Comments on Profile Post by Ardacer

Nah man, I would stick with a 2.1 awesome sauce setup. Quite a few years ago I got a 5.1 Mirage nanosat package. My 2 DIY Helium-like monitors trashed that systems in pretty much every department. Not even funny.

In fact, while measuring my micro-monitors I was getting shit response and sound... I looked all over the construction to see WTF went wrong. They did not sound like that. Even with tone sweeps sounded all kinds of wrong. Only to find out that I was sending the signals to the nanosats. That opened my eyes at just how fucked up they were. Those Mirage came out highly recommended right out of Steve Guthenberg's ass.

Even imaging? For gaming and vids? Sounds from behind you and stuff?

Yup. Even that. A micro-monitor has a pretty wide sweet spot and is able to give you great 3-D. On the other hand I can understand if you have 7.1 content and you want that experience. Any speakers you have in mind?

I meant something like a 7.1 made from 7 rokit 5's and 4's and 2 thor subs. I already have 4 rokits. Alternative is to forget all about it and sell them off once lx521 comes in. Oh an btw I really like your mini speakers :)

You know, 7 of these https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/z/OqAAAOSwPh5ZIuyF/$_86.JPG
Something like that, with 2 subs. Luckily I have the space for all that shit, even if it's not optimal with an unluck room geometry.

Oh shit you have no idea! They kick ass! I've been running them w/o a sub using my Yamaha receiver in "direct" mode and they are awesome even in such a constrained room. I've been throwing everything at them and they handle things like a boss. No equalization. No nothing.

Brought my work car pool buddy for a song, and we listened to Metallica One. Dude went wide eyed.

Not much of a Rockit fan here BTW.

I don't doubt it at all, I've been eyeing up exactly the same drivers that you used for a long time, in as small box as possible, basically the same thing you did right down to driver choice. Dayton makes really nice stuff

I don't like them either tbh. Sound really weird. My diy speakers trash them too, not even funny, as you said. But, they are plentiful used around here, relatively cheap. For noncritical listening, I think they work ok.

I'll update the build info. The enclosure I built is bigger than the Helium which uses the Part-Express flat pack. I found this to be better for optimal results. But it's a lot more work to design and build one's own flat packs. It still ridiculously small though. I've also been eyeing a tower ND140-4 + TD20F-4 2-way tower that should dispense of the need of a sub-woofer. We'll see. Amazing what the ND line can do.

To put things into perspective. I used to jizz at the mention of ScanSpeak. But I'm jizzing more at the mention of the Dayton ND line these days.

Anyhow. Off the shelf, the affordable Energy Take 5 remains IMO a great value and recommendation... relative to what is available COTS.

These skinny magnet dayton mid subs are very interesting, though at 4mm xmax, I don't think you'll push them down very much. I've got similarly specced drivers (wf132tu01), expect something around down to 60 hz useable.

That is, in the linear range. They have peak xmax of 20mm, but It's outside of their most linear zone. Might work though and they are quite cheap which is great :D

Multi ch setup will only make sense when you have the recording in multi channel with the interface to spread it all out. And that means n-times all the quality stuff to be scaled up from 2-ch. Theoretically, should sound better. In practice I have never felt it.

I want to hear dragon /spaceship /dragonspaceship flying over my head
Well whatever I'll probably build 7 small ultrabike style speakers myself then use those and sell my krks.

I'm a huge fan of surround for movies and casual gaming. When it comes to competitive multiplayer games, where you need those sound cues to be precise, headphones are much better IMO.

I've got things covered in the headphones department :)
This is just for movies(sometimes) and casual gaming.