One thing I would be careful of on small, active speakers is the protection circuits. Sophisticated protection circuits thermally model (or even sense) the drivers and reduce the gain if one of them is getting near the limits. This can cause weird, signal dependent, image distortions when one of the speakers is driven harder and drops in gain (usually in the bass). Because the speaker doesn't just switch off, which you would hear, but simply goes a bit quieter, in an Ambisonic array of, say, 16 speakers, this doesn't shout out at you but just subtly distorts the image. Can be a really annoying and difficult to diagnose problem, especially when you haven't heard it before (been there, done that, got the T-shirt). With passive speakers, this doesn't happen - you just get the rattle from the cone hitting the endstops or the scrape of the melted voice coil against the sides of the air gap but at least the first of these warns you when you are near to damaging the speakers. Note that with small active speakers in particular, getting to 'normal' monitoring levels gets you right into the zone where the protection will keep cutting in and out :-(
Dave On 14 October 2015 at 18:20, Charles Veasey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We're upgrading our current 15.2 (Behringer) loudspeaker array. I'd like to > get more spatial resolution and higher quality speakers. Right now I'm > thinking about (32) Genelec 8010 and (2) Genelec 7050B subs. > > However, I have some concerns about the Genelec 8010s selling at only $350. > > Does anyone have experience with these speakers, or have advice for my > situation? > > thanks, > Charles > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20151014/902db591/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -- As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University Dave Malham Honorary Fellow, Department of Music The University of York York YO10 5DD UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20151015/788cb85d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
