Stacking Advents....
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Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
Sure mix and match lots of folks do.
Keldog
Active Member
grillebilly
Empty Head
The /1's are 6 ohm. It's a good practice to match impedance on both pairs, unless you have some serious amps that will take a 2 ohm load.
Wiring also comes into play
https://www.hometoys.com/article/2002/06/series--parallel-speaker-wiring/1775/
Wiring also comes into play
https://www.hometoys.com/article/2002/06/series--parallel-speaker-wiring/1775/
RTally
Speaker addict
It all depends on what you hope to accomplish by stacking.
If you want to fill a room with sound for casual listening, you can stack any speakers. Sometimes stacking sounds better, sometimes not. In my office I sometimes stack because that way I can have a set of tweeters at ear level when sitting and another set at ear level when stand or walking around.
If you are into critical listening and sit in the sweet spot, stacking will typically result in lesser SQ because you are introducing comb filtering and such.
If you want to fill a room with sound for casual listening, you can stack any speakers. Sometimes stacking sounds better, sometimes not. In my office I sometimes stack because that way I can have a set of tweeters at ear level when sitting and another set at ear level when stand or walking around.
If you are into critical listening and sit in the sweet spot, stacking will typically result in lesser SQ because you are introducing comb filtering and such.
Keldog
Active Member
I understand your set up and why, but I thought the standard practice was to invert the top pair? Aren't the tweeters closer together that way?
RTally
Speaker addict
Again, it depends on what you hope to accomplish. If you are listening from one general location, you want all the tweeters at ear level. Then you would invert the top speaker so the tweeters are closer together.
When it comes to stacking, there is no one way. It is best to experiment to see what configuration gives the best sound.
Yes you can mix and match. Sometimes the mix of two different speakers makes up for the individual shorcomings of each individual speaker. Advents were the first speakers I ever heard stacked, but you can stack damn near anything you please.
Possibly. OTOH the argument could be made that you lower distortion levels due to the fact that there are lower amounts of excursion for each driver for an overall volume level.
I've always inverted the top pair for that reason.
Keldog
Active Member
So, basically, in a 12x10 man cave, negligible...
Seems stacking doesn't really improve anything.
RTally
Speaker addict
That would be true for your particular situation if you have tried stacking and found it to be the same as a single pair. Others may disagree with you based on their experiences.
Really, the answer to stacking depends upon your personal preference. There is no one best speaker. There is no one best way to listen to music. Experiment to determine what you like and enjoy it.
Try it and see. Assuming you already own the equipment, nothing to lose by trying.
Keldog
Active Member
L100 Centurys on top of Pioneer CS-88As it is.....I'm not carrying anything else from the basement to the second floor...
This stacking business seems way more trouble than it's worth. Hard to hear a difference over my rapid heartbeat and labored breathing.
If I can stack Allison 2 on top of Allison 1, then you can stack those JBLs on top of the Pioneers. NO COMPLAINING....
teal'c
Nuclear Cardiac Parent
It was a selling point for the Advents. They wanted you to do it. Instead of a more expensive set of speakers, two pairs of stacked Advents were their high end line.
XplicitActs
Super Member
Like the working TV on top of the larger wooden cabinet non-working TV method?
sounds like my dad.
yesshows77
Well-Known Member
Stacking reasonably priced vintage bookshelf speakers is a good way to get great sound on a budget. You can mix and match whatever, just keep an eye on the overall impedance load you will have the amplifier driving as most amps don't like low impedance loads when you crank them up. I have stacked NLA's and love them, along with stacked Polk Monitors, Boston Acoustics A series and Grafyx SP series speakers. One thing I have noticed is that 2-way systems seem to fair better than 3-ways in this configuration. Looking to add an ADS L620/L520 stack next.
yesshows77
Well-Known Member
I should try my EPI M50's stacked above my EPI 180's sometime. Currently, I have a pair of Magnat All Ribbon 4's stacked above the 180's and this Frankenstein combo is simply glorious together. Others have commented that I should just bolt them together as they sound so good together, they should never be separated.
