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Old 11th November 2009   #10
Etch-A-Sketch
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have you looked into Dynaudio?

Also, the ADAMs speakers tend to get ugly in the bottom end. The tweeter is great, but the porting in the cabinet facing forward distorts the low end. A Sine Wave at 80Hz can turn into a saw wave. I had a pair for evaluation for about a week. Noticed the distortion on the bottom end on just about every style of music, including the orchestral trailer stuff I was doing. All the low drones sounded distorted and "farty" for lack of a better word. It was extremely annoying. I eventually brought them back and got another pair thinking there was something wrong... still the same problem. It has to do with the bass porting. Sending sine wave sweeps through it helped me identify that it was the port. Really focus on the bottom end, bring in some stuff with low freq drones in it and listen intently to what happens. Maybe they've changed the porting since I tested them out to combat this, I don't know? But when I checked them out a few years ago they were useless for just about everything I was doing.
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