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In Reply to: RE: Speakers with lowest THD posted by eyedrop on September 04, 2016 at 21:32:59
I couldn't choose a speaker based on one measurement. Listen and choose. I respect the idea that you want that measurement low. My experience
is only a few manufacturers state that spec anyway.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
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What are the waterfall graphs use for?
And what percentage of speakers have those provided? Less than 10% for sure. Those are for measuring room acoustics.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
I think Seas used to make that available with their raw drivers. I remember "reading", because I honestly have no idea what I'm really looking at, about the Seas ER18RNX. People were impressed with it's performance.I have them in my speaker and I do like them A LOT!
I'm sure there are a lot of graphs speaker companies would prefer you never saw. That's why I like building Zaphs kits. He tries.
Thanks for clearing that up
Edits: 09/07/16
When I started in this interesting hobby of ours I was heavily interested in the measured results and bought almost entirely based on those results. It wasn't until I auditioned stuff pseudo blind that I found much better sound from much worse measurements. When I auditioned a big huge massive silver amplifier that I thought was a 500 watt SS beastie which turned out to be an 8 watt SET.
Then when you see the measuring done by the industry that seem to take great pains to make certain designs look good on paper like measuring SS amps at near full level where they perform best but not measuring at ten thousandth of a a watt where they perform crappy. And since most listening most of the time is well under 1/2 of a watt it might be useful to see the measurement where most of the music is mostly played most of the time - not a peak transient at full level where the ear is shoddy at determining quality anyway. Or my Cambridge Audio CD player that lists Wow and Flutter on the spec page? Why? Just to show that it's better than a turntable. Most modern turntables have wow and flutter below human auditory perception anyway. So here we have a bragging rights spec that means zilch in the real world of listening.
Even this distortion debate - one speaker has 0.2% THD at 400hz and another has 0.7% - yeah so what? I doubt either will be differentiated in real world transients (music playback).
Well I know the 0.5% difference.
But I'm also completely crazy as well!
Yep, I hear ya. The real world can really screw up those numbers chasers.
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