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With so many KEF Architectural speaker models available, it can be challenging to navigate the options. Whether you’re building a home theater, setting up a sleek stereo system, or creating a multi-room music experience, this guide will help you understand KEF’s naming conventions and make the right choices.
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To get an idea how a port in a loudspeaker cabinet works think of blowing air across the top of a bottle. At some point, the air pressure and bottle volume combine to make a noise. That’s the Helmholtz Resonance. As the volume changes with increased or decreased liquid in the bottle the “note” you hear changes in frequency.
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Our relationship with music is a hard-wired thing. The more we indulge our link to music the more it fires up our brains. When you sit and listen to music – not in the background but as an active participant, no less than eleven sections of your brain become active, and not just active, but excited. With music, areas that help you communicate better, analyze situations better, remember things, and maintain muscle memory are all simultaneously excited.
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Guest contributor and Senior Product Training Specialist Ben Hagens shares some interesting background as to why the standard 80 Hz crossover setting for subwoofers in home theater and stereo setups may not be so valid anymore.
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Loudspeaker toe-in is a concept as old as stereo itself. Because of an unavoidable design flaw in most loudspeakers, to get the deepest, most accurate soundstage possible some measure of toe-in was necessary. This is where the equilateral triangle setup came from
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