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Re: you love a speaker with a small sweet spot?

Posted by Presto (A) on February 15, 2007 at 15:56:55

In Reply to: you love a speaker with a small sweet spot? posted by docw on February 15, 2007 at 15:17:52:

Hi Pjay.

Hey Docw.

I have DIY speakers with a small sweet spot. Their baffle geometry does lend itself to a forgiving/wide sweet spot.

Know what? I have my listening chair measured and my body position and head position is very close every time. (within 1/2" probably).

I don't walk around my listening room when I listen. If my and my g/f listen at the same time, I sit in a computer chair BEHIND the sweet spot chair. It's not romantic, but we both want to be in the centerline of the gear. She gets this! (Gotta love her...) And if I want music to be mobile I would use headphones.

So... my opinion? I would rather have a speaker with a small sweet spot than one with a large sweet spot IF the smaller sweet spot is indeed SWEETER!

Most audiophiles I know really only do critical listening in the center chair, where a small sweet spot is *usually* a non issue.

If your head is tilting from side to side (which some people do when listening - people do this when analysing things. It's funny to watch), and moving 1/2" or so back and forth and you are hearing blatent changes in how the image is presenting or experiencing phase-iness, then that is more likely a case of something being plain WRONG with the crossover design or driver connections! Extreme room correction algorithms can also make your sweet spot shrink to the size of a decimal point - that is why even digital room correction has subjective variables involved. Too "intensive" of an algorithm may offer greated improvement in transfer function, but only in an increasingly smaller sweet spot location. Go outside that spot (where the mic was situated for generating the correction impulses), and things are actually WORSE instead of better!!

Your take Doc?

Cheers,
Presto

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