Official System Photos Thread

[Cohibaman]

Originally Posted by Golucid

Well, the MLs 15k and VAs nearly 20k. What you describe is not a feature on either speaker sets

I don't know the ML's much at all. Only heard them a few times.

[chessman]

Originally Posted by Golucid

Well, the MLs 15k and VAs nearly 20k. What you describe is not a feature on either speaker sets

You are not missing anything. But that should be discussed in its own thread.

[jdandy]

David.......I knew you could do it. Thank you on behalf of the forum members. We have all been extremely curious what you've been assembling.

Man I love the way those stacked MC2301s look on the custom Sound Anchor stands. That idea paid off in spades. What a fine idea.

Pete's right, there's a long line of people who would part with their first born to have your system in their home, drapes and all.

We know you will kick ass when you have the new home ready for occupancy and we look forward to that day but all of us thank you for letting us bask in the glow of your blue lights. That is a beautiful sound system.

[chessman]

David, how did you integrate time alignment of panels and drivers?

[Golucid]

Originally Posted by chessman

David, how did you integrate time alignment of panels and drivers?

I do not even know what that is. I've only been at this for about a year. So you just blew past me!

I have an amp for each speaker...does that answer by chance?

[Cohibaman]

Originally Posted by Golucid

I've only been at this for about a year.

I've been at this a lifetime and I have one MC402.

Lol

[jdandy]

Originally Posted by Cohibaman

I've been at this a lifetime and I have one MC402.

Lol

Mike.......That beats the hell out of one of these. .

[Golucid]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Mike.......That beats the hell out of one of these. .

Gasp. Dan...you are spot on!

[Cohibaman]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Mike.......That beats the hell out of one of these. .

[chessman]

Originally Posted by Golucid

I do not even know what that is. I've only been at this for about a year. So you just blew past me!

I have an amp for each speaker...does that answer by chance?

Every driver (or panel) creates an impulse wave when it moves air, which our ears hear as sound. When a speaker uses more than one driver, it uses a cross-over circuit to cause one driver to operate in one frequency range and the other driver in the other frequency range. The simplest cross-over is a resister that block a frequency range (for example, bass blockers in car audio that keep tweeters from dying trying to reproduce a full signal). Many speakers have very complex internal cross-overs. Assuming that the cross-overs are working perfectly (i.e., woofer handles low and tweeter handles high with no discernible overlap) one still has a time problem. Small drivers move short distances to create high notes. Bigger woofers have to move farther to create long notes. Thus, if a piece of music has high and low notes that are supposed to be simultaneous, the challenge for the speaker designer is to make that happen when the bigger driver is inherently slower than the smaller one. Designers use electrical delay in the cross-over circuit, or tilt back tweeters to take advantage of off-axis response, or rake speaker height, or some combination of all of these. When you have two different designs of speakers I would think it would be a bear to get them to play simultaneously enough to sound linear. The proof is, of course, how do they sound?