How important is power response?


Power response is rarely discussed, especially by speaker manufacturers. On axis frequency response is obviously critical, but what about the linearity of the off axis response?

Is it important, why or why not?
ojgalli

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Ojgalli,

Billy Woodman believes it is very important. It is one of the main benefits of a dome mid range. The absence of an even power response in the mid range in most designs means that the much more dispersive bass and tweeter will tend to dominate the reverberant field and mask mid range detail...furthermore the sweetspot will be much narrower.

Your point is a valid one...most designers do not worry about this limitation of a cone mid range.... and, to be fair, an even power response is of less importance in near field applications than in far field applications.

Rule of thumb => if you have a cone mid range then try to sit directly in the sweetspot and close to the speakers.