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RE: systems that measure flat at their listening position

>>The loudspeaker designer has no knowledge and no influence whatsoever about the environmental conditions in which his speakers are being used<<

>That is nonsense, see link.<


What I was intending to say is that a designer does not know where and how his speakers are going to be used, limiting this discussion to small rooms as in homes or recording studios. For studio monitors there is maybe less uncertainty and variation than for domestic speakers, but Mäkivirta's paper shows that there are quite substantial differences between different monitoring rooms. He also states that in some cases speakers designed for in-wall installation were used free-standing.

In a home situation the room can be very reverberant or very dead, the designer doesn't know. The room may be rectangular, or oddly shaped, the designer doesn't know. The user may place his speakers free-standing, against walls, in the corners, both of the stereo-pair or just one, the designer doesn't know. Nor has he influence other than making recommendations. As Mäkivirta has found, even in professional environment, folks do use speakers wrongly.

The designer is not in a position to design speakers that measure flat in-room, because he doesn't know in which room. My room is rectangular, the room of a collegue is rectangular but connected to an open kitchen and an open square annex used as playing space for the kids, height in the three different parts is different.

In my room the speakers are on 10 cm high platforms, not wall mounted or on stands as they would be in a control room. That's what I meant by "the designer has no knowledge or influence whatsoever".

Klaus


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