No fullranger will be "enabled" for nearfield...i explained the reason why in my previos post. It's hopeless, nearfield sucks whatever the drivers...
Thanks Graaf.
What distance calculator spat out actually matches a lot with what i've come to empirically.
What distance calculator spat out actually matches a lot with what i've come to empirically.
Room treatment for gigantic suckers in gigantic rooms and that is money well spent.
And Cardas speaker placement ofc
And Cardas speaker placement ofc
At home sweet home? Almost ever...😉
The 60º equilateral triangle is what really rules, imho... The rest a simple consequence of distance from speaker to speaker. Might be half a meter on a dsktop home studio, might be over 3m in a large living room...Even heard guys praising the virtues of nearfield monitors in the middle of a large living room/loft...
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I think there's a difference between adding good sound to a family living environment (how else do we encourage young people to upgrade from ear buds) and trying to create a living environment in a sound studio. To look at some of the photographs of various hi-end set-ups the latter is more in play. When you can control all the factors in creating such a space of course you can go crazy with big horns or whatever. In my view, the challenge is the former, the creation of good quality spacious sound within a constrained living environment. It's the harder path to travel, but has much more potential to advance the art and reputation of hi-end audio before it withers further on the vine of modern convenience. It has to work with the room, reflections and diffractions. It has to work near-field/medium-field because that's the reality for most living spaces. It's a worthy challenge. It has to be answered with small speakers. To work well in near field you can't have different drivers spread out such that it takes too far of a listening distance for the sound to integrate as a whole. Big multi-way towers are fine for the man-cave/HT but not for the average listening - living space. Small speakers are needed. Diffraction (I'm trying to get back on topic....) becomes relevant with small speakers.
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Maybe not as big a challenge as you might think in the normal living room since a bit of everything re reflective surfaces, absorption, scattering etc is a good thing and easily achieved with all the furniture and clutter of modern life
I think the challenge is understanding why most domestic rooms are friendly sounding enough, except maybe when the source is a (pair of...) loudspeaker(s).
