AW: speakers: was AW: [sdiy] DIY help needed

[Czech Martin]

And the funny thing is that these high price guys never mention
the listening room. What sense does it make to measure in an anechoic
chamber? I want to have sound in my living room, I don't want
to live in a room stuffed with foam pyramids...

It would be the same if people make anything to build a good
horn driver, never taking the horn properties into account.

I think no matter how much you spend, a reproduction of
a given acoustical situation into an arbitrary room
via loudspeaker is simply impossible.

It is like the holy grail, you will never achieve.

You will never feel that you're sitting in the
original concert hall, in the best case you'll obeserve
that you are sitting in a small room next to it,
and that the wall between has two more or less small holes.
So the concert hall sound comes in, but will then activate
the resonances in your room.

It will simply sound like sound comming from two sources in the wall
resonating in your small room. This will be the case for very good speakers.
Not so good speakers will pose some kind of distortion network
into the holes of the example, so that dispersion, bass/treble roll of
can be observed.

Hey, this is dangerous.
I recently mixed down a few tracks for a audio exhibition.
A part of it was done with headphones. A part of it
was done via cheap speakers, which I know to have treeble
roll off. The result was: ear piercing high frequency 
parts. Not that I would kill them via EQ, I just would have
given some sort of linear scaling to these dangerous parts.

Quite an experience for the audience.
Never regret, just do as it was plannend this way.

;->

m.c.



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Florian_Anwander [mailto:Florian.Anwander at consol.de]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 2. November 2001 16:26
> An: Czech Martin; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Betreff: Re: speakers: was AW: [sdiy] DIY help needed
> 
> 
> Hi Martin
> 
> The best Box I ever heard was a Auratone (you know them? looks like a
> car speaker in 15x15x15 cm wood cube) built in the 
> meterbridge of a D&R
> 8000 console , the speakers driven by a Yamaha 2002 Amplifier (yes:
> 2x400 W to a 18 W loudspeaker).
> 
> The second best are those:
> > http://www.manger-msw.com
> My neighbour has them. Really really astonishing, but a 
> little pricey...
> 
> Florian
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