Aloha,
I've been playing with some different 'subwoofers' to see if they could integrate with the Ferguson Hill Lowther based speakers.
I tried two kinds of those flat stiff small diameter woofer cubes, but they really seemed to only add that 'one note' dimension to the sound.
Then, I went back to an old pair of Genesis 12-inch sealed box woofers (from 1993 or 1994) and got a much more sonorous result. More nuance and 'musical content.' They seemed to be able to 'keep up' with the Lowthers much better in terms of speed and remaining 'invisible,' too.
The bigger drivers are also better able to 'loaf' along - not seeming to use as much of their perceived ultimate ability - when compared to the smaller, larger excursion woofers. The Genesis seem to be performing farther away from their limitations than the other woofers did.
I realize that's not such an objective thing to say, but I do believe that 'effortlessness' is something we can hear in a system; sometimes even at levels well within the performance parameters of a piece of gear or a system. In fact, in this comparison, the larger woofers seemed to have the greatest advantage at low volume levels, adding more perceived detail and room ambience than the smaller woofers did. (And that was via pairing them with a main driver that could never presume to fully tax the abilities of either kind of woofer.)
All this made me look back, and I'm thinking I must be a large-diameter-smaller-excursion guy vs. a smaller-diameter-larger-excursion guy.
I had the wife (in whose ears I trust) take a listen and she quickly decided that she liked the larger diameter drivers, even before I really had an opinion of my own.
(If you run across any vintage Genesis 'servo 12' woofers from back in the day, I still heartily recommend them.)
Have any of you guys/gals ('gals,' as if) noticed any trend like that in your preferences for subwoofers?
Aloha,
I've been playing with some different 'subwoofers' to see if they could integrate with the Ferguson Hill Lowther based speakers.
I tried two kinds of those flat stiff small diameter woofer cubes, but they really seemed to only add that 'one note' dimension to the sound.
Then, I went back to an old pair of Genesis 12-inch sealed box woofers (from 1993 or 1994) and got a much more sonorous result. More nuance and 'musical content.' They seemed to be able to 'keep up' with the Lowthers much better in terms of speed and remaining 'invisible,' too.
The bigger drivers are also better able to 'loaf' along - not seeming to use as much of their perceived ultimate ability - when compared to the smaller, larger excursion woofers. The Genesis seem to be performing farther away from their limitations than the other woofers did.
I realize that's not such an objective thing to say, but I do believe that 'effortlessness' is something we can hear in a system; sometimes even at levels well within the performance parameters of a piece of gear or a system. In fact, in this comparison, the larger woofers seemed to have the greatest advantage at low volume levels, adding more perceived detail and room ambience than the smaller woofers did. (And that was via pairing them with a main driver that could never presume to fully tax the abilities of either kind of woofer.)
All this made me look back, and I'm thinking I must be a large-diameter-smaller-excursion guy vs. a smaller-diameter-larger-excursion guy.
I had the wife (in whose ears I trust) take a listen and she quickly decided that she liked the larger diameter drivers, even before I really had an opinion of my own.
(If you run across any vintage Genesis 'servo 12' woofers from back in the day, I still heartily recommend them.)
Have any of you guys/gals ('gals,' as if) noticed any trend like that in your preferences for subwoofers?