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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: The number 20Posted by steverino on: 4/1/2018
I am thinking how to inject the sub 20 Hz bass in my room. I
do have space to do and means to do it but I am slowly contemplating for more
elegant way to do it…
Why are you trying to get sub 20Hz in your room in order to play Bruckner's symphonies or anyone else's? The orchestral bass goes down to the mid 30s Hz limit nearly an octave above 20Hz. The only exception would be large pipe organ
where the lowest note is 16Hz. Bruckner's crescendos are weighty not only because of the massed forces but also the relatively low frequency range of the trumpets he used (in F not C) and the way he orchestrated the brass and strings. The lower range instruments have more overtones in the audible range and therefore fill up the soundfield. The slow tempos also help increase coherent reverberations. Mahler and Richard Strauss use the brass and horns in more varied fashion and are more contrapuntal in the scoring.
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