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| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science "Once we get into the non-linear things, it can get complicated real fast." - Richard Feynman Very true!! Fortunately as long as loudspeakers are not pushed past their linear excursion limits, non-linear distortion is highly unlikely. What is NOT ... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Andy2 wrote: "One cannot judge a pair of speaker with the freq and phase plot." Agreed, a frequency plot and a phase plot are insufficient. But there is fairly good evidence that one can judge a pair of speakers with a sufficiently comprehensive s... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik: "OK, I’ve briefly read the AES papers [pertaining to the GedLee Metric]. So Duke proposes a way of modelling systems so that multiple non-linear behaviors can be amalgamated at once, and then comparing that to what is known about auditory ma... | |
| Listening Room Dimensions... I'm building one and need your help One reason for my suggestion of "hire a professional" BEFORE building the room is that there are differing schools of thought on the importance of room dimension ratios. I am quite familiar with golden ratios and their theoretical desirability, bu... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science @erik_squires wrote: "The point was that we talk about a handful of measurements as if they were all we needed and all we should ever have, and we call this science." Who is this "we"? Duke | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik wrote: "Don’t focus on distortion. Focus on us in consumer land (albeit educated consumer) having a limited number of measures and assuming we can’t have or use more." I am confused. Can you restate what you are looking for? I’m sure it’s cle... | |
| IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science Erik wrote: "Measurements in the consumer literature have become complacent. We’ve become far too willing to accept the limits of measurements from the 1980’s and fail to develop new standard ways of testing. As a result of this we have devolved i... | |
| Reading Suggestions Please ? What is your Go-To Source? "Please list ONE publication, blog or person you find to be your favorite source of learning." Earl Geddes. Earl is way out on the tail end of the bell curve, and fortunately for us audio is his area of interest and expertise. His website is gedle... | |
| Listening Room Dimensions... I'm building one and need your help Early on in a project like this is when the most far-reaching decisions are made, and it is when your knowledge and experience are the least. So this is arguably when you will benefit the most from the services of a professional. I am a reasonably... | |
| Why not underhung voice coil? "...supposed to be more linear (lower distortions), especially for big excursions."I do not agree that underhung motors are more linear for large excursions as a blanket statement; imo the situation is more complicated than that. Yes they are some... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Erik wrote: "One secret, which an ASC guy told me once, but I agree with, is listen to the music in the hallway. You can go up and down the hall and quickly pick out the well tuned rooms without ever having to walk in." From outside the open doorw... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Dborden702 wrote: "I used to attend many audio shows. The first thing I would look at when walking into a room was how many acoustic room treatments and system tweak toys were in play. The speakers and systems that impressed me were the ones that ... | |
| sealed 3-ways Willmac wrote: "Room gain can work v well with sealed designs, giving a more natural bass response." More natural in-room bass response is generally, but not exclusively, an advantage of sealed boxes. According to Martin Collums and Dan Wiggi... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms @nonoise wrote: " That bit of trivia just made my day. " [Way off topic] As it was related to me: Some of Gene LeBell’s judo students were doing stunt work for a Steven Seagal movie. Gene was there and objected to one particular stunt on the groun... | |
| Speakers that sound great in terrible rooms Heaudio123 wrote: " I would argue that unless the speaker has poor/uneven off-axis response, then it is the room..." Totally agree!! Heaudio123: "...and I don’t agree with your argument about Omnidirectionals amplifying room irregularity, as they ... |