Bill Graham wrote:
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Arny Krueger wrote:
I hesitate to elevate speakers that were designed to be floor
standers.
The lowest octave response of speakers is designed for aq certain
space that they work into. Some speakers are desgned for what is
known as a half-space, such as on a wall or in the middle of a
floor. Others are designed for a quarter-space such as the middle
of a corner or near a floor or a ceiling. A few speakers are
designed for use in either a full space - suspended in the middle
of free space or an eigth-space which would be in a corner at the
floor or the ceiling. Using a speaker in a space other than the
one that it was properly designed can reasonably be expected to
produce incorrect bass response.
You hit the nail on the head, however I doubt that more than a tiny
fraction of users understand the 'space' issue, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_space
Graham
I have a friend whose house if full of small speakers about 6 inches
in diameter....He's got at least two of them in every room. He has
one huge woofer that's hidden behind and below the TV in his living
room.....I think it may be bolted to the floor, because you can hear
the whole house shake if the music contains the lows to do it. It
really made me re evaluate my own thoughts on speakers....All you
really need is one good bolted down woofer, and all the other
speakers can be small and relatively cheap, and you get a fantastic
sound system.
Not if you want to hear any stereo content in the bass region.
Graham
That is, (of course) true, but I don't think there IS much stereo
content in the bass region.....At least, I don't seem to hear any, so if
it exists, it is probably hard to hear.
Depends on the music source. Modern electronic rock / pop music is
likely to have more stereo bass content than an orchestra I'd suspect.
The big misunderstanding about bass is the myth that it is all
omnidirectional.
More correctly, the cabinet radiation at low frequencies is nearly
omnidirectional but that is an entirely different matter from the
content of the source and yes it IS audible.
Graham