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From: bob wald on 20 Apr 2010 11:48
well im looking at buying some nice home speakers....i been thinking.
i been thinking..instead of 4 or 6 speakers...
ill go 2 or 4.
i was thinking...youll do ALOT better with fewer speakers n increase
the power going to fewer channels.increasing your max power n lowering
your noise too.
in the house i might even go 1 speaker.since home acoustics are so good
n noise free.unlike a car.
but im thinking this might apply to cars in away....
if you have 4 subs from say 2 amps. i think youd do better with just 2
subs.
youd increase your max power from the same 2 amps......hmmmmmm
anyways im stuck between polk n yamaha home speakers....infinity
too.....

From: OldSch00lf00l on 20 Apr 2010 12:20
bob wald wrote:
> well im looking at buying some nice home speakers....i been thinking.
> i been thinking..instead of 4 or 6 speakers...
> ill go 2 or 4.
> i was thinking...youll do ALOT better with fewer speakers n increase
> the power going to fewer channels.increasing your max power n lowering
> your noise too.
> in the house i might even go 1 speaker.since home acoustics are so good
> n noise free.unlike a car.
> but im thinking this might apply to cars in away....
> if you have 4 subs from say 2 amps. i think youd do better with just 2
> subs.
> youd increase your max power from the same 2 amps......hmmmmmm
> anyways im stuck between polk n yamaha home speakers....infinity
> too.....
>

BUT, vehicles have the transfer function, also known as cabin gain.
Unfortunately in a home, that is virtually non-existent.

The main thing that I like about a home setup is that I can control the
listening environment and it is relatively easy to do away with
reflections and resonances. Good luck in a motorized vehicle made of
sheet metal, glass, plastic, and rubber. Also, we can't forget about
the annoyances caused by road noise, wind noise, and other extraneous
variables beyond our control in a motor vehicle.

The only downside to the home environment is that I found that I needed
to build my enclosures much larger and tune them much lower in order to
achieve a decent sub bass response. For example, in my vehicle, a pair
of 10s in 3 cubic feet net tuned to 32 Hz would give me bass all the way
down to 20 Hz while providing way more sub bass than I could ever
possibly want to deal with. In the home, that same enclosure performs
like it is a great midbass driver and I would roughly need 3 cubic feet
PER 10 tuned to about 19 Hz in order to have a fairly flat frequency
response down to 20 Hz.

I am about to get back into home theater as my next hobby. Heaven help
my bank account...
From: bob wald on 20 Apr 2010 13:00
im looking at a tower speaker. ever heard of bic brand.
looking at jbl too. but jbl may be abit too mass production.....common.
not up to a polk or infinity home speaker.
ever hear of altec ....

From: bob wald on 20 Apr 2010 13:05
down to 20hz...lol you know over 90%of low notes dont go below
26hz......maybe higher. 96%.
if you got beat by alot of 30hz notes in a great box..your ears would
bleed soon id bet....lol
just a example but more true than a joke.

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