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i remember hearing those ar's at lafayette electronics on bedford ave . i think my first serious speakers were the dalquist dq10's . i spent decades buying and selling high end audio equipment as a hobby. i had some pretty crazy stuff over the years . some were huge systems like the baby infinity reference system with it's four towers .
When we moved into Manhattan I threw out my Technics turntable and 1,000 LP's. Thinking about it can still get me near tears.
I need to audio up my theater setup...still using Dolby Pro Logic so my next buy will be a good receiver, a better midrange, and a subwoofer, although WHY 12 inch rectilinear woofers won't handle the bass properly still eludes me. The array of choices is uber-dazzling these days.
the cabinet with the the rectiliners is a compromise in frequency .
the enclosure and room a sub is put in determines its frequency range.
drop a 12" driver in a room in no enclosure and it will not even cover the entire mid range .
the enclosure for the rectiliaears has to do all frequency's so it can not go low . basically you get a mid bass peak with them and not much low bass like a sub
the enclosure for the rectiliaears has to do all frequency's so it can not go low . basically you get a mid bass peak with them and not much low bass like a sub
On my Rectilinears, the 16 hz. organ pedal notes of the Saint Saens Organ Symphony come through clean and it can make your chest vibrate in tune. For me that symphony has always been the standard of bass perfection. Most speakers just make a muddied mess of those notes...sort of a death rattle. Probably many recordings do not even bother trying to reproduce that nearly inaudible note. Sometimes the needle jumps the recording track.
Last edited by Kefir King; 10-15-2016 at 08:16 AM..
60 -80hz is really mid bass .low bass which is hard to achieve at plus or minus 3db is around 30hz. it is very low and just as much room dependent as speaker dependent .
any speaker worth anything should do 60hz at plus or minus 3db . but many do not , below 50hz they drop off a cliff
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