Re: Frequency response of the ear

In article <gthq25$294m$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith G
<ksg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Don Pearce" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:49fe52c2.7943468@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 2 May 2009 14:46:05 +0100, "Keith G" <ksg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



You're on the wrong tack, or making the same mistake yourself - the
'presumption' I refer to is to presume the budget speakers won't deliver
a good 'stereo image' (or out of phase 'null', if you prefer) simply
beause they are *budget*!

So far as I know, that isn't a 'presumption' I made or wrote.

My experience is that they can, in fact, image very well (often, the
smaller cabinet, the better)

There can be good reasons for that. Smaller speakers will approach being
ones that radiate in all directions and do so over a range of frequencies.
This can help imaging compared with speakers that have directional patterns
that vary wildy with frequency. The snag is that radiation in all
directions makes you more sensitive to room reflections since you are
spraying the sound all over the walls. Panel speakers like the ESLs tend to
'beam' fore and aft so don't excite short delay side-wall reflections as
much.

So with small speakers the room requirements change (more difficult) if you
want imaging of the kind I've been talking about.

The problem with cheap speakers (of any size) is that two of them used as a
'pair' may actually be very different. The more they differ, the less
satisfactory the image would tend to become. All depends on the details.

Slainte,

Jim

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