Recent content by Flint

Now some joyful Piano jazz trio live tunes.

Loving me some classic powerpop from Chewy Marble:

Well, I've been lucky to get to spend time in the hot seat in small mixing rooms for TV and BluRay audio mastering and I did not feel especially enamored to the height channels in those "ideal" setups. However, in the huge cinema mixing facilities with 350 seats and a 50 foot screen, I was...

This is the dilemma we face, just as we have to deal with it concerning subwoofers. The most natural performance from subs which most accurately resembles real life sounds is when the sub is not loud enough to stand out from the main speakers, but then we often feel we are not getting our...

Very generally - out listening mechanism isn't designed for instantly recognizing vertical placement of sounds. We can do it when a sound is repeated by turning our heads to the side, or tilting it more than a tiny amount, but we are designed to be very accurate at placing sounds in front of us...

Heeman has the data if anyone cares to see it, but the dynamic range performance of these speakers in his room are stunning. Similarly, the room decay across the entire frequency range, even in the bass, is about as good as it can get - far better than 95% of the dedicated listening rooms out there.

Here's a good summary of Heeman's speakers' frequency response at the listening position.

Last week I traveled to Alabama and spent a solid 9 days with our friend Keith enjoying his wife's abundant hosting and Keith's great listening room. We spent dozens of hours listening to the new loudspeakers, fine adjusting the placement in the room, tuning the crossovers to achieve ideal...

1) I have to see that proven with real world testing. That said, S/N is one of the last differentiators between high end components given they have reached levels of perfection WAY beyond human perception, even the best listeners. 2) Saying they came from a company known for stellar engineering...

To a certain extent, yes. I am sure they tuned them to have a large window area of effectiveness while still being silent further away.

I just spent nearly two hours with our friend, Heeman, helping him measure and tune his crossovers, and he was a total delight to work with. I have rarely encountered someone who immediately understood what I was suggesting they do and actually execute on both changing settings and making new...

Those use the same technology that Yamaha's steerable HT speaker array from 13 years ago. Using phase relationships between multiple ultrasonic sources creates sound at a single spot and only at that single spot when they combine. They are based on the inverse of the phase array mic or radar...

I believe these will be among the best sounding speakers of this class (traditional cone drivers in a modest sized solution) used today. I don't know how it could get much better without some VERY costly, complex, and size/shape changes which would make no sense for @heeman to use.

I would love to learn about the noise floor of that unit. One of the things I love about many of the modern and very affordable class-d amps is their shockingly low noise floors in real world use. Often so low you cannot tell the system is even on until the music starts. But, in my tests at...

If you are selling and no one is biting, let me know. I don't need one right now, but I tend to buy about 3 to 5 a year.