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Radiation behaviour and personal preferences

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In Reply to: RE: Orchestral-sized events are the worst "live reference" posted by KlausR. on October 24, 2010 at 06:01:36

The way I see it, different types of loudspeakers specialize in different types of radiation patterns and they exist in order to cater to the personalized preferences of different types of listeners. There may be loudspeaker designs that qualify as "best overall", but the "jack of all trades, master of none" ideal may not appeal to everyone. Different types of loudspeakers seem to capture the radiation patterns, dynamics, and timbres of certain types of instruments better than other loudspeakers do. If you like to listen to those types of instruments then you are free to specialize. And of course, certain loudspeaker designs are more expensive to produce than others are. Your choice of "favorite loudspeaker" might depend on what you consider to be objective criteria or it might depend on the kind of music you like to listen to... and, how much you want to pay! More expensive loudspeakers are definitely required if we want the deepest and most accurate bass, regardless of the topology. But I think many of us (consciously or unconsciously) accept the fact that as we optimize our systems for certain aspects of playback (or even for "best overall" level of playback), we simultaneously sacrifice playback capabilities in certain ways.

Edits: 10/24/10

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