Granted, the Isobariks were interesting (I remember hearing them at Innovative Audio when they were in Brooklyn), but I guess it's not so much that maybe an RC shouldn't be used in certain cases, but whether there's enough information for omni (just to use an efficient term) speakers in a non-ideal listening envornment to be able to make the same kind of corrections as that seen in Chinanico's post.
I figure maybe, for a speaker that is a direct radiator with a narrow dispersion pattern, what is being picked up by the mic is the sound characteristic be generated mostly by the speaker as a forward firing source. It seems like it would be easier to then predict what it will do when you convolve the response to create a filter. With an omni, a much smaller percentage of what the mic is picking up is coming from a direct firing part of the system, and much more from reflected sound that cannot be directly controlled by changing the driver response. It's not that RC won't work, but it seems to me that might explain why it may not work as well. There would seem to be a more direct change->effect prediction capability with direct firing speakers. -- tonyptony ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tonyptony's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35615 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
