darrenyeats wrote: > PS: Current loudspeaker tech is full of compromises. Open versus closed > baffle, single versus multiple driver, dynamic versus electrostatic. > Each has pros and cons. There isn't one technology that can deliver high > performance in every way at once: distortion, impulse response, group > delay, even dispersion, frequency response, loudness capability etc. > Current technology is a matter of compromise...which compromises are > good? > > On top of that, which idealised radiation pattern is best? Surely this > depends on the application and the room the loudspeaker will be placed > in? > > It's in these considerations where the designer's skill, ingenuity and > views on psycho-acoustics can result in very different products. > > Relatively, getting output voltage to be a linear function of output > voltage over time is a straightforward task and current tech is > measurably excellent at it. This is what I mean by line level equipment > being simpler. > > Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk 2
+1 electronics is pretty one dimensional compared to speakers , you can never have a transparent speaker it will impose a signature . But here again audiophiles excell in making the wrong optimisations for example extremely expensive miniature stand mounted 2 way speakers , you get to the "end" of this concept pretty fast , you can't cheat physics one 5" driver can only move so much air and quickly gets nonlinear and start to compress etc and also brand name drivers and silly passive xover components that's cost more than an active filter that is 1000 times better ( a bunch of op amps better any passive filter ). You can have good audiophile speakers but the price is basically down to suboptimal solution in many cases. Or extremely lush fit and finish that are of furniture art quality , but was it not sound quality we discussed ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
