Trust your ears. As a musician you have a huge advantage in that your brain is very familiar with live music. Don't become like the rest of us that become hypercritical about things that in the end are not so important. Listen to a broad sampling of music you love. If the speaker checks off all the boxes important to you, measurements do not mean much. Good luck.
3-4 dB dip at crossover region: what should I listen for to hear it?
I haven’t posted here for about 10 years but thought I’d jump back in to ask about my new JBL 4349s. According to measurements on ASR and even JBLs own graphs, the 4349s have a 3-4 dB dip in the crossover region at about the 1.5 kHz mark. What should I listen for to hear this? I understand that music in this range will be quieter, but I’m not hearing any suckout compared to my Omegas or other speakers Ive had in my system. I’ve played some clarinet and violin concertos, two instruments that spend a lot of time in this frequency range, but I can’t hear an obvious difference. Am I listening for the wrong thing? I’d like to be able to hear this deficiency for leaning purposes if nothing else, so any pointers are appreciated.
Many thanks!
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@corelli, apologies for the misunderstanding -- should have written that I played concerto recordings, lol. Good advice on trusting my ears. I like a lot of the things these speakers do but they're pretty new so I'm still adjusting to them. |
No worries, my advice would still stand. Keep in mind some gear can measure very very well and be quite sterile and unexciting. If after extended listening you love a given speaker without reservation--that's all that really matters in the end. As I type, I am listening to a SET amp driving full range speakers in my secondary system. I am sure this does not measure well. But it brings me a very large measure of musical satisfaction. Trust your ears. In the end, that is all that matters. Take your time on speakers. Often it take time to reveal shortcomings |
@rischa , In general, if you want to catch on to things like that..... - Get a pair of flat nearfield studio monitors with significant clarity and detail like the Yamaha HS8, HS7 or similar (Siiting nearfield at 3ft away can get much of the room's confoundance out if the way). - Hook it up to a processor/DAC with multiband PEQ. - Play tracks you know very well on such monitors and start bumping up/down PEQ bands with high Q, low Q, etc. Discern how it sounds different to your ears with such manual PEQ changes. It can be a fairly quick way to train your ears.
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