A for me. The streams are also a bit awkward to access because they’re muted by default.

For me, slam, is really a lower frequency transient, caused by say an energetic plucking of a double bass string or a crack on a drum. The joy of hearing it might very much depend upon whether it was there in the original performance. And - not for me to say - where does tunedem fit into this? FWIW...

matthias wrote: ↑2023-11-29 23:25 It is very interesting to search for keyword "slam" on this forum and even more when you combine this with search for author.

That’s possibly quite interesting Matthias! Would you like to elaborate?

Is slam a good attribute? Can there be poor slam? How would we be able to tell the difference?

I prefer B

…. It’s nothing but a second hand artefact. Oftentimes in life, we have to be careful what we wish for. This is particularly so within the realm of high fidelity, or audiophilia. Ever since Linn introduced the Isobarik’s with their ability to produce prodigious amounts of super tight bass, particula...

springwood64 wrote: ↑2023-11-24 08:15 We found ourselves discussing the music and the musicians throughout the session.

Welcome to the world of Källa!

Fantastic Pete! Linn Records would often use Espek’s to monitor their recordings in preference to any other speaker, so you’ve got a great system there. Enjoy!

I've never designed or built a loudspeaker in my life, but I do know that any material will damp resonances at some frequencies. It's also pretty well known that symmetry is not a must for speaker cabinets for performace reasons, they are done more for cost reasons. This makes me thing that experim...

What happens if you have a tunefork resonanse from the cabinet exactly at the frequency of a musical tone ? Remember you can always build a stiff, high Q resonating cabinet without tunefork effects if you use different thickness on every opposite wall in the speaker, also the sidewalls . This will ...

Maybe there is also an inverse relation between dimensions and musicality? Possibly. I’ve a feeling that each additional kg, regardless of its role or purpose, reduces musicality due to the time it takes for vibrations to decay, thus smearing transients. However, increasing the size of the enclosur...

On the subject of lower mass cabinets, I've heard quite a few open baffle designs (with conventional drivers, not referring here to electrostatics) - essentially as low mass as practically possible. I haven't found any of them to be musical - although most were DIY designs, but that's not an automa...

This week I’m building an enclosure of approximately 600 x 250 x 250 which weighs about the same as the original Kans. Maybe there is also an inverse relation between dimensions and musicality? Possibly. I’ve a feeling that each additional kg, regardless of its role or purpose, reduces musicality d...

Another factor in what possibly makes a loudspeaker more musical is a lower enclosure mass. This flies in the face of conventional audiophile wisdom which suggests that the best enclosures are heavy and rigidly braced. However, to date, everything I’ve done to eliminate enclosure resonances, which i...

……… the cabinet is mechanically intertwined with the driver and alters its electrical behaviour…… This isn’t something I’ve considered previously, but I suppose it must do. Can you expand on this, or provide a link to further information please? Here are the electrical measurements of a mid-bass dr...

sunbeamgls wrote: ↑2023-11-20 19:17 It just makes an unknown variable into a known parameter that can be designed around.

Has this ever been done, do you know?

Imagine also having a bespoke design built only to work in your room, given the room is part of the acoustic system. Very expensive, I imagine! That’s an interesting idea! It also raises the question, how would the design process differ from any other loudspeaker designed to play tunes harmoniously?

Yes I have - always prefered the lowest resistance coils ( ie 1.6 mm ). Did you try anything even larger? 3mm² for instance? No OK. Then it’s quite possible that, for your particular application, 3mm² could be less musical than 1.6mm² even though its resistance would be lower. This is something I’v...

True, but even If one uses a thick wire coil with very low resistance of, maybe 0.3 ohms its still more than 0 ohms that you get from a directly coupled amplifier. Using a thin wire coil can make the series resistance as high as 1 ohm . Have you tried listening for the effect of coil resistance on ...

Recommendations for components that struggle to play tunes harmoniously should have no place on a Tune Method moderated forum!

The coil in series with the bass driver always has some resistance, enough to make the amplifier connection to the driver worse at low frequencies where they are needed the most . This is where active crossovers has their biggest advantage because of the directly coupled power amplifier. These are ...

Rutger wrote: ↑2023-11-20 13:01 The coil and the capacitor connected in series has the signal traveling through them before it reaches the driveunits.

Here’s the same circuit, but rearranged slightly.

Its true though that a passive crossover are more intertwined with the driveunits in a passive speaker, but not in a good way. It looses the direct amplifier connection with passive components that can only do damping of the energy coming to the drivers. It makes the amplifier loose the control of ...

sunbeamgls wrote: ↑2023-11-20 11:00 ……… the cabinet is mechanically intertwined with the driver and alters its electrical behaviour……

This isn’t something I’ve considered previously, but I suppose it must do. Can you expand on this, or provide a link to further information please?

Here’s a first order series connected crossover and drive unit system. Please explain how a hierarchy of components works in this instance.