Audio Speakers Stand

I have two infinity floor standing speakers, each has an 8" low range driver. Im curious why the sound, both spl and range, are much like that of my JL 12" w6v2 subwoofer in my car. Ok maybe not spl, ive never experienced my sub putting out more than 1/2 power. They are so different, the 12" being massive, both by competent companies. Why is it that from appearance they are so different, yet in sound they are so much the same?

Essentially, the larger the speaker, the more efficient it is.

A small 4" speaker when fed with a 100Hz tone will sound very much quieter then a 8" or 12", because the bigger speakers cones can vibrate more air particles then the smaller 4" or so speaker can.

Also, bear in mind that the car sub is designed as a sub, most likely with a tuned and ported box, to make the sub box's resonate frequency somewhere in the middle of the bass frequencies - say 60-100Hz or so - making them most efficient(read: loud) at those low bass frequencies, plus car subs are normally driven harder then house subs, to produce more thumping bass from a relatively small sub box.

Your house speakers are more wide-band, in that they tend to try to emphasize all frequencies - bass, vocals and treble.

They get good sound, but require a larger volume box to produce the goods across the whole audio spectrum.

House speakers too are built with the woofer as the top priority, 2nd the midrange speaker, and last is the tweeter.

This is why most modern bookshelf-type stereo speakers(without a separate sub), lack bass, yet some big floor-standing speakers sound great due to the bigger box volume.

Sub boxes only need to work with bass frequencies, and pretty much flatten out any vocals and high-frequencies are almost undetectable to the ear in these boxes.

It's all to do with acoustic tuning of the speaker in question, to the box it is in.
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2008-01-05 21:03:56 by Clive C

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2006-05-10 18:20:00 by Rob

3 Mounting Options
Height Adjustable 28-43"
Matte Black Finish
Solid Construction
For Back hole mounting speakers up to 4 lbs.

I'm trying to find speaker stands for a pair of Polk Audio TSi100 Bookshelf Speakers. The dimensions are 11" H x 7" W x 10-1/5" D.
http://www.polkaudio.com/homeaudio/tsi/i ndex.php?s=tsi100#tsi100

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2009-04-19 20:42:17 by mig-2107

Price: $51.99 $39.84

Textured black satin finish
Perfect for mini or rear surround speakers
Wire can be run inside the pole for a better appearance
Height is adjustable from 26-1/2" to 47-1/2"

Speaker connection help

the bottom ones...i just bought the same 1's...the GREAT speakers,enjoy!!!!!

2009-02-09 18:22:00 by JL

Recently, my HP LCD monitor with speakers of two years died on me. I had to switch to another monitor, one without speakers forcing me to use 10 year old Polk audio pc speakers in my 3.0 ghz, 3000 mhz HP custom pc that is running Vista.

They work, but the sound isn't loud enough. I went into all of the various boxes and moved everything to 100%, but still the sound is barely above mute. The only way one can hear is to stay quiet. It sounds like it is dialed at 15% instead of 100%. I feel that it is some sort of crazy Vista problem. I want to know does anyone have any tips on this? Thank you all in advance.

You would be best served to do some troubleshooting. Use an IPOD or another device to feed the speakers. Is the volume normal? If so the issue is indeed within the PC. If not, the speakers themselves have an issue.

2009-08-16 19:33:42 by mlynnej