I guess this is is just a hypothetical question since most rooms in your typical home could not handle "full range" orchestral reproduction. Bass waves are really big and even placing four bass traps in the corners of a typical room that would be given over to the audiophile in the house is not going to be adequate. It might be interesting to figure out what speaker frequency range works best in a typical home to reproduce as close as possible a full orchestra and what minimum size room would you need. Assume that the room can be treated for sound, but realistically that probably won't be the largest rooms in most homes, such as the living or family room, so four subwoofers would be out, maybe two at the most. How far down does one really need to go or for that matter, does one really need a pair of super tweeters to get satisfactory results?
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.
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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bache365 posts07-18-2021 6:28pmsorry very bad performance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interesting. A speaker has to stand or fall on its own. A EQ might upset the natural performance of a driver. The Vox **Full range** was far from *full*, Whereas the davidLouis 4 incher, is truly FULL, rolls off ,,well actually there is no weakness in rolloffs, . Goes nice and low and extends nice and high. Only in the say 1200-2k range there is a slight edge when orchestra gets loud. But in jazz, this lil full range really has some nice *warmish* (Body, substance) voicing. Not colored, not fatiguing. Female voice, very accurate. Its only when a orch is in full swing the upper mids get a bit stressed. But certainly *livable*. **Every wide band will sound different from another I tried 5 different ones, and found this DavidLouis 4 incher offering nice things in such a small package. The other 5 had issues. Dayton Audio 3 inch Diatone 6.5 inch AIYIMA 5 inch Lii Fast 8 (old model) Voxativ = Not all wide bands are the same. |
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