Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30th, 2005
Salk EXT Tower Speakers
Jim Salk of Salk Signature Sound has unveiled new floorstanding speakers today at the Rockey Mountain Audio Fest. The speakers appear to be a 2 way MTM alignment. I won’t speculate on the identity of the drivers but they are a departure from the Aurum Cantus ribbon tweeters and Seas magnesium coned midwoofers [...]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Response Audio Bella SP/AV-1
Response Audio has begun modding SP Technology’s new budget speaker, the A/V-1. The modifications include changes to the crossover and internal arrangement of the system.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Rocket UFW-12 Subwoofer
The Rocket UFW-12 has finally begun shipping. This subwoofer uses a stout 12in custom woofer in a sealed 21in cube powered by a 1000w amp; the enclosure comes with the usual rocket trimmings (real rosewood veneer and piano black endcaps). This subwoofer should be competitive with the best of the best in the [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
RAD Home Theater 3-Way Speakers
Brian Bunge of RAD Home Theater has some impressive looking 3-way tower speakers in development. The speaker uses drivers from Parts Express; it uses 2 Dayton RS 10 woofers, 2 Dayton RS 7 mids, and a Dayton RS 28A tweeter.
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Break in: Fact or Fiction??
The Audioholics take on the age old question…do speakers actually break in or is it just the listener’s ears that are making the adjustment?
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Denon AVR-3806 & AVR-4306 Receviers
Denon has recently released updated versions of two of their mid-range receivers. Both have HDMI 1.1 video cross conversion from the analog video ports. Both include a version of the Audyssey MultEq Room Correction software and a microphone. At this point it is unknown whether the 4306 will use the high end [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
Axiom Ep600 vs SVS PB12 Ultra
Craig Chase has posted a detailed comparison of Axiom’s EP600 compared with a pair of SVS’s PB12 Ultras. The comparison includes objective (spl and frequency response measurements) and subjective (music and movie listening tests) data.
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EP600 Info and Specs
PB12-Ultra Info and Specs
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
DIY Cable Custom Amplifier
DIY Cable is building custom amplifiers using the stellar sounding Hypex UCD180 and UCD400 modules (names are indicative of their power into a 4-ohm load). These are not inexpensive amplifiers but you certainly get what you pay for and you are able to choose which options fit with your budget and your system.
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Panasonic SA-XR55 Receiver Innards
There’s an interesting thread on Audiocircle with some detailed pictures of the insides of Panasonic’s newest XR series receiver. The pictures should be of some interest for those planning to do mods on this receiver. There are even some pictures of some of the older XR series receivers for comparison.
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Exodus Audio Speaker Kits
DIY Cable has recently introduced a line of speaker kits using the WR125S 4.5in midrange driver, extremis 6.8in woofer and Usher Audio 9950C-15 tweeter. These speakers are available as kits from the DIY Cable website or fully assembled from RAW Acoustics.
Speaker kit info
Finished speaker info
