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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2024 15:07:43 GMT
Thats right Westie. Big speakers are absolutely no good to me. I also dont listen at high levels hence small speaker short distance is what i do. A lot of people do the near field on desk listening these days these will also be the ones that use Files as a primary source.
But going back to big speakers I just do not & never have no matter how good the speaker were get 3way to work right Mid range never seems to integrate where as good 2 ways are fine
Im not really up to date with Hi-Fi but do many down to earth companies still make 3 Ways, or are they just designed with two same drivers wired together ?
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Post by dsjr on May 7, 2024 7:51:58 GMT
Larger speakers in a small room can be odd due to the driver integration not being fully realised, but I don't feel it has to be this way. When I had the ATC 100A's, I sat no more than 3m away from them and with the hulking harbeths, it's 2.5m or so, maybe 3m at a pinch. My issue here is a visual one more than anything, but I spent years using NS1000s and Isobariks in particular, in a small bedroom where I could reach out and touch them. Gale 301s, an otherwise nicer pair of Kans (plus another pair I made under supervision at Linn) and Rega Elas simply screamed and shouted, with no bass whatsoever as these seemed to prefer 'firing' down a rectangular room which would augment the bass a little. Genelec have a chart showing all their models and suggested listening distances beyond which the room-reflected sound takes over from the direct soundwaves from the speakers themselves. Anyway, whatever helps us enjoy the music really
P.S. My hearing as it is now, NEEDS bolstering in the two-way crossover region where too many companies dip the response down to mask driver matching errors, or in B&W and PMCs case, to reduce oerceived harshness in elderly male listener's ears - they SSSpice the extreme top up after to compensate for old age hearing drop-off and give a false sence of 'deeetail.' Adding a mid driver carefully can help the speaker 'disperse' into a room (this aspect of dispersion/directivity is ignored by the subjective speaker builders but is the last thing that so many speakers need to sort) but the bass to mid crossover can be an issue although it's better now than before as drivers have improved and there are better and more consistent ways of testing. Sitting further away helps mask these things as the room reflections add and blur what we hear a bit.
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