A few weeks ago a little birdy whispered in ThomasW's ear that it might be interesting to see what his B&G ribbons could do mated to his large system- suggesting what is essentially a four way configuration, with the Acoustat panels and B&G ribbon forming a "lateral" MTM- with possibly the addition of the Technics ribbons as a super tweeter.
Thomas hasn't been idle, and this weekend we spent a bit of time (while I'm in Denver on business) tweaking up this setup.
We're both quite pleased with the results- the B&G RD75 covers the area from 600 Hz to 7 kHz, which is pretty much ideal for it- and makes for a much larger sweet spot than when the Acoustat panels were trying to handle up to 7 kHz, even with our "enhancements" to placement to improve dispersion. It's definitly taken Thomas's system up a big step- now, it' compares well with the big Apogee system's I've heard, and it wasn't close to that league previously. I think this is the ideal range to use the B&G ribbons, as it avoides the dispersion issues in the top octave and a half, and it keeps the overall ribbon travel and distortion down by not running down to 400 or 250 as some try to do.
It also gave us a good excuse to check out ETF and get that MLS measurement system dialed in and calibrated on his HTPC.
Regards,
Jon
Earth First!
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We'll screw up the other planets later....
Thomas hasn't been idle, and this weekend we spent a bit of time (while I'm in Denver on business) tweaking up this setup.
We're both quite pleased with the results- the B&G RD75 covers the area from 600 Hz to 7 kHz, which is pretty much ideal for it- and makes for a much larger sweet spot than when the Acoustat panels were trying to handle up to 7 kHz, even with our "enhancements" to placement to improve dispersion. It's definitly taken Thomas's system up a big step- now, it' compares well with the big Apogee system's I've heard, and it wasn't close to that league previously. I think this is the ideal range to use the B&G ribbons, as it avoides the dispersion issues in the top octave and a half, and it keeps the overall ribbon travel and distortion down by not running down to 400 or 250 as some try to do.
It also gave us a good excuse to check out ETF and get that MLS measurement system dialed in and calibrated on his HTPC.
Regards,
Jon
Earth First!
_______________________________
We'll screw up the other planets later....
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