Elac 310 (400w) 2-10s
Onkyo TX-NR636
Yeah, Onkyo has a “music optimization” which is supposed to “enhance” compressed music. It’s just an EQ.
Thanks for all the guidance so far. It’s been an enjoyable journey!
Yeah, Onkyo has a “music optimization” which is supposed to “enhance” compressed music. It’s just an EQ.
Thanks for all the guidance so far. It’s been an enjoyable journey!
Onkyo has an autoEQ function that "manages" that.
It's pulses the speakers and sets speaker type and such. I am pretty sure they're set to small.
I have the low pass on the sub set at 65, 10 above the min range on the speaker.
So this whole sub-woofer thing just confuses the heck out of me. Perhaps it's because I've chosen to go with an older two channel architecture. A tube amp with left and right speaker outputs only.
I just can't wrap my head around adding a sub-woofer, with it's own separate solid state amp, between my tube amp and the speakers. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to defeat the investment. Tube amp and carefully selected tubes, cables and speakers to achieve a certain sound. Then plop the sub-woofer between them for more bump only to loose the sound I've achieved by introducing a solid state amp, which I believe will adversely affect the sound coming out of my speakers negating any improvements my tube and tubes may have given me. That and the fact that I'd want the sub on the other side of the room someplace, which would make cabling visible, ugly and insanely expensive. I'd love to have more punch, but not at the expense of fidelity and aesthetics.
In my inlaws movie room we have these hooked up as well, for more *umph*
https://www.amazon.com/Clark-Synthesis-TST329-Gold-Transducer/dp/B0002Z8CHG
:laughing
So this whole sub-woofer thing ...
Subwoofers were primarily developed for Home Theater and I have a 15" sealed servo subwoofer with a 1250 watt amp in my main home theater that has a 15hz bass extension spec.
Subs have been in use long before home theater was a thing. In college we used all tube gear, preamps and main amps, but bi-amped the setup with a crossover between the preamp and the power amps. The mains were tube amps, while the subs were run by SS amps. For the lows, you don't need or want tube amps unless you like wooly, uncontrolled bass. The crossover didn't degrade the signal from the pre and resulted in a setup where the mains and main amps only had to deal with the frequencies above the cross-over point.
This was for our main PA system. A lot of acts came through and they all raved about our system, always prefering it to their own. The Joffrey Ballet said it was the best sounding system they had ever heard anywhere.
The guy who conceived the setup ran a similar configuration for his home system; Marantz tube pre, crossover, McIntosh 2100 for the mids and highs, Mac 2300 (SS) for the subs. Dahlquist DQ-10 mains and a pair of Dahlquist (I think) subs. Probably still the best sounding system I've ever heard.
My wife LOVED the sound of the Martin Logan’s we saw at a Magnolia month’s ago. She walked away quickly when the rep shared the price. :laughing I’d love to have a pair some day.
Note that the LX16s at almost half the price of the Motion 15s are identical, it was a simple name change that sidelined the LX16 as Martin Logan rebadged their non ESL speakers as the Motion series.
https://www.amazon.com/MartinLogan-...ocphy=9032332&hvtargid=pla-567491409776&psc=1
Those are affordable big time. The ones we looked at were quite a bit bigger. Like REALLY big...
MartinLogan - ElectroMotion ESL 8" Floor Speaker (Each) - Black