In Reply to: The future Loudspeaker from an IT perspective posted by Ze'ev on July 2, 2014 at 09:01:28:
"With this in mind, most speaker designers incorrectly argue that time accuracy is never necessary in a loudspeaker. They are simply not aware that time accuracy is vital when the ear is working in the time domain. Their expertise lies in making coffins for monkeys."
Really?
"One of the few transducers that exhibits a good step response – and consequent realistic reproduction of percussion – is the electrostatic loudspeaker. Unfortunately, for good performance, these must be large and sited well away from walls and this is not appropriate for many domestic circumstances."
Well, I will agree with him on this. :)
"I think it is interesting to contrast the small IT device with considerably larger audiophile speaker systems. IT devices generally make a clean job of the bandwidth that can be realised by filtering out the frequencies that cannot be reproduced to avoid distortion.'
Huh? So, if we cannot accurately reproduce the top and bottom octaves with a small device, let's just filter 'em out. Yep, that'll work to create a lifelike image!
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Follow Ups
- More like Cousin It - E-Stat 13:38:10 07/02/14 (1)
- heh, heh... as Walter Chrysler said, "There is NO replacement for displacement"~nT - Cleantimestream 12:27:34 07/05/14 (0)