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In Reply to: RE: Frequency vs. Power Response posted by layman on December 02, 2014 at 07:27:57
Hi and thank for the advice
but i seriously doubt that a minimonitor can give a realistic piano even in a normal room
The problem i think is that many like myself are used to small speakers
and we do not know what we are missing ... the real thing
Of course available space is often a constraint
Kind regards,
bg
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A mini-monitor can actually give a realistic piano sound in a normal sized room but they will need (proper) boundary re-inforcement to do so.
One of my favorite record shops, Academy Music in Manhattan, has Harbeth mini-monitors sitting on a high book-shelf above the classical section. The speakers are sitting in close promimity to the ceiling. They sound superb with piano.
The (bass) re-inforcement of the ceiling boundary and the fact that the speakers are not placed equidistant from any two room boundaries helps the speakers in-room response to remain ideally flat and accurate. I hear no huge dips or peaks. Placed this way, the speakers sound faithful to the (piano) recording.
However, if you placed these same speakers on 3 foot high stands, 3 feet from the backwall and six feet from the ceiling you will get a 9 dB null at 113 Hz everywhere in the room and the piano will sound small and miniaturized.
Well this is interesting but difficult to get
and then there is the soundstage ... with speaker under the ceiling the perspective would be a little strange
A good size speaker could be easier to place in the room i guess
A speaker like the old Kef 105 is big but not impossible
or something similar size and concept
i like the head above the bass box concept a lot like in many famous speakers
Thanks for the advice
Kind regards,
bg
Stereo soundstaging is an illusion. It does not occur with live music and is not necessary to enjoy music. Moreover, the illusion does not occur in the far field or outside a single sweet spot in the room. Yet a piano can still sound like a piano in the far field. This is what other posters were describing with their next room analogy.
Your example of the large KEF speaker is an interesting one but that speaker must obey the same laws of physics that govern the behavior of the mini-monitor and the same placement rules apply.
Hi and i have another approach
Soundstage in a recording can even be created at the mixing desk i guess
But my point is another one
If there is a 3D effect, real or fake, i want to hear it
Because this means that the playback system is resolving also very fine details
It is a very good monitoring system
Of course if the piano in the recording is diffused i will hear it like it is in the recording
I have some test disks ... i know that they have depth and also layers in the depth
Not all the systems are able to give back this depth and layers
This has to do with resolving power
It is like a out of focus lens, not clean ...
I like terms like razor sharp, crystal clear ... and so on.
Then if the 3D effect is real or not is not important to me.
But i want to hear it all. And well.
Kind regards,
bg
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