Dipole the sides are 180 degrees out of phase.You would need to invert the phase then.
I can prove your room is bad
So you want to upgrade? You want to know what the next big thing is you can do for a better sounding experience?
Try this. Pull up a chair 2' in front of your speakers. If you can't move the speakers, put it up to just 1, and listen for yourself.
The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics. If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room, and if you can't, consider getting speakers with alternative room coupling, like ESL's, line arrays, bi-polars, etc.
That is all,
Erik
Try this. Pull up a chair 2' in front of your speakers. If you can't move the speakers, put it up to just 1, and listen for yourself.
The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics. If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room, and if you can't, consider getting speakers with alternative room coupling, like ESL's, line arrays, bi-polars, etc.
That is all,
Erik
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I don't. My speakers sound a lot better at the listening chair. Which is in agreement with: The difference between what you hear sitting in front of the speaker like this, and what you hear at your normal location is all in the speaker dispersion and room acoustics. And based on the conditional recommendation: If you feel mesmerized, entranced, and wowed by your speaker at 2' but not 8' you really should consider improving the room This method does not demonstrate a need for you to improve the room. You pass. |
" This method does not demonstrate a need for you to improve the room. " Looking at Ralph’s observation that his speakers sound better at the listening chair through an alternative lens: Ralph’s Classic Audio T-3 horn loudspeakers generate a spectrally correct reverberant field, which makes a beneficial contribution at the listening chair. I’m not saying this is the ONLY beneficial thing going on at a normal listening distance in this case, but imo it is one of them. Duke |
@Fuzztone I think my room above the garage sounds pretty good, but I'm not thrilled that my listening couch is up against the knee wall with a sloped ceiling above my head. But I can set up my Maggies 4 feet from the wall, 8 feet apart and 11 feet from my listeni couch. All things considered it still sound pretty good Watch "Magnepan .7's & audio system" on YouTube https://youtu.be/WmHjTmDRO88 |
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