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INDEX:
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - What is Quasar?
01:28 - It is all about timing!
02:39 - How do they perform?
03:26 - Commenters...
04:08 - No more Mixcubes or NS-10s?
04:49 - The background story of Quasar
05:13 - George's tweaked PMC setup
06:04 - Mobile Studio setup
06:38 - You can't buy Quasar..
07:33 - Questions?
08:05 - Disclosure
08:35 - Support me!
We've had some questions regarding a binaural demo; to give an accurate demo of the soundstage the replay side should have a predictable and comparable quality response. We did have succes reproducing this on a Stax headphone though.
I’m happy for you that people are so interested in your work!
It also makes me laugh that people are so determined to listen to speakers over the internet. Doesn’t really work that way 😅
Hi Wytse and Leonard. I have a question: I have electrostatic headphones for extra monitoring because of their short transient. response, (But I find it's hard to mix on them for other reasons)
I see most of your speaker is dynamic drivers of different materials? Other than the ultra high frequency?
My question is how would you compare dynamic drivers and electrostatic drivers performance and use in monitors?
Thank you!
@@kaori-3882 Thanks for this question, Tom. We're also fans of electrostatic speakers; though the SPL levels and low end extension is not what you'd want as a main system generally. The response of the Quasar system is aimed at the speed of electrostatic speakers; but it dynamically delivers like a PA system.
Are there any measurements available of these speakers? I'm particularily interested in the dispersion, Distortion vs frequency, CSD & how can I forget: frequency response.
@@lennartaudio3794 hey i would love a video explaining in detail what the concept is about. What are the six speaker for? And what is the dsp doing. How does it compare to something like big me geithain monitors?
Yes please do a video together you two geeking out would be awesome
would love to see a more dedicated video with lennart
This topic of masking is fascinating - because I experience that when I switch between my monitors, and two different headphones - and also my phone speaker - they all REVEAL some details that I could not hear before. About reverbs, vocal takes, edits, etc. You’re bang on right: an amazing studio setup would be able give you all that information at once. Obviously that’s a hard task but no doubt you can get closer to perfection!
"I can hear every vocal edit in Sandstorm" is a pretty good troll!
Yes, please bring in Lennart Audio. That would be super interesting. Thanks.
This channel is sort of a museum for weird speakers.
And most importantly... they look fabulous!
With great speakers comes great responsibility
Thanks uncle Ben.
This is true.
What a beautiful setup! Thank you for sharing and I really appreciate your transparency! You gave me something to look forward in the future studio, I've been testing numerous monitoring systems and can't wait to dive into lennart! Thanks again and super happy for you!
I know it won't sound like it does in real life, but I always want to hear the speakers play in videos like this.
The point of a second monitoring system isn't just comparison, but perspective for your ears so you are not producing in an isolated personal bubble.
The most important part for some of us is the price. Roughly, how much will this cost ?
This was a brilliant analogy of the mixing/listening conundrum and truthful too...thank you for the great information!
Hello: Yes, good speakers, in soffits (the wall), have always yielded the best results for me. I'm impressed that you don't need a set of secondary monitors. That IS confidence. I can't remember what else I was going to say, lol. This has always been a high-quality pro audio channel. You have high standards, White Sea. Please keep up the excellent work!
The speakers look rad! Love the design! I can totally imagine how exceptionally good they sound ;) Can't wait for the video where we'll finally all meet LennArt!
Thx for sharing, Like you said. The right monitoring is everything.
Thx again
Thanks for the invite to make it logistically possible… we’ll all be there shortly lol… when you hear 133,000 people knocking on the door we’ll be there lol
I would enjoy a co lab video with LennArt. I have a question about how the perfectly adjusted room/speaker will work, if the incoming source changes from maybe switching some gear in the signal chain. Is it especially calibrated to fit Your specific gear atm and which gear changes could then mess up the calibration? Could even a different Audio Interface change those curves?
I'm all down for nerding deep into speakers, the deeper the better. so yeah, go for it! :)
why not name the video " Are my new monitors snakeoil ? " :-D
I might do that later
Woah.... I want a pair of those.
I can't Believe the birth of these speakers started in a Broadcast Van/Truck.
The midrange driver is a Mark Audio, the woofer looks like a Dayton RSS390, the dome midrange is a Accuton as well as the tweeter and the other drivers on the sides looks like a Dayton ND series woofer.
yerrrrppppp
@@puresesh7985 so what does that mean? I am old...I guess you are agreeing.
@@erikkroll2154 yerp is yes and yep combined i bet you are heaps of fun
@@puresesh7985 you would be surprised.
@@erikkroll2154 ah you like to get on the beers mate
Hmm, I'm curious, also wonder about the phase characteristics...
Phase is hardly audible. You don't hear differences between sines and cosines.
It's only audible when there is a massive amount of groupdelay (which is pretty much only possible when you dont use common sense).
I'm more curious about the dispersion, time domain response and distortion.
@@hidjedewitje Cancellations could be audible, and a common source of a problem with multiple speakers. And edge diffractions are more complicated too.
@@nodaysback8390 Because you don't hear the difference between a sine and a cosine.
A phase shift is nothing more then a delay. You really don't hear a delay. It's the same as pressing the play button of a CD a second later. Even when low frequencies are delayed more than high frequencies it's hardly audible. It's only audible when there is a MASSIVE difference in delay between high frequencies and low frequencies (I just say high and low frequencies, but really I mean two arbitrarily chosen different frequency bands). This is exactly what the group delay shows us. It's the change of phase with respect to frequency.
Phase cancelation (canceling of waves because they come from different sources such as different drivers and diffraction) can be audible, but in that case we don't hear a difference between phase. We then hear the change in frequency response!
After all, two drivers can be in phase, but if the tweeter is delayed 360 degrees in phase shift, you won't see a difference in amplitude or folded phase response, but the group delay is definitely there. This is also why phase response is pretty hard to really mess up, because you need to intentionally put n*360 degrees of phase shift on a driver.
The phase cancelation issues will show up in other measurements such as frequency response of each driver and sum of total system (poor allignment will show poor summation at crossover frequency). Another measurement will be the dispersion. If the magnitude of the signal at crossover doesn't peak on-axis, then the drivers are not properly alligned. I do think those parameters are important (as mentioned in my previous comment).
Fun fact, bass reflect ports and passive radiators delay bass frequencies even more than sealed systems. Yet nobody cares about that. Those systems also have a lot more problems that sealed systems don't have (secondary port resonance, ringing issues in time domain which are unavoidable, non-linear distortion due to compression in port or saturation of the PR). For some reason those ports and PR's are wildly popular.
@@nodaysback8390 yes, and that only occurs when you use 2 or more sources. You can use super position (assuming reasonable linearity) to find the effect of 2 sines combined.
You will find that the sines add up perfectly when in phase: sine + sine = 2sine. As they move farther away from eachother they add up less perfectly and will eventually cancel (sine-sine=0 as you said).
However that's not what the phase response tells you. The phase response tells you that if you input a certain tone, it gets delayed by X degrees. This means that if I the phase response is 0.5 pi degrees at 2pi Hz, the output of a 2pi sine is sine(x+0.5pi).
The phase response itself doesnt tell anything about cancellation of drivers or whatsoever. It is merely the delay between input signal and output signal.
This thread is super informative for audio geeks, and it’s a great example of why talking things out and keeping an open mind is a best practice.
A question for @Hidde … I use a plug-in called Dr MS by Mathew Lane on my 2-bus. It has channel-specific (L-R or Mid-Side) delay in ms which can also be applied to a channel thru low pass or hi pass. Could this processing correct any of the phase anomalies caused by delayed signals you described in a post above? Or…is the issue you described more of a hardware and room issue?
I'd be interested in learning how they addressed phase alignment with these monitors. It doesn't seem like the drivers are physically time aligned, so are they using dsp to compensate?
Also, for the subwoofer, how are they overcoming the inertia? Does it use a feedback loop like a servo controlled woofer? Would love to learn more about these speakers.
You can do phase alignment with well designed analog all pass too. But yeah that is an interesting question. For the woofer dampening, maybe an impedance feedblack loop. I'am wondering if there is any time treatment for the six mid range drivers, because that should be a comb filtering nightmare.
@@PopeOfDope22 Something like an active analog crossover would be very cool. 6 drivers definitely can cause comb filtering, but I guess it really depends on what frequency range they are being used at. I've even seem design where they only send higher frequencies to the middle drivers to mitigate some comb filtering/phase issues. Hopefully the designers does a follow up and sheds some light on what's really going on
@@PopeOfDope22 yes, you can phase align with all passes, but you get a bad phase response and bad group delay, that's the masking he was talking about i think. there is no way around a dsp time compensation when the speakers are flush mounted.
I did see a Biamp DSP in a previous video during install, and that’s probably where corrections and adjustments were made. I use Biamp systems in commercial AV and personally in my studio as a monitor controller only. I am curious about the role the Biamp plays in this speaker system, although I’m sure the details are proprietary.
Those are interesting loudspeakers/monitors, mainly because the driver setup is against what is known to work properly. 😊
I’m not suggesting that they’re not amazing, because I’m confident that they must be.
But an “unbiased” opinion is very hard (if not impossible) for any human. 😉 It don’t mean it in a negative way, but we all have our own bias on almost everything, be it the food that we like the most, or what sounds best for each one of us (starting with our favorite music styles, or even recordings that we consider as all-time references).
I love your videos and the way you present things, so don’t get me wrong.
The whole subject of monitors/loudspeakers is something that fascinates me for decades, which also makes it interesting to see what loudspeakers were used to mix and master many reference recordings (some which have been used for decades to show of audio equipment), and the monitors/loudspeakers used are very (and I mean very) different along these recordings, and we still have to introduce the “room factor”.
While no audio engineer can adjust something that the loudspeakers aren’t reproducing, the human ear (or should I say the brain) is able to compensate up to a certain point, and cross referencing on other loudspeakers/rooms has always been a part of it.
I would love to see a more in depth explanation of this loudspeaker, and the principles behind this particular project.
What really impresses me in the video is the OS version of the mac os that you can notice at 5:48. Love it! :)
really cool stuff, i rly wanted help on this topic. thx bro!
so when you sit down in front of the desk, the desk is covering 5 of the speakers on each monitor is that I clever idea?
The desk isn’t covering anything
Bring Lennart to the White Sea Studio channel.
I will
ok when can i come over ? We are on Texel every year in November/December anyway. That would probably be on the way. So I'll see you in November.....🤣😂
I really want two monitoring setups. One blurry and one precise. Both with flat frequency domain responses. I just have a feeling that it's a good idea...
Must say after watching this, I dont know what it was about. Yes you got new speakers, congratulation maaan
Have you checked Any FTB room by northward acoustics and compared to your current setup?
For sure go live man. Love it
Beautiful snake oil speakers! just kidding, amazing stuff !!!!!
Can you explain why ppl say and i see on covers a other person mixing for vinyl then digital or Cd? Are they not the same music?
Do you have a video recommending monitors for us to get, that are available.
Are you still using Sonar Works SoundID Reference for those speakers or are u using them uncalibrated?
Quasar is tuned to the engineer. That is one of the things I didn’t mention in my video, but the calibration is made together with the engineer that is going to use them. By matching the calibration to the engineer, the translation gets even better 😊
Just use a ORTF setup at your listening position and we'll get a pretty good picture of how those sound like
I would be interested to see what the general crossover matrix and timing compensation for these looks like
You can't see sound... 🤨
@@godsbeautifulflatearth Unfortunately I’m not in a position to hear the speakers either! I’d argue you never want to “hear” a crossover or any type of phase or timing compensation. It should just sound like one clear speaker.
I see there also metal and ceramic cones!! They are light and stiff, so perfect for mid and high frequenciesy but i would like to know how the virtual stage is with those spekers
How much did you pay for this Monitor System? What's the Price for?
These would be great in my untreated basement set up.
I like the name of the company
Yours too! :)
They look fabulous! Massive, majestic and... I don't know, I feel kinda like in some black magic temple, or pushed to the ground by some technotronic monster. Lovely! I'm very interested!
those look like they are so freaking loud! what are we looking at 20,000 euro?
Hi guys, well. I'm starting my bedroom studio and I'm about to do DIY acoustic treatment. I have a pair of Presonus Eris 3.5 monitors. My question is, how to get the most out of those lil drivers? How close to the them and the wall can I place them and is it necessary to by a sub or can I do fine with my headphones and a room sim?
What is the dsp, crossovers, are used in the system ?
? Your desk seems to be in the way of all the sound hitting you is the best possible way. Did the speaker builder advise you on desk design, or schooled you about it later.
Yes, he was involved, the shape of the desk is from the Neumann console, which is acoustically neutral…
They are made of pure unobtainium...
Did you know that the color of your shirt also affects the sound quality?
its the most important factor ;)))
I would've liked to hear a bit more regarding the positioning of the sub on top.
That’s awesome!!!
I wonder how this compares to the results one may achieve with a Trinnov system?
How loud do you monitor at?
i imagine you use either 6db crossovers or higher order crossovers with phase linearization, and delay compensation for the mid and sub drivers for a clean step/phase response? are those accuton tweeters?
I would love to hear about the processing. What DSP is used what amplifier? And how where they measured to perform best?
How much is the cost?
how is the phase response at the sweetspot?, FIR? if yes, how much delay? 🖖
NIIICE,ALWAYS WHATCHING FROM KENYA
Wyte’s I have an important question which I hope you can answer.
Is it possible to work in the project sample rate of 44khz but have specific desired channels to be a higher sample rate? Like 96khz
Because pitch correction works better at a higher sample rate. So instead turning the whole project to 96khz I want to be able to just record one track at 96khz. And I don’t want to convert it from a lower sample rate to a higher one I want to record it on the way in at the highest possible rate to affect it.
I wish it was possible…
I love your stuff
Very funny when you told him to clap his hands and he dissapeared
2:48 You could run REW and show us the result.
i wanna know more about the impedance converter being used on the amplifier output
It’s about power, we stay hungry, we devour
How much was the total cost of this monitoring setup? Would like to know simply to see what sort of budget they could fit
Its all highly custom, but it’s definitely 5 figure territory. If you want more accurate info, contact Lennart via lennart.audio
@@Whiteseastudio Honestly with the guidance you placement help you get, I was expecting 10K
@@Ardeact wow, me too… I mean I was thinking more… I was thinking the 40k mark… wow, it’s a defo fit for the budget
@@TheSakuraGumiLTD not saying 5k is cheap but 5k just to beat world class studios in audio accuracy, in which their studios are multi driver orchastras. Seems unreal
@@TheSakuraGumiLTD Isn't 5 figures - 10,000 to 99,999 ?!
ex machina gone be pretty mad about this name
My question is why does your meter bridge on your desk look like it goes higher than the bottom row of drivers? Seems like a lot of the output from that bottom row is going to bounce off the back of the desk and reflect all over the place instead of going to your ears. It also looks like your left/right imaging is going to be a little bit off as one side of your meter bridge is open while the other side is blocked and with that bottom row of drivers at that low of a position..... I think you completely miss the point of a secondary monitoring system these days, its to give you a representation of how it sounds on a system that doesn't tell the truth such as crappy headphones, bad car system, etc. If the speakers you have are as accurate as you say your totally missing the stuff that gets lost when the mix is played back on a sub optimal system.
Nice scratch on the surface…. Wish this would go a little deeper. Expected more details from this. ✌🏻
I will, later 😊
@@Whiteseastudio awesome 😎 👏🏻
Why is the speaker cap dented?
And what about your own hearing, do you get regular hearing tests?
I once fell hard on my head so i have scarring on my eardrum, , can't hear a lot above 7000hz with that ear.
They are not dented, that how they are supposed to look.
I do test my hearing regurlary
What is you'r opinion about Genelec 8040?
I'm sitting here being jealous about how good Sandstorm by Darude can sound on that setup =)
At the same time I understand that with my small untreated room I can only rely on a near field monitoring. This involves relatively small 2-way speakers. And I think that I'll benefit from less crossover points and less drivers, as the distance is too close for the waves to combine in my case. In addition, I do own a mobile dj setup with couple of Yamaha S115V and couple 15'' subs, but there's not enough space for them to sound well in my rurrent room - they are just being used for other scenarios.
Anyways, that huge system is something that requires a well-treated room to fit. It's such an overpowered thing for me right now. But that's really impressive!
Yeah, if your room is untreated, its best to invest in that first…
It's time for a bigger room.. 😐
3:31 Too nice saturation, i want to know how you did it!
Isn’t that silver speaker already dented in the middle? It looks like that. Just saying...
Its not a dent
17 million views, you must have mixed some amazing sounding and selling records. Can you give us a list of some we can use as a reference?
Great question.
17 million views???
Whiteseastudio.com/listen will soon be updated
@@Whiteseastudio Great! I have also been ready to hear some tunes. Thank you
@@Whiteseastudio style wise only a few are for me, quality wise, I would say they all sound good. Very nice man :)
Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please make a video with LennArt Please
What about using a Trinnov system though? I'm not an expert in this stuff but I understand Trinnov also fix problems with phase response etc. I get that a system designed from the ground up and custom installed will always be better, but otherwise what are the inherent advantages of this approach over Trinnov?
If you want to precisely address the timing of a multiway speaker you can (in my opinion) best compensate each way individually; since you'll otherwise compromise especially in the overlapping regions of the crossovers.
are they better than Bose Soundwave?
Yes
No never, cause Bose is best, they can even bend physics 😂😂
@@uwebaganz5144 I knew it!
Is anyone here a White Sea patreon reading this? I'm afraid that I don't receive notifications anymore, when a new video on his patreon becomes available... maybe my emails fault, but would be nice to know if anyone else observed the same thing...
Love that intro music, did you do the mixdown on it?
I only did a few touches
graag een produkt video over deze luidsprekers!
please invite Lennart!!!
Doesnt the desk and angle get in the way? I just recently realized that the sweet spot for my monitors is about 20 cm lower than my head. I'm going to put them up, because the clarity is just totally different there...
The shape of the desk is designed in such a way that it interferes as minimum as possible...
Do you have ATCs? The reference angle of those is 5-degrees below the midrange main axis.
@@larstofastrud1788 I have Genelecs 8040As. Only noticed the other day when I was reaching down to get a dropped pen. Maybe 10% clearer a bit further down.
oh - and sorry : yours look just like serious business !!! I literally can hear the fast response just looking at them ,-)
I can cut my hair with the snares now 😂
I could be wrong, but it looks a little like the dust cap on the centre bottom driver has a dent (might just be glare). Do you have a cat? Small dents are pretty easy to remove with a little suction, I use a McDonald's straw personally and just gently pull them out that way. With bigger dustcaps it can be possible to use a vacuum cleaner IF it has a vent in the intake tube to reduce the pressure. DO NOT use full force vacuum or you risk pulling the dust cap off, depending on how good the glue is. Dust caps are aesthetic, a few little dents do not affect the sound, I just don't like seeing them.
It's not dented, this is how they are supposed to look 😅
@@Whiteseastudio Ah ok. I wasn't sure.
Still don’t get it how it works with the expensive RME converter and the speaker correction. Only makes sense if the speaker correction is analog I would think.
Yeah, I thought the same, but for some reason, it is (measurably) better with the RME in between… I’m also not the only one that discovered this weirdness…
@@Whiteseastudio Ok, so the speaker management is DSP and double conversion sounds- and measures better then going digitally to the speaker management? Who would have thought!
Have you compared them to ATCs or ExMachina Quasars ?
I did compare them with (modified) ATC's... I did install Quasar 😅
@@Whiteseastudio ATCs Modded by?
Wonder what those ATC soft dome mid range drivers would sound like on your monitors
I missed what happened to the Dutch n Dutch?!! I thought those were already darn good, no? You sell them? Congrats by the way!
They where review units that I had to return. When I reviewed the Dutch and Dutch I was already in the buying process of Quasar. Also, Quasar has the headroom that D&D was lacking in my studio…
Is that a 5 -way speaker or 4? Im really curious about its crossover points
It is a 5 way setup indeed, I don’t know the crossover points 😅
Crossover points are 80hz, 200hz,1200hz and 5000hz.
.....unless we considere this: how can some of us could just found at least 8.000 dollars for only the pulsar monitors, when your complete setup reaches 1500? We all know that a good setup is a good mix, but when you just don't have the cash, you're doing it with the means at hands. And this means too that even if you have good ears, you can't reach your best because of a lack of budget.
At what volume do you work on these speakers? I'd imagine they could blow you away like Marty McFly at the start of that famous movie... 😉
They are already very precise on low volume, but they can indeed do the Marty McFly scene 😂
Holy Cow!
How much?? How do I get some!!
Contact Lennart, lennart.audio
Looks like Magic Alex built them 🙂
Soooooo…
How much were they? 🤔🤔🤔
Enough 😅
These are my speakers, you probably can't afford them, you probably can never get them, they are the best, I have them, you don't :)
Damn, took me 8 minutes to say that 😂
wow, literally pretty much nothing was said about the speakers