In Reply to: Maybe you place to much importance in diffraction ? posted by Mike B. on July 3, 2012 at 15:43:20:
I don't think you can place too much emphasis on diffraction, and the effects are quite audible and show up quite readily in a frequency-response chart of sufficient resolution.
Good designers are addressing it in speakers that cost a few hundred buck. For thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands, it should essentially be a non-issue because there is plenty the designer can do in terms of cabinet shape to address it. Companies at the high end that are doing an extremely good job of addressing it are Vivid Audio, Rockport Technologies, and Revel. Even at the lower end, Definitive Technology has done a very good job in their new StudioMonitor 55, which sells for just $598/pair. We'll have a review of that speaker on SoundStageHiFi.com on July 15. There are others, of course, but I wanted to point out a few to illustrate that it is being taken seriously by some.
Doug Schneider
SoundStage! Network
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- RE: Maybe you place to much importance in diffraction ? - Doug Schneider 06:36:56 07/04/12 (8)
- Well put - badman 09:41:02 07/06/12 (0)
- RE: Maybe you place to much importance in diffraction ? - Mike B. 09:39:26 07/04/12 (6)
- RE: Maybe you place to much importance in diffraction ? - Inmate51 10:49:09 07/04/12 (5)
- RE: Maybe you place to much importance in diffraction ? - Doug Schneider 13:49:41 07/04/12 (4)
- So that would pretty much relegate anything by Audio Note to the scrap heap? - David S. 10:10:55 07/05/12 (3)
- RE: So that would pretty much relegate anything by Audio Note to the scrap heap? - Doug Schneider 10:47:25 07/05/12 (2)
- No arguments here... - David S. 10:58:44 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: No arguments here... - Doug Schneider 14:27:23 07/05/12 (0)