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Is speaker design art or science?

If you ask one audiophile what makes the perfect speaker he will say, perfect response, on/off axis, perfect distortion, perfect cumulative spectral decay etc. If you ask another, he will say its a matter of preference.

Depending on who you ask, its considered an art or a science. The problem is, it cant really be both. It can only be one or the other. 

Either speaker designers know what theyre doing.They know what theyre trying to achieve and how to achieve it. Or they dont. And they are just making it up as they go along. They are simply putting a bunch of parts together and seeing what the outcome is. 

Whats the perfect speaker cabinet? Is it one thats perfectly rigid? one that is well damped? or one that sounds nice?
Whats the perfect crossover? Is it one that measures flat on axis? Or one that sounds good?

Is speaker design a hoax?
kenjit
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nonoise
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The problem is, it cant really be both. It can only be one or the other.
The problem is the way you frame your arguments. Your premises are always flawed, like you’re looking for a fight and your intention is to troll, which is so painfully obvious to anyone who’s followed you long enough.

The science is always in the development of the speaker, done by the maker and those who’ve gone before. The end product is the art, the speaker itself.

You’ve run out of arguments. Get over it, and yourself.

All the best,
Nonoise

ebm
9,311 posts
 
Your life is a hoax.
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fuzztone
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Magic doofus.

reubent
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Is speaker design art or science?

Yes
mesch
3,510 posts
 
In part, the science is knowing what to do, the art is the ability to get it done.
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