IMO to many people do not have a clear understanding of what bass actually is. Bass should be what the artist and producer have made it as part of the whole sound. Most artist have what I would call tight bass guitar that harmonizes with the drummer. This is where you need to separate bass into the multiple categories that it is. A kick drum I want to feel like a punch to the gut, a bass guitar I want to provide a solid tight rhythm to the track. What really confused most listeners was when Tool and others introduced drop D tuning. This lead listeners to think all songs should play down there, but they don’t. To many time people want to over produce “all” bass and you end up with mud or a lot of uncompressed vibrations. This is very common in hip hop as it masked over the crap sound of everything else that is all just over sampled tracks they borrow. Then you also run into the track production. If the artist and produce did not put the bass in you can’t make it appear out of thin air and expect it to sound good. Yes different speakers make bass in different ways but in the end you want to hear what the artist gave us. Everyone wants to be or thinks they are “producers” and can or could have done better. I think speakers and their numbers should best the main type of music you listen to. If a Marshall bottom is running 8 ohm and 90 db on most music I like I want my speaker to try and reproduce the sound the artist has made.
The two most common mistakes are bass and treble
OK, so I know many of you will have a knee jerk reaction to that with something like "well you've just covered most of the spectrum!" but I mean to say more than what I can fit in a headline.
When first purchasing speakers the biggest regrets, or sometimes bad choices without regret, is looking for a speaker that is too detailed. In the store over 10 minutes it mesmerizes you with the resolution of frequencies you thought you would never hear again. You take the speakers home and after a month you realize they are ear drills. High pitched, shrill sounding harpies you can't believe you listened to long enough to make a choice.
The other mistake, which audiophiles life with far too long is buying too big a speaker for the room. The specmanship of getting 8 more Hertz in the -3dB cutoff is a huge factor in speaker purchases.
What do you think the biggest mistakes are when buying speakers?
When first purchasing speakers the biggest regrets, or sometimes bad choices without regret, is looking for a speaker that is too detailed. In the store over 10 minutes it mesmerizes you with the resolution of frequencies you thought you would never hear again. You take the speakers home and after a month you realize they are ear drills. High pitched, shrill sounding harpies you can't believe you listened to long enough to make a choice.
The other mistake, which audiophiles life with far too long is buying too big a speaker for the room. The specmanship of getting 8 more Hertz in the -3dB cutoff is a huge factor in speaker purchases.
What do you think the biggest mistakes are when buying speakers?
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Within a specific power envelope ?We make amps from 30 to 500 watts. And certainly, anyone *could* state that the ATC SCM50 (85db/W/m) suffers unduly from thermal compression.The other problem you deal with is of course that you get thermal compression if the speaker lacks efficiency. You can’t solve this by getting a more powerful amp You can't solve thermal compression via crossover design or internal amplifiers for the loudspeaker system. Thermal compression is a function of the voice coil itself. Rather than explain how this works I've linked a Wiki page below. This is not mysterious; thermal compression has been a known thing for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_compression |
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