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In the Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel.
Post Subject: Multiples of the Same Rising Response Curve?Posted by Paul S on: 11/15/2010
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Jessie makes an interesting point with the idea of trying to get ULF from 97 X 2" drivers. Very few small drivers are "optimized" to produce ULF in the first place, and so far the small-ish, BIG X-MAX drivers that are intended for "bass" have not been musically convincing.
Reflecting, if the big, expensive "audiophile" speakers falter at musical LF it is not always the quantity but rather the quality thereof that ultimately disappoints and offends. Who knows if 10" drivers might somehow "work" for ULF under certain unheard of circumstances? Meanwhile, various and sundry 10" drivers have had decades to prove themselves as the Class A Recommended audiophile system default "woofer". And sure enough, some of the expensive audiophile speakers actually wind up to "measure flat" (at least how/where they are tested...). But, obviously, they must be doing something wrong, and who can put up with the audiophile "fast and tight" bass systems, in the first place?
It has to mean something when it is necessary to waste so much driver output to get "LF" from smaller drivers. I'd like to know what are the smaller drivers putting out that needs to get wasted, in the first place? In the case of the "widerange" 10" drivers in question, I wonder if it is the "best", optimal part of their output that gets scrubbed?
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