jdm56;229928 Wrote: > Pardon me, but I believe it is the dipole radiator whose output > diminishes less with distance compared to the monopole.
Nope. Just as Pat says, dipole fields fall off like 1/r^3, monopoles like 1/r^2. > > Also, "standard box speakers" are not "close to monopoles" at low > frequencies. What they do become is omnipolar, or non-directional at > the lowest frequencies. As far as I know "omnipolar" isn't a word, but if it means non-directional to you, that's known as monopolar to the rest of us. > > And generally speaking, all monopolar speakers dispersion narrows as > frequency rises. Hence, they do not produce a "higher ratio of > reflected to direct sound", but actually the opposite. I don't think you understood what I said there. My point was that at higher frequencies the Orions would produce a higher ratio of reflected to direct sound than boxes, because boxes become increasingly directional while the Orions remain dipoles. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38593 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
