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In the Thread: Horn speaker with dipole bass?
Post Subject: Dipole bas is for lazy and deaf people.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/7/2010
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I do not exactly understand what you are proposing at DiyAudio site. I have generally an attitude against dipole radiation, and particularly in bass. There is a common believe among audio people that dipole bass has advances, there was a lot of said and written about it and there were many objective (perfectly verifiable) rationalizations brought to support this point of view. I am familiar with all of them and I also hear a number of good dipole bass systems. I do feel that the people who support dipole bass are clueless and do not know what is important and what is irrelevant. Their arguments that dipole bass is able to self-EQ the room’s modes sound laughable to me. The dipole bass, with very characteristic water-down texture never was sounding right to me. This is one of the reasons why I never appreciate the open baffle designs….
In contrary, at higher frequencies dipole might work fine, but no in bass.
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