Well I do listen from 2/3m away occasionally and I was hoping to get good speakers for that but also make them work near field. Floor is a small surface but I could easily add a rug, and my window has a fabric blind. What if I put sound panels behind the speakers and on the side of the speaker that's in the corner?
If you stay in that position for a long time, you should consider a wave guide for the tweeters. However, if you do move around a lot, you should consider a BMR (balanced mode radiator) or a baffle with exciter modules.
Experiment and see what you prefer. Acoustics can be as much an art as science.
You are right, the best speakers are an art as well as a milestone in science!
I absolutely prefer being 3m away on the bed and not having to toe-in the speakers as much. The problem is that I do a lot of work from my computer and I haven't been listening to music recently which makes me sad because of the fatigue issue. Strangely tho this has only been in the past month, before that I ran the B&W's up close with no problems. I don't know what happened.
I will eventually be building my own speakers, I jave already spoken to the CNC wood shop and have a ribbon tweeter in mind. Driver would be a scanspeak revelator designed for sealed enclosures. That being said, I would like to understand why the Totem mites sound so effortless compared to any other speaker in my system before spending a grand on the parts for my dyi speakers.
Just my 2cents since I own this amp by peachtree audio. The iDecco is an 40W per channel into 6W amplifier. I use it with some Paradigm V7, 2 way towers for casual listening to my TV and some amazon music. I am in the process of selling the system to a friend. Enjoyable, but far from high end. Here are a couple of reviews to enjoy. https://6moons.com/audioreviews/idecco/idecco_3.html and https://www.stereophile.com/content/peachtree-idecco-da-integrated-amplifier
Hope this gives you some insight and help.
MM
Hope this gives you some insight and help.
MM
From 3m away, you are hearing a lot more of the room sound, and a lot less of the direct sound.
What's really the issue is, you are divert from near field to far-field whyn moving. You need a speaker which can perform well in both enviroments.
I skimmed over that quickly as I am just heading home, I will read on more detail tonight. I saw in the article they reference the iDecco and original Nova. The Nova 150 is completely different apparently without the tubes and much higher SNR, also made in Canada vs China. I haven't heard of the iDecco but I haven't seen it for sale on my 400-650 budget.
I guess I could have two pairs of speakers as well, the Totems for nearfield and the Audio Physic's for far. I theoretically have room for two wall mounts on each side of the monitor. The only issue is that when I did have two speakers next to each other in that manner, the Audio Physics sounded pretty bad, I think it had to do with rear port stuff but the bass was gone at 3m while now that they sit alone on the stands with some room to breathe the bass is too powerful.
That's a comprehensible analogy but it doesn't apply for impedance. That might or migh not apply to @Sebastian F - depending on his speakers and their impedance. If you are implying high efficiency/spl drivers are reducing the amp requirements by a lot, then I completely agree. Though, low impedances are a real problem for most of the low powered amps (while at the same time sounding great!), so you need to select your amp not only on the spl but also on the impedance of the speakers.
That sounds bizarre. Something is definitely wrong.
If I recall, Bob Carver's original True Subwoofer can produce 120 dB at 20 Hz with an internal 2.7 kiloWatt Class H amplifier, plus a drone. I epoxied some weight to my drone 30 years ago, to eek out 18 Hz.
If I recall, Bob Carver's original True Subwoofer can produce 120 dB at 20 Hz with an internal 2.7 kiloWatt Class H amplifier, plus a drone. I epoxied some weight to my drone 30 years ago, to eek out 18 Hz.
Fully agree! If you've got higher spl speakers, it's even suitable for a quite larger area. For a better advice it would be very beneficial what kind of speakers you are using and what's the listening distance is.
I find 80w rms plays louder then I want while not clipping so 40 rms should be fine.
Hmm, well if the amp is rated for 4 ohm and produces double the wattage at 4 ohm, it should be okay right? I just did some testing, and there is absolutely no way I can max out my current 80WPC integrated amp. I turned my dac down to 0 and put the volume knob on the amp to 0db (max) and I could barely get past 50% on the dac. Vice versa too, if I leave the dac at 100%, and I turn the volume knob, I can get up to -20db but it is very loud. -40db is pretty good, I would say I am usually at -50db if the dac is 100%. (my pc from where the music is coming from is at 70% btw). So if the 40wpc on the simaudio is equivalent to -40db on my 80wpc I should be good, I imagine it could go a tiny bit louder anyways. The sensitivity on the Yara 2's is 88db according to this link :
http://www.audioreview.com/product/speakers/bookshelf-speakers/audio-physic/yara-ii-compact.html