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In Reply to: RE: And I believe they do like! posted by Don Till on May 07, 2009 at 12:20:03
"However that being said, reasonable priced loudspeakers meet the same frequency specifications as more esoteric and much more costly loudspeakers."
The problem is the frequency response does as much to tell you how two cars are alike as saying they were the same shade of red.
Seriously, from an engineering point of view,you simply don't find speakers that measure or sound the same one model to the next, one mfr to another. The only possible differences are departures from a faithful reproducer and room effects (related to directivity)
"The irony is that expensive gear in general meets the same specifications as moderately priced gear."
It may or may not but in general the glitz factor has little bearing on actual performance and when you hear a difference but don't see one in the measurements, your measuring the wrong thing.
So far as coloration, i have to take a different view.
I have no idea who will use the stuff i design,have no idea what they will play etc.
When i depended mostly on my ears, i found i could refine a speaker to a point but then was left wondering what direction to go.
With the drivers i was building, any change you made caused the sound and measurements to change, often i found some alteration made some things sound good but others sound not as good as before.
At that point i decided i would go with which ever one seemed to be moving in the direction of a faithful reproducer, according to the various measurements.
In the case of a multi-way speaker, that also involves making it act like it were one driver in time and space.
Best,
Tom
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