High Fidelity Cables NPS-1260 3D Enhancer >>>Game-Changer
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What makes speaker's sound big?
High Fidelity Cables NPS-1260 3D Enhancer >>>Game-Changer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wliupB_i5JY |
This thread keeps going...So here's another thought, not specific to the speakers the OP mentions. (Again, the real answer is undistorted, real full range loudspeakers/subs. Size does not matter, but actually achieving the above sentence IS certainly easier with physically larger speakers. At least at lower cost.) However, nobody SHOULD want big sounding speakers. I'll even go further. No one should want speakers to CREATE scale and sound big. A speaker reproducing stereo (almost by definition) should simply disappear! Yes, room reflections, speaker style, on and on are important, but none exclusively provide or control auditory image-size and scale. Let's back up. What is the recording? A piccolo solo? A floor to ceiling piccolo would be undesirable, even comical. A bumble bee buzzing around? Small, precise image flying around. Two of the DIRECT causes of image-size and scale are 1) Volume and 2) the Recording itself. If your speakers are making, "small things" big, you have a problem. Wiring a driver out-of phase and increasing the level (to that driver) could create an artificially huge image. Phil Specter's Wall of sound and many, many recording use the concept to successfully creat big, enveloping sound. Echo, reverb, phase are the tools engineers use daily to give your music scale! So the bottom line is: image size should be proportional to the recording. Your volume knob is your one real control--the louder, the larger things should sound. Magical recordings do it all: huge performance space, big scale, precise imaging, dynamic--the engineer gives you the majestic illusion of large sound. Thank him or her. Now go play with your knob. |
Two of the DIRECT causes of image-size and scale are 1) Volume and 2) the Recording itself.You forgot the most important one... The only one that matter and which is under your control save the volume control trivial remark: Controls of " timing" of early and late " reflected" wavefronts, and controls of the speakers characteristics by driving them through the pressure zones of your room with the addition of new pressure zones : Hemholtz resonators ORIENTED grid... There is more than trivial volume control here... And for sure if the recording engineer of the live event was a bad one, you will not replace the cd quality with acoustic... But this is trivial... |