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A full range speaker?

Many claim to be, but how many can handle a full orchestra’s range?

That range is from 26hz to around 12khz including harmonics, but the speakers that can go that low are few and far between. That is a shame, since the grand piano, one of the center points of many orchestral and symphonic performances, needs that lower range to produce a low A fully, however little that key is used.

I used to think it was 32hz, which would handle a Hammond B-3’s full keyboard, so cover most of the musical instruments range, but since having subs have realized how much I am missing without those going down to 25hz with no db’s down.

What would you set as the lower limit of music reproduction for a speaker to be called full range?

 I’m asking you to consider that point where that measurement is -0db’s, which is always different from published spec's.
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pragmasi
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@mozartfan - I'm glad you found the chart useful.

There's also a comment somewhere above that sub bass isn't audible... sub bass is generally (perhaps not universally?) understood to reference the lowest two octaves which occupy 16-62Hz, most people can hear 20Hz and up.
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danvignau
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millercarbon.  Like you, I do think that inaudible upper frequencies matter; however, I have a hypothetical question:  Is it possible that we do not necessarily know that our brains perceive this, and could these frequencies be used for directional location, i.e. placement of instruments.
ggc
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The entire audible environment for Humans measure at 15Hz - 150kHz.
As pointed out - the ear drum cannot pick up those frequencies. Humans process sound utilizing more of the 30+K hair cells located within the ear which relay information to an extraordinary amount of nerve fibers within our nervous system that provide this info to the brain - which processes things like frequency, waveform, pressure rate, time and location - to what we actually hear. Everything counts, everything matters.

The only Speaker I know of that covers this range is The Lansche 8.2
15Hz - 150kHz.

a couple of other manufactures that measure in in the fuller range are
Marteen and Verity.
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pragmasi
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The entire audible environment for Humans measure at 15Hz - 150kHz.

Where do you guys get your information from?
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