I agree with Fons two statements. i probably made my argument too absolute. I did suggest a preference for full range speakers in all locations when possible and practical. But I also wanted to suggest the utility and quality possible in a well designed bass management system. Interesting thread.
jim On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:57:33PM +0100, dw wrote: > > > The idea of listening for pleasure to bass sounds without overtones or > > transients conjures up an image of a twitcher tracking down a rare, > > three legged sparrow. The public just don't understand.. > > It should be clear from the context that the little experiment I > reported on was not done for pleasure but to test if such sounds > could be localised or not when reproduced correctly. > > That test in turn was not done for pleasure, but only after some > people claimed (wrongly and without any convincing argumentation) > that one could not localise such sounds. > > Consider the following two statements: > > 1. Correct directional reproduction of very low frequencies is > not essential as in almost all real-life signals there will be > overtones or other higher frequency energy associated with the > LF source, and these will provide adequate localisation. > > 2. Correct directional reproduction of very low frequencies is > not necessary as we can't determine their direction anyway. > > I could probably agree with (1). But not with (2). Now you could > argue that if (1) is true then it becomes irrelevant if (2) is > correct or not. That is no longer the case if (2) is put forward > to justify the defects of some reproduction system, as was done. > Used as such it is a false and misleading argument. > > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -- Jim Moses Technical Director/Lecturer Brown University Music Department and M.E.M.E. (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110610/74012c44/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
