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RE: Harbeth?

Posted by RGA (R) on May 17, 2015 at 17:54:09

In Reply to: RE: Harbeth? posted by jhrlrd on May 14, 2015 at 09:07:07:

They don't need the corner for bass - they still have a tuned port of 29hz which is still considerable. Indeed, the AN J here in Hong Kong's AN dealership was playing the speakers away from corners and playing Noisia's "Split the Atom" to feel it in the chest bass levels and nowhere near as loud as they can go.

Back in 2001 the J's were pitted in a blind level matched session at Hi-Fi Choice. The speaker destroyed all the other standmounts (yup even the sexy looking it comes from a computer loudspeakers) - so bad was the drubbing that they pulled the J out and put it into their tests against floorstanders - and it STILL beat them in bass. Their testing room has no corners! The corner actually assists more with reducing the wide baffle effect to reduce colouration (but most North American walls are plaster which doesn't exactly fix the problem). This is why I feel they are better suited to concrete or brick walls than wood. But even at 70% they sound better than most at 100%

PS: Loudspeakers aren't asked to move at 160mph into corners or worry about wind hurting the gas mileage.

PS2: Corner reinforcement is a well established way to design loudspeakers.

PS3: Dragon Age Inquisition is a pretty good game.

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