I have a simple headphone setup at work (audioquest dragonfly red, schiit valhalla 2, sennheiser momentum 2, Morrow MAP 2 Power cord) that depending on the music, sounds so pure and cohesive compared to my setup at home (red dragon s500, metrum amethyst, kef LS50, triode wire labs 7+, schiit sys, Morrow MA4 interconnects and SP4 speaker cable). Now it might be that the headphones are full range and the Kefs are not, or room effects, cabling, tubes vs ss; there are so many variables in my two setups. But I think I understand what he is saying, but may not completely agree with him.
There are inevitable technical challenges in the change of scale from a set of headphones to a set of loudspeakers, and designers tend to make loudspeakers quite complicated in the ways Herb mentions (crossovers, filters, phase alignment, etc.) in order to compensate. What if the scale of space continues to increase (performance)? No doubt those challenges are greater.
I am familiar with the Ohm Walsh speakers, and they use a completely different design than I've seen. I've never heard these speakers but am very interested. (old model of speakers but the tech still still similar).
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/ohm/ohm.html
Curious if anyone else has a headphone and speaker setup and could comment here?
There are inevitable technical challenges in the change of scale from a set of headphones to a set of loudspeakers, and designers tend to make loudspeakers quite complicated in the ways Herb mentions (crossovers, filters, phase alignment, etc.) in order to compensate. What if the scale of space continues to increase (performance)? No doubt those challenges are greater.
I am familiar with the Ohm Walsh speakers, and they use a completely different design than I've seen. I've never heard these speakers but am very interested. (old model of speakers but the tech still still similar).
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/ohm/ohm.html
Curious if anyone else has a headphone and speaker setup and could comment here?