With multiple small drivers you can do more tricks too.
Do you think JRiver can do this?
start using 1 woofer at low volumes, and when the linear limits of that woofer are almost reached, start adding signal to a second one and so forth.
Do you think JRiver can do this?
start using 1 woofer at low volumes, and when the linear limits of that woofer are almost reached, start adding signal to a second one and so forth.
That varies...
Favorite band of all time: Led Zeppelin
Other honorable mentions;
The Doors
Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd
Ayreon
Steve Vai
Van Halen
Whitesnake
Queensryche
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Dio (solo and other stuff)
And lots and lots more, in other words a lot of (classic) Rock
Other genre's (like pop);
Yes
Genesis
David bowie
Peter Gabriel solo
Robert Palmer
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
10CC
Godley & Cream
The Police
Fleetwood Mac
etc.
And lots more, very apparent I grew up in the 80's with love for 60's and 70's music 😉
Soundtracks like;
John Barry
Hans Zimmer
Ennio Moricone
etc.
Electronic music;
Infected Mushroom
Yello
Boris Blank feat. Malia
ELO
etc.
And lots of tracks I picked up due to this strange hobby.
Not exactly like that but you could program something along those lines.
JRiver is just a (capable) music player with standard DSP features, on top of that you can load VST's for creating endless possibilities.
One can add all kind of tools to do as you like.
Don't take anything I said as an insult 🙂 The point was to say look at the drivers they used in that design. There was a reason for that. Use that to inform your own design.
Maybe define what "compact" means to you and how much space you have to use.
Take wesayso's subs, they had to fit in the space available the constraints limited the options.
There is the whole world of jazz for you to discover Ronald 🙂 (Zappa of course) Some great clean recordings from the mid to late fifties should sound wonderful on your system.
Bummer...it works so well...hey, only 19"x 19" x ?" 🙂
No column, no fuss.
And no having to fool with leaving linearity.... until house resonances clearly become a bigger issue 😉
I've never really got into Jazz, however I do tend to like Jazzy songs if you know what I mean.
I do love things like Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald etc. but I'd gather that under the things I picked up due to this strange hobby.
There is so much more out there that's wonderful, too much to mention. I tend to like the older recordings, in comparison the 80's were a lot of hit and miss.
But some new stuff is fun too, like Rival Sons and I do have some new Pop songs I throw in that hit it big on the Radio. Some of those image quite nice despite being crippled in dynamic range. They actually are listenable.
I do love things like Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald etc. but I'd gather that under the things I picked up due to this strange hobby.
There is so much more out there that's wonderful, too much to mention. I tend to like the older recordings, in comparison the 80's were a lot of hit and miss.
But some new stuff is fun too, like Rival Sons and I do have some new Pop songs I throw in that hit it big on the Radio. Some of those image quite nice despite being crippled in dynamic range. They actually are listenable.
You are young 😉, I only got into it over the last 10 years, discovered it on my own and found I have natural good taste 🙂 Monk, Mingus, Shorter........
Fair enough brother 😀 i hereby withdraw my recommendation 🙂
(hey, don't laugh...but i think i'm up to around the equivalent of 24 single prosound 18"s...gave up on the relationship stuff long ago !!)
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I'm all for it Mark! There really is no replacement for displacement. I'm scared of what a house of mine would look like if I were single. Always dreamed about that infinite baffle wall (brick wall of course) filled with drivers. When I was younger I was sure that one day I'd get that...
Oh, I thought you were younger for some reason, I'm only 2 years older, but I do like my slippers....
Lots of good artists I see on your list, some I don't know yet will get a spin on Spotify. Thanks for sharing.
What's the max spl that all the drivers in the towers sum up to, I wonder...
and, 1965 and 67, you are both young.
What's the max spl that all the drivers in the towers sum up to, I wonder...
and, 1965 and 67, you are both young.
Max SPL would vary by frequency. I cut the midrange around 250 Hz by quite a bit to level out cuts and boosts.
Theoretically it could reach above ~129 dB there and still be within power limits and x-max. Above that it would drop about 3 dB per octave.
Theoretically it could reach above ~129 dB there and still be within power limits and x-max. Above that it would drop about 3 dB per octave.
Wow that must mean delicate handling of the volume control 😀
About that...
I guess your main volume control is in the digital domain?
How did you determine the main amplifier's gain settings?
About that...
I guess your main volume control is in the digital domain?
How did you determine the main amplifier's gain settings?
I think compact .... is relative and much larger than what most better halve's would consider compact. It's really up to find what suits acoustically and also estetically as I work with my residential living room.
My better half thought that Sonus Faber Aida sized speakers would be good so I don't seem to have any sizing constraints coming from that side (I would never ever be able to afford those speakers though, and that's also way too large)
The short answer is that I don't know yet as I am in the process of building the layout of the living room of a flat I recently bought. At some point I need to do some real size mockup's to see how things work physically and couple that to simulations for a start 😛
Maybe I will make a limited size prototype with one or two drivers with same relative volume size for the drivers and test out how they are doing 😛
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