Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Helium - a true micromonitor
Collapse
X
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
Love the all white finish on those! Nice work.
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
I brought the Heliums to my friend gtg in Plainfield, il. A bunch of avs guys were there. A great time had by all. All the guys were very impressed with the Heliums. With lots of high sensitivity designs there, they of course could not play as loud but they sure did sound really nice and clear and really threw out a wonderful image, they disappeared into the room. The only other speakers that had this disappearing effect (the sound stage and image are there, but don't seem to be coming from the speakers themselves) as I call it, were Jeff B. designed Fusion 8 towers.
Sitting on top of Sentinel v2 15"
On to of the 1099
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
Whoa...GOT BASS? Whose HT is that?Bryan K.
Midwest Audio Club
Speedster | Sub Attaché | The Wildeman | Sean's NLA Towers | COÜGAR, COUGAR II and COÜGAR JR | Triton | Lithium | J-Boom | Trym MLTL | Docere MLTL
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
My friend Mike's. He's Eng-399 on AVS. He's got a thread on the gtg which doubles as his theater build thread too. Those are 4 Stereo Integrity HT18's tuned to 16hz. His mains are Behringer B215xl's. It definitely rocks!
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
Originally posted by corradizo View PostI brought the Heliums to my friend gtg in Plainfield, il. A bunch of avs guys were there. A great time had by all. With lots of high sensitivity designs there, they of course could not play as loud but they sure did sound really nice and clear and really threw out a wonderful image, they disappeared into the room.
Comment
-
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
I recently installed my Heliums on the wall next to each side of my TV which is also mounted pretty high up on the wally. As I expected the baffle step circuit greatly increased the bass all the way into the mid-bass about 200hz. I was impressed to have a solid response down to 60hz! I employed a great little app called equalizer apo on my laptop along with REW to flatten it all out. After doing so, these babies sound even better!!
Here is my REW file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/alwh7ae5un...%202.mdat?dl=0
I don't have a HPF set so i suspect they'll sound better once i get a proper receiver. I have so far eq'ed flat across the lower octaves. I noticed distortion rising towards 60hz so i'm going to need to re-eq when i get a chance.
hope i'm doing all this right. all measurements were at the MLP using a mic stand. I can't help but wonder if i should take measurements within a foot or so directly in front of the speaker in order to better flatten the response?
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
If your listening position is pretty well defined, equalizing there should be the best choice. It might be worth moving the mic a few feet in each direction as a sanity check to make sure you aren't over equalizing a localized room-induced cancellation. The more sophisticated room correction algorithms average multiple mic positions.
Comment
-
Re: Helium - a true micromonitor
Very nice work, sir!
Just beautiful,
Wolf"Wolf, you shall now be known as "King of the Zip ties." -Pete00t
"Wolf and speakers equivalent to Picasso and 'Blue'" -dantheman
"He is a true ambassador for this forum and speaker DIY in general." -Ed Froste
"We're all in this together, so keep your stick on the ice!" - Red Green aka Steve Smith
*InDIYana event website*
Photobucket pages:
https://app.photobucket.com/u/wolf_teeth_speaker
My blog/writeups/thoughts here at PE:
http://techtalk.parts-express.com/blog.php?u=4102
Comment
Comment