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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker

Post Subject: Not-so-wide-range single-driverPosted by tuga on: 1/24/2009

Joe,

Since this topic is about a particular single driver speaker, but still a monodrive, let me ask you a question.

One of the fundamental shortcomings of the not-so-wide-range single-driver class is, as you know, a not so wide frequency range. You say that it doesn't matter, that you can enjoy music without f.e. low frequencies, but my question is: would you accept a photograph from a camera if it didn't do "blacks" and "extreme darks"? I'm sure you wouldn't, and although more difficult than with sound reproduction I am sure it would be possible to make a few uneducated (or just plain) souls believe it's magical properties...

I could enumerate a few other, but I will add just two more: inability to play loud and intermodulation distortion.
Why these two?
You mentioned that you enjoyed "backwater" music and this simple (as opposed to complex) music, with only a few instruments, is easy to reproduce. This makes it inappropriate for evaluating a system or a component from a technical point of view when compared to jazz band or, even better, to a symphonic orchestra which are far richer in diversity, scale or any other parameter that you can think of.

And then there's what Romy calls Content...

My only doubt now is whether you don't recognize these facts because you want to believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth or because it would hurt your marketing goal.

Cheers,
Tuga

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