Search results

AVForums

Help Support AVForums:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. T

    Lets design a perfect room ?

    Trinnov already have a tetrahedral 4 source mic that does spacial orientation of measurements..this too is subject to the laws of physics. The tools to optimize multiple subs and SBIR for main speakers aren't hard to get to grips with. Doing that gets one 90% of the way there if the room...
  2. T

    Lets design a perfect room ?

    Awesome progress. Dirac and Lyngdorf often end up sounding quite tight, but often are some ways short of an optimal subwoofer integration, the acoustics at low frequencies in small rooms are just such that a time alignment per impulse and a global EQ or per subwoofer EQ do not address the modes...
  3. T

    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    I am out owing to hospitalization. plenty of cables audibly beeping. Hope the Tupperware is good.
  4. T

    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    Guys, I've not been able to follow the thread and what I've skimmed seems rather... entertaining. I haven't seen anything that satisfies the scientific curiosity from the set out. Is there a protocol established?
  5. T

    Dust

    Mechanical ventilation: positive air pressure ventilation with a filter.
  6. T

    Seeking Advice

    I would say this seems like a very live room with some asymmetrical features. The large connected areas typically make for a large room regards the bass which is beneficial i.t.o modes but not for noise abatement. Treatment has to be distributed over all the connected areas or the room divided...
  7. T

    Sonor Audio

    I guess this is the situation that the cost of export is currently so prohibitive, that offering the difference to local buyers makes this the challenge that it is. I know a German distributer pulled out after reading an outdated dealer pricelist somewhere, the contents of which were published...
  8. T

    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    Already some people looking to set the frame. Same who engaged in ad hominem earlier. I am still awaiting a protocol and setup that is anything other than a hifi tupperware party. My personal beliefs is that cables are some kind of jewelry. They do make a difference and that difference is...
  9. T

    How loud do you listen?

    I typically listen at a SPL leq(A) around 65-70dB. If I really am into the music I will bump that up a little bit. Loud speakers are a lot of fun as they have an ease of delivering dynamics and large baffles and/or higher directivity speakers and treated rooms have a means of communicating with...
  10. T

    When to get a bigger centre speaker and bigger rear surrounds? (Bentley FC100 vs FC150 and FR50 vs FR80)

    Get that chip off your shoulder mate. bbe2 spent quite some time neatly drawing out the options and trying to explain things in a manner that highlight the fundamentals which speaker topologies are suited for the application and which are such that one could almost consider anything, including...
  11. T

    When to get a bigger centre speaker and bigger rear surrounds? (Bentley FC100 vs FC150 and FR50 vs FR80)

    If you ever meet bbe2 condescent is the last impression you would ever walk away from a meeting with. Center speakers are great for vocal intelligibility, no doubt. I just like the voice to fit in with the mains and music and to be quite frank there is almost always a lot of meat left on the...
  12. T

    Max household Amperage Draw

    For your EV charging circuit, you would have an electrician lay a new circuit which would have to fit into the overall design of the house's electric standards as to satisfy the relevant SANS standards.
  13. T

    Max household Amperage Draw

    Not a sparky but my 2c: The limit is set by your municipal connection. Typically for 16mm^2 cable and most houses this this is set at 63A though 40A and 20A connections are also possible. The breakers protect the circuit's (cable's) rated ampacity. There are standards that set these. The mains...
  14. T

    When to get a bigger centre speaker and bigger rear surrounds? (Bentley FC100 vs FC150 and FR50 vs FR80)

    Go out and experience more setups for yourself. Me personally I prefer stereo over surround, just one of those things. I just enjoy music over hollywood movies (high production value, low value otherwise). I am not a fan of most MTM center speakers regardless of brand as I like my center to be...
  15. T

    When to get a bigger centre speaker and bigger rear surrounds? (Bentley FC100 vs FC150 and FR50 vs FR80)

    I don't even mean nailing treatment panels into the room, positioning , toe in, spacing from the front wall, furnishings. The Bentley centers are no different in the regard than most other center speakers in that turning a MTM speaker 90 degrees has vastly different polar response. The...
  16. T

    When to get a bigger centre speaker and bigger rear surrounds? (Bentley FC100 vs FC150 and FR50 vs FR80)

    Before you start spending, sort out the room config with what you have. 4x4 rooms have plenty of challenges. With LCR and side/surrounds it's best one have speakers that have similar power response. This means that the speaker's timbre are ideally close/matched in sales speak. It also means...
  17. T

    Home Cinema build - Dedicated room (50% complete)

    With proper adjustment the MiniDSP is definitely the tool for the job, you want to mono sum the sub outputs and then optimize.
  18. T

    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    The best protocol for the job is the A/B/X....Present DUT A....Present DUT B... Participant Chooses X on randomly selected A/B. Audio memory is so short that it's the lowest hurdle one can present to give the listener a fair chance. Usually performed with an automation doing the switching, in...
  19. T

    JHB Cable Listening Experiment

    Date is fine for now, I was just a bit inactive on the forum. I haven't read through all of the thread but it would appear as if there isn't yet a protocol established?
  20. T

    Skyline Diffuser DIY - A question...

    Those types of panels (RPG BAD is the patent and this is a clone/inspiration of the GiK pattern to work around the patent) diffuse slightly above 1kHz, they have really good LF absorption though and for a given cost are a great addition to many rooms, especially with carpet.
Top