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In Reply to: RE: I like "intriguing" better than "surprising" posted by Ladok on August 18, 2015 at 11:57:24
And the second most important is whether the amp is well-suited to driving the speaker in terms of its electrical load and back EMF.
I don't think that there is any question that having flat measured frequency response is one desirable characteristic for loudspeaker performance. But it is not the only one. The character of the dispersion is important, and the presence or absence of distortion is important.
I think that it is a respectable position (I did not say it is the majority position) that phase coherence in the crossover region is so important that if in order to maximize that in a particular design at a given price point, flatness of frequency response might have to give way.
I have heard at least one loudspeaker that claimed to measure flat anechoically that could be problematic in real-world rooms, with the result that the speaker was tri-amped with active crossovers... which I am sure were meant to be used.
I am not a loudspeaker designer. However, I think that I have a fair amount of experience as a listener, and some of my recordings have found favor. I wish that I could say that the sum total of all the wisdom I have gained since 1966 or so could be expressed as: "Buy a loudspeaker with the flattest quasi-anechoic measurements you can find, and live with it and be happy regardless of what your room is like," but that is not the case.
Which is why I am a big fan of room treatments, which I last dealt with at the attached link.
ATB,
JM
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Those diffusors make me dizzy ............ yeow
I really like those concentric circle diffusors. Maybe for the next project, I'll be spending a LOT of quality time with my router!
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