SR wrote:
It's amazing when adding good speakers to an ordinary radio how the
radio sounds.
I do not know much about speakers, but I would like to improve the sound
of my radio throughout my small apartment.
I guess I would like to have stereo speakers (about 4 speakers) though
out my small apartment, so that when I get up from my desk area and go
to the kitchen area, I have a speaker there. This way I do not have to
bring up the volume on one end to hear it in another part of the
apartment. I do not want to make the volume too loud on any end.
Here are other features I am looking for:
First, understanding the different type of speakers. I prefer a full
sound, high, mid & deep. Not too loudly, just full. And not too big of
a speaker. I prefer wood over plastic. Flat top.
A device that has a tone button, to bring down static from DX stations.
(Because not all radios will come with a tone button). And that the
device also has a headphone hole.
Also that if the device is electrical, I could shut it off and the
speaker line is still running.
Filters: An external filter to help cut out unwanted noise.
Speaker selector, so that I could choose which speakers I want on and
how loudly.
Radio selector, I may want to use two radios for this setup.
The radios I have in mind to use is the Grundig Satellite 800 and maybe
the Tivoli model 2.
This is all to use for news and music.
What is a tweeter?
What is surround sound?
Why do some speaker have 2 or 3 smaller speakers in it?
What is a speaker with a horn?
Thank you all, 73, SR!
A tweeter is a small speaker especially designed to reproduce high
frequencies. "Surround sound" is a (usually) five speaker array most
often connected with home theater systems.
Some speakers cover their frequency range with two speakers, a
woofer and a tweeter (bass and treble), some use three, the
intermnediate speaker being called a "squawker". The number of speakers
in the cabinet has no bearing on the quality of the speaker system, or
it's accuracy - it's just two different ways of doing the same thing.
A horn speaker uses a flared horn to reproduce high frequencies. The
highs through a horn speaker tend to be very intense.
Either the Tivoli or the Grundig may give you pretty good results with
good speakers, for FM music. But for AM or shortwave, true "high
fidelity" speakers are five times better than the signal going through
them. A thirty-dollar "rectangular box" with, say a 6" woofer and a
cone tweeter will get everything out of a shortwave or medium wave
signal that is in there.
Also consider, as you add speakers, the ohm load presented to the
amplifier in the radio generally goes down - making the output phase
work harder - a lot harder, depending on the way you wire them up. If
you are thinking of connecting either the Tivoli or the Grundig to four
speakers, you may run into problems - talk to an audio electronics
expert, if you can (NOT the high school kid on duty at Best Buy).
Tony
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