drmatt wrote: > Speaker drivers are incredibly reactive to input frequency and this is > what dominates 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. The crossover electronics should not be a major part of this > phenomenon. > > 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-
Hi Doc! I must confess that I have been bamboozled into thinking that the mechanical impedance of the speaker cabinet was a separate phenomenon (& I thought, a mostly resistive effect causing dissipation of unusable power as heat energy in the voice coil that is mechanically prevented from moving by the inertia of the air within the speaker enclosure) from electrical impedance. Perhaps I have misunderstood this. Your 804's are really not that much bigger than my 805's, & are probably less affected by being placed close-ish to neighbouring walls than larger floor-standers, although there must be some bass reinforcement from this. Studio oriented near-field monitors are intended for close range listening for sure (primarily by ensuring that the drivers in them integrate well at a very short listening distance), but the mixing desk one is meant to be sitting at when using them (which they would be sitting right on top of) would not ideally itself be jammed up against a wall. I think that this is a separate issue from domestic listening room acoustics, with respect. I'm not meaning to be unnecessarily argumentative, just seeking clarity myself really. As long as you're getting a musical experience that suits you, that's fine really... Dave :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
