Magico - Wide vs. Narrow

@tomic601

Cardboard is not a good speaker baffle material. Cardboard is very noisy in and of itself. Just putting my mouth near a piece of cardboard and humming lowly makes the cardboard vibrate like crazy, adding all kinds of resonances.

Just a side note, I was trying to replicate an experiment where you stretch a balloon tight over the top of a glass to make a trampoline surface that a ball will bounce on for a long time. That didn’t work out very well. But what it did do well was add a lot of reverb to my voice if I talked in to it. The kids were highly amused. So stretched balloons also do not make good speaker baffles.

Maybe something more dead, like a piece of carpet tile or mass loaded vinyl would be better for the experiment.

carpet is a lousy broad band absorber… but run your experiment, i’ve just got a blackbelt in design of experiments…

Ive also got a bunch of Panzerholtz 

The wings on the infinity had rear firing tweeters and they did that as well on the genesis 200 model.my new fr 30 has a rear firing tweeter.happy holidays and stay healthy

@mark200mph wrote:

"The wings on the infinity had rear firing tweeters and they did that as well on the genesis 200 model.my new fr 30 has a rear firing tweeter."

Ime a well-integrated rear-firing tweeter can contribute to "being able hear the recording space". 

Incidentally, the superb Snell Type A-III mentioned by @erik_squires also had a rear-firing tweeter, if I recall correctly.

Incidentally, the superb Snell Type A-III mentioned by @erik_squires also had a rear-firing tweeter, if I recall correctly.

@audiokinesis  is correct, of course.  As I recall it could be switched on and off.  In my case my audition occurred with the speakers flat against the wall though.