bass then yeah 0 is too loud. - No there's not so much super low...

All we had was an older technology, called "look out the window" :laugh:

That's such a cute phrase! Where it will be fed only pure sine wave wall voltage with no RF noise, and only "good" music will be played through it at moderate levels for all eternity. :laugh:

I like the concept of the R3, i.e. a separate woofer. The Achilles' Hell of KEF Uni-Q is modulation of the tweeter response due to the moving horn (i.e. the woofer cone) in front of it. How tremendous a problem that is I've never seen measured, but like Thiel once upon a time, cutting the low...

Wait, improvement in the decay time by EQ, check. How can the EQ improve the decay rate? I feel like I missed that part. I'd think the decay rate would be fixed by the physical parameters of the speaker and the room. I have hazy vision in my head that a resonance can be deconvolved but that...

...who were related to the ones who said, after serious scientific modeling, that bumblebees cannot fly...