What exactly is a speaker box sound?
In another thread the comment was made that all speakers with baffles cause them to have edge diffraction effects which makes it easy to hear the speaker itself, instead of the music.
Maybe I'm spoiled but it's been a very long time since I have heard this effect in real life. What speakers have you heard lately which sound exactly like speakers instead of music?
@richopp I agree with everything you said. |
Well, we shant have it! Heresy, indeed! Off with their, uh, feet! Like I posted, everyone has their own opinions. Buy what YOU like. Thank-you! Everyone likes to be agreed with. I had the good fortune to LISTEN to many brands of gear played through many brands of speakers when I had my shop. We also had real musical instruments present, and were able to compare them to (processed) recorded sound. I come by my OPINIONS through many hours of listening to many, many "high-end" products in my shop. Whether others find the combo I believe to be most accurate to their liking is why there are about 500 manufacturers of home audio "stuff" around at any given time. Makes it all fun, I guess... Cheers! |
Cabinet resonance and buzzing of course let one know the speaker is in a box but I'm not sure that's what we're talking about here. More like the 'closed-in' box sound some may or may not exhibit. I think modern boxes are far better and money seems to buy a more open sound regardless. I've heard Magnepans for over forty years and owned Martin Logan electrostats as mains. If you enjoy 'large' singers and images, great. I sure don't feel they are more accurate. I went to a good pair of ported boxes and will never, ever go back as they reproduce music far more accurately IMO. And that's after a lifetime of listening and attending shows, so...to each his own opinion. |
