Speaker Shootout!! - Page 38

Oh I am selling the W8's for $300 shipped if you are not on the west coast!

I never worked for M&K but I was a big fan and owned most of their speakers upgrading.

BTW, I can run my subs 6 dBs hit with a low shelf added and my vocals are crystal clear.

A while ago I had bought upgraded eD cinema speakers with the kappalite 3012HO and the midbass was better than my DR-200's at the time. Actually they had the best midbass of all speakers except the JBL's(dual 15's) and the Titan 39's. So my question would be would a Titan 39 have more midbass than a DR-280? I crossover at 80hz so extension is out of the equation. Will the DR-280 have as much midbass punch from 80-200hz as a Titan 39? Both are utilizing a 12 inch driver(assume they are the same, deltalite 12). I know my T-39 has more than my dual stacked DR-250's.

I don't have Titans for the front stage yet. When I do I wire them as one speaker running off of one amp channel and use the DCX for crossovers, filters, and EQ. Usually it comes down to EQ because they naturally drop off where I need them to and I use so little power that I don't run into troubles. I thought maybe the crossover region would be suspect because my drivers are high excursion with no help for inductance so they drop off up high. The DR's drop off at 120hz or so as this left me a whole from 80-120hz or a dip in the response. I messed with my delay on my subs and I made them flat at the XO region but I still thought that I needed some help when at reference in this area(Titan 48 would destroy this area) but after measuring THD I am under 1% THD at 80hz, 100hz, and 200hz at reference with sine waves so there is no need for any change.

If you look at their sensitivity within this range at 80hz the DR-250 is at 100 dBs, the DR-280 is at 102 dBs and the T-48 is at 107+ dBs so I would expect more from the T-48. However if I raise my crossover on subs to 150hz then I can achieve the same thing which I will do.

I don't have enough experience with Audyssey to be honest. I know using my own manual EQ with my DCX sounds much better than using the MCACC from the elite AVR I had. Maybe it was the amps? Anyways, MCACC was not even close to being flat at the seats and when I do it I have a nice house curve. I would get any auto EQ you can tweak afterwards. Maening once you run the auto EQ maybe you can mess around with some filters to get better if needed.

No I have not. I like them the way they are and if I hear something better then rather than switching to that speaker I would try the ribbons. I mean I like these better than my speakers that are loved on here and my old favorites so to me they are at the top already.

I think so.

This was recorded with my Iphone so take the quality for what it is. This was playing at 110dBs!

http://s191.photobucket.com/user/spinefixr/media/phone482013051_zps17ac0c75.mp4.html

http://s191.photobucket.com/user/spinefixr/media/phone482013050_zps1804c3ef.mp4.html
Edited by MKtheater - 4/8/13 at 11:04am