Speaker drivers are incredibly reactive to input frequency and this is what drives the varying impedance of most speaker cabinets. Physics dictates this. It's easy to push a cone that's oscillating at its resonant frequency and very hard to push it significantly faster than this.
Not that any of this matters to the end user. One factor not thus far discussed is that in small rooms sitting fairly close to speakers you can wind up in a near field monitor type scenario, whereby the sound coming to your ears is predominantly direct from the speakers rather than standing waves or reflected off other room surfaces. Add in large amount of typical living room furniture and that means you can quite successfully have large speakers in small rooms, as long as you sit in the right place.. this probably explains why I get away with a pair of 804s in a small room fed by a Naim amp. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
