Recent content by emcdade
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The new Serafino!
Ok got a few hours in this weekend. Electronics were all ARC, driven by an ARC tube amp (can't remember model number but it wasn't the Ref). I was surprised there was so much treble. I wouldn't call them bright or harsh or anything but there was s touch too much for my taste. I didn't...- emcdade
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- Forum: Sonus Faber Forum
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The new Serafino!
I might demo them this weekend and post back here. I heard the new Guarneri's and was simply blown away. These are quite a bit different than the old line. Compared to O3 the new G's vocals were less recessed, more presence. O3 clarity a class below easily. The best way to describe them...- emcdade
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- Forum: Sonus Faber Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
That's not what people do though. They show off a measured response in REW to validate their efforts/money spent.- emcdade
- Post #129
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
Then almost all broadband equalization attempts are done incorrectly because: A. We don't hear with a single microphone, we have a head with two ears. B. EQ systems don't account for the directivity of the speaker. Sounds to me like an EQ'd frequency response, particularly in the...- emcdade
- Post #123
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
You misunderstood the analogy. I'm saying that we cue into the direct sound of someone's voice regardless of what room we're in. You sound like you, not a room. Same applies to a loudspeaker. And the entire point of running a Dirac curve that matched measured response would be to gain the...- emcdade
- Post #119
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
Well Hales believes we cue into the direct sound of the speaker, and I agree. It's the reason why your voice still sounds like you when you walk from the living room into the dining room. The same applies to a loudspeaker. This of course assumes you have a decent room that isn't wall to wall...- emcdade
- Post #113
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
That depends, how did you decide which speaker to purchase? Did you audition them and pick which one you liked? Or did you just pick one and imagine what it would sound like with EQ applied? And again how do you know you're even "correcting" the speaker to your target curve when a mic=\=...- emcdade
- Post #109
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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Redefine your budget room EQ 'flat' target curve to Harman's pro curve
This was the most enlightening discussion regarding room acoustics and EQ I've ever heard from Paul Hales on HTG. https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks/episodes/164 He believes EQ should only be applied responsibly below 200 hz. The crux of his argument is that most decent speakers...- emcdade
- Post #107
- Forum: Digital Room Eq Forum
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