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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: For one day only

Post Subject: Digital X-oversPosted by guy sergeant on: 3/7/2013

I wasn't involved in putting this together so perhaps one or two of those that did will chime in.

From the thread..."The source was J River playing through a Lynx AES16 soundcard. Two digital outputs to the Behringer DCX2496s, acting as digital XOs and DACs. The Behringers both had modified output stages - the nicer one was the transformer output (DAC chip out straight to transformers), used on the top three channels, while the cap output one was used for the bass and mid bass...."

So there was provision for a good deal of adjustment and measurement which was being done throughout the evening before the show. I'm sure with more time spent listening & adjusting over a few days it could have improved further but I was surprised by how well it worked as it was. I don't think it could really have been done in the allotted time without resorting to the DCX2496's or something similar.

There didn't seem to be any pronounced effects from the bay window. There's alot to learn putting a new system into an unfamiliar room. These channels hadn't been brought together previously. It would have been interesting to draw the curtains but I suspect the room would then have been too dark for the visitors on the day of the show.

EDIT: The owner of the 1428s does also own a pair of S2's. I don't think they can or should really be used for the same frequency ranges. The 1428 is arguably stronger and more comfortable playing lower than the S2 perhaps between 500Hz-1KHz but less refined (in my view) above that & certainly above 2kHz.

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