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 input > voltage through time is a straightforward task and current tech is > measurably excellent at it. This is what I mean by line level equipment > being simpler.
Mnyb wrote: > +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 > ? Nicely stated gentlemen but nowhere in either post did you mention MAGIC, which trumps science and sound quality when it comes to audiophile equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
