That's a big one. Each of the two mics also captures both speakers, resulting in arbitrary comb filtering based on the distances between the four devices. Add to that a baffle step from a cabinet configuration you may not use.
Without giving it much thought a better approach could have been mounting each driver centre of a sheet of 4x8 ply, back of the baffle pointed into a damped corner or covered with stood-off heavy acoustic blankets, and recording in mono.
Without giving it much thought a better approach could have been mounting each driver centre of a sheet of 4x8 ply, back of the baffle pointed into a damped corner or covered with stood-off heavy acoustic blankets, and recording in mono.
Following Joppepelen on youtube convinced me that youtube recordings can give hints to as how speakers sound. -to my surprise
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This is true. Now that you mention it something similar also tends to happen near a crossover frequency. If we just focus on the part where both the woofer and tweeter are within about 20dB of each other for a 2nd order filter, that could be a span of 4 octaves, or a 16:1 frequency range, where interference effects would be at a maximum.
The raw tone of a driver can be changed with EQ. Is there a benefit to leaving it as it is?
Probably just convenience if you're lucky and stumble upon a driver with a starting point that's closer to what you want so it requires less work.
A systematic error in the recording chain or headphones (etc) could throw off the base level performance, but it seems unlikely to outright lie about the relative differences.
A systematic error in the recording chain or headphones (etc) could throw off the base level performance, but it seems unlikely to outright lie about the relative differences.
i had specially good expierence with relative performance, absolute performance is harder to tell since there are too many error points in youtube recordings (recording axis, youtube codec, microphones, playback system...) , it might be that your headphones color the sound in such way that you prefer a specific driver that would sound kinda **** in reallife when its a good match to your current frequency response
i use harman target for headphones (slightly modified) and flat (slightly tilted) on speakers... so im atleast somewhat certain that i get a minimal colored sound
the pluvia 7.2 hd may be just stood out for me because it has the smoothest/least highs and the most bass... its kinda hard to tell
i use harman target for headphones (slightly modified) and flat (slightly tilted) on speakers... so im atleast somewhat certain that i get a minimal colored sound
the pluvia 7.2 hd may be just stood out for me because it has the smoothest/least highs and the most bass... its kinda hard to tell