Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
I suggest googling various reviews of Jeff's designs - The Galileo /the Salk Archos, The Salk Pharos, Salk HTS, The Piccolo and Mandolin, The Kairos, the RS 180 MTM, and of course the continuum. It's tough for someone to describe their own voicing after all.:blues: Flat frequency response, a smooth sound power response free of resonance, careful driver-integration, and high dynamic range both upward and downward :blues:Comment
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
Perhaps Jeff can chime in sometime.Comment
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
I believe, from what I've read (and by all means, Jeff or anyone who has actually heard his designs correct me if I'm off base here), that Jeff generally goes for (and achieves) articulate, without being clinical, and I don't believe that he is really ever after squeezing that last bit of extension out a design; rather, he lets the driver do what it will, comfortably. And accurate mids are paramount.
Jeff, have I got that about right?;)
MarkYou go your way, I'll go mine. I don't care if we get there on time.
~Pink FloydComment
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
I believe, from what I've read (and by all means, Jeff or anyone who has actually heard his designs correct me if I'm off base here), that Jeff generally goes for (and achieves) articulate, without being clinical, and I don't believe that he is really ever after squeezing that last bit of extension out a design; rather, he lets the driver do what it will, comfortably. And accurate mids are paramount.
Jeff, have I got that about right?;)
Mark
Actually I think the question is a bit paradoxical and one that I would generally attempt to avoid answering and allow a third party to answer instead. My point above was that I am usually pretty consistent in what sounds correct to my ear in a speaker's balance, so most of my designs tend to have similar balance to them as a result. (As would be the case with most designers - I have noticed that Wolf's designs all sound similar too, which is a good thing, since they all sound pretty good to me.)
If I were to attempt to describe my "voicing", I would say that my design process is one that involves a combination of measurements and personal listening to a lot material that I familiar with. The measurements get me 95-99 % of the way there.
I tend to target a flat response. However, as anyone else who have been doing this for a while will tell you, flat still involves some small variations and those translate into some small changes in the sound of the speaker. In other words, within a fairly tight tolerance not all "flat" sounds alike. The polar response, power response, crossover point and slopes, all contribute to the sound too, so no single axial response tells the whole story of how a speaker sounds.
Because of this, I first focus on getting the midrange, and most importantly vocals to sound as "correct" and as natural as possible - sometimes with some very small changes until I am satisified that I can't get them any better. Then I attempt to balance the high frequencies to be flat with the vocal range, so the overall response from the upper bass through the top-end usually measures very flat, with on some very precise vartiations based on my "voicing".
Also, my speakers, have usually not been accused of being light or lean in the bass. I don't personally care for thin sounding speakers because they don't sound natural to me. I listen to a lot of live music (every week) and it doesn't sound thin to me either. I don't attempt to target the most extended bass possible for a driver, but sometimes I may have a very small emphasis in the upper to mid bass range in some designs (not all) if this makes the speaker sound more naturally balanced to me (like the Continuum or Piccolo, for example).
Beyond all of this I guess I would have to say that my "voicing" just ends up with a speaker that sounds right to me.
JeffComment
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
Any update on these guys? Tax return season is upon us :DComment
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Re: Interested in building Econowaves from scratch, anyone familiar?
What kind of amp do these puppies like? I pretty much only have low-end stuff like the Lepai TA2020+.Comment
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