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In Reply to: RE: Orchestral-sized events are the worst "live reference" posted by KlausR. on October 24, 2010 at 06:01:36
The way I see it, different types of loudspeakers specialize in different types of radiation patterns and they exist in order to cater to the personalized preferences of different types of listeners. There may be loudspeaker designs that qualify as "best overall", but the "jack of all trades, master of none" ideal may not appeal to everyone. Certain types of loudspeakers seem to capture the radiation patterns, dynamics, and timbres of certain types of instruments better than other loudspeakers do. If you like to listen to those types of instruments then you are free to specialize. And of course, certain loudspeaker designs are more expensive to produce than others are. Your choice of "favorite loudspeaker" might depend on what you consider to be objective criteria or it might depend on the kind of music you like to listen to... and, how much you want to pay! More expensive loudspeakers are definitely required if we want the deepest and most accurate bass, regardless of the topology. But I think many of us (consciously or unconsciously) accept the fact that as we optimize our systems for certain aspects of playback (or even for "best overall" level of playback), we simultaneously sacrifice playback capabilities in certain ways.
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Radiation patterns of loudspeakers and musical instruments have absolutely nothing in common. A picture says more than 1000 words, they say, so I have prepared an overview (Word file, for the time being in German) of patterns of different instruments, taken from literature I was able to locate. Feel free to drop me a mail off-board for a copy.
As Toole has found it's not so much the type of pattern that matters as how well the response curves behave. Good behaviour is not a question of money, but of good engineering. Geddes speakers are an example.
Klaus
Absolutely nothing? Or, is it a question of degree? No loudspeaker mimics the radiation patterns of musical instruments exactly but certain loudspeakers would seem to come closer than others in some instances, and sometimes that edge in similarity is what tips the scale in that speakers favor in those instances. The large radiating surfaces and dipole dispersion patterns of my old Magnepan 1.6 speakers had nothing to do with how realistic piano music sounded when I used them for this purpose? Are you saying that in-room frequency response was the only reason that piano music sounded so lifelike with these loudspeakers? I guess it's possible that frequency response is the only thing that matters in every case, but somehow I find that hard to believe.
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I don't think that there's any evidence that frequency response is the only thing that matters. And a lot of evidence that while it's extremely important, it isn't.
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