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RE: Because it is NOT valuable musical information

1. I can't read every post the day it is posted. I actually have a life outside of this asylum, and a real job where they expect me to produce minor miracles about every other week.

2. As I said, I have tried every trick in the book to get sound quality out of the cheapest speakers in the universe, all the way up to SOTA efforts using ribbon drivers and dual voice coil neodymium woofers.
I have heard and measured what this does, and it isn't a neutral sound, but a colored sound.

3. The greater volume you speak of only occurs in the midrange and to a more limited extent, the HF's. The size of the panels is insufficient to support LF's, and the fact that they are not contiguous with the speaker boxes, means that the coupling is only partial, thus spotty and haphazard with respect to frequency.

So there is a boost to certain of the mid-frequencies, and a response that is comb filtered in the upper ranges as well, and this, as I said before can sound "exciting" and "forward" and "present". More is not necessarily better, nor is louder.

As for the added energy avoiding detectable frequency-cancellation, that is the rub, it IS hard to detect the comb-filtering and hear it as other than an added presence or false "detail" to the music. But also as I said, time will tell, and if it does not become fatiguing, or wear thin over time, then your speakers, in that room, with that gear, had a serious lack of mid-range energy to begin with, and this particular band-aid will still only go so far.

As I said, some folks will like it, you obviously do NOW.
Whether you, or anyone else will a year from now, is another story.


Jon Risch

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