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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Thu, 23 June 2011 19:26 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: 3pi, smaller cab possible?
Well, it makes the preferred listening area narrower. But if all you need is a few feet for a couch, I guess that's alright. That photo was taken in a small hotel room. No room for any wider spacing.
If you separate the speakers further, you'll hav...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Thu, 05 May 2011 14:42 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Are 7 Pi's for me?
If I understand you right, I think you're saying you can put the cornerhorns at each end of a short wall that has two windows, each a couple feet from the corners. One of the adjacent walls also has a window but there are no entryways near the corners y...
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Forum: Home Theater «»
Posted on: Thu, 03 March 2011 10:59 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Are home theaters as good as movie theaters?
The speakers in the home theater shown in the post above will produce 100dB with a mere 2 watts input. Reaching 120dB only takes 200 watts and they're not even breaking a sweat at that power level. Considering the size of the home theater is just a few...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Thu, 24 February 2011 15:30 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Pi 4 Owners: How Big is your "space"
I agree. The controlled directivity and response characteristics will undoubtedly make the four π sound much more controlled and refined. The reverberant field is more uniform. The room has less influence on a speaker like this because of its directiv...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Tue, 22 February 2011 13:53 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: 4 pi, oh my!
We pay extremely close attention to the crossover region, because it is so important to a speaker designed for uniform directivity. See the document attached in my last reply for a complete explanation.
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Tue, 08 February 2011 12:35 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Plans Request
There's no harm in using modal smoothing, no matter what kind of loudspeaker you use. But the best approach, obviously, is to start with mains that provide constant directivity at high frequency. Then when you use the multisub approach to provide a uni...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Sat, 05 February 2011 10:00 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: 2Pi Tower or 3Pi Bassreflex questions
These are two very different designs, almost incomparable. But they do have some notable similarities, such as spectral balance. They both work very well with low power tube amps, providing high sensitivity and a benign impedance curve. Beyond those a...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Tue, 01 February 2011 10:09 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Home Theater Setup
Honestly, I don't like making the center channel speaker different than the left and right speakers. If you can't make them the same, I'd prefer not to even use a center speaker. Use a phantom center instead. You can configure the home theater this wa...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Thu, 06 January 2011 16:37 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Help with tweeter to woofer distance please
With direct radiators, closer is better in almost all cases. The thing you have to juggle is the fore/aft spacing and crossover phase. With first-order, it's a pretty good rule of thumb to align the voice coils on direct radiators but that only really ...
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Forum: Pi Speakers «»
Posted on: Mon, 27 December 2010 10:12 «»
By: Wayne Parham
Re: Constant directivity verses on-axis EQ for non-uniform directivity (aka baffle step filters)
Glad it was helpful. I hope it made sense and wasn't too abstract.
I find myself getting a lot of the same questions and comments over the years, and I tend to link to past posts in reply. I had a list of about a dozen posts that sort of covered the...
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