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RE: "just like an instrument does"

Posted by rivervalley817 on November 24, 2020 at 11:24:26:
'Could it be that omni-directional speakers favor unamplified music'

in my experience yes they do to an extent ... except

in electrified instruments there's different types of speaker cabinets used and some of them are 'open back' cabs ... while a drum kit's output radius is very omnidirectional in nature ... front, back, up-down, while the vocalist is usually miked through closed back cabinets to project towards listeners ... yet since those wave forms are amplified there's stronger reflected sound involved ... you can probably tell where I'm going with this ...

so an omni or OB speaker system can and often does better reproduce a more natural ambient listening experience, and of course the better engineered they are the better that experience is

your mileage probably won't vary!

be well,