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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

You might be a simple-minded idiot...

when it comes to high energy sub-atomic particle physics (or you might not), but your thoughts on different speakers sounding different and still being desirable are correct.

As a musician, I get where you're coming from. It's very true that different speakers are 'voiced' to sound good with different kinds of music, just as different performance venues are. Think of placing a string quartet in a 2,300 seat concert hall, versus placing them in a 100 seat recital hall. Further, not only the size of the hall, but also the reverberation characteristics, makes some halls more or less desirable for various types of music. Baroque music with lots of counterpoint and fast/delicate notes tends to sound better in a more dry hall, so as not to obscure the detail, whereas the larger symphonic music of the Romantic period tends to sound better in a more live hall, to enhance the dynamics of the music.

Similarly, speakers bring their own characteristics to various types of music.

:)


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