[Scott Dorsey]

In article , JBI wrote:
Do you want a system in your home that sounds like the car?

The car sounds the way it does because:

1. It has crappy speakers with the metal body of the car used as the cabinet
so there are some odd resonances.

2. The speakers aren't pointed at the listener.

3. The listener is way off-center out of the sweet spot.

4. The room volume is very small (and the room is tightly sealed so the Q
is high, unless you drive with the windows down). So you have some bass
oddities.

5. The room is very reflective (due to the windows) but the surfaces are not
parallel.


Now, you can take some cheap car speakers and put them in boxes without about
the same volume as the chambers behind them in the car. You can fill up the
spaces behind the speakers in the car with packing peanuts, then put the
peanuts in a box and figure out how many cubic inches they fill up. You can
connect them to a home power amp and it will do what you say you want. But it
won't really sound like the car does.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."