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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The tapped horns: cons, pros and Sound

Post Subject: Maybe...lots of factors working together change the equationPosted by scooter on: 4/12/2011

Maybe, but from a practical perspective, theory can be pretty useless as the listening experience is the cumulation of many factors.

My experience (if you care) is that at lower frequencies, room modes get increasingly more difficult to address but time alignment is still critical. Without both factors being sorted (along with a reasonable knee that is well documented on this site), I never got decent low fq integration and I have spent hundreds of hours trying to sort this.

I am pretty lucky to find a sub location in my room best addresses room modes and is simultaneously time aligned. Moving either the sub or my listening position by less than 1" drastically impacts integration.

Unfortunately sub location is to my right shoulder and despite rapid roll off outside ~25hz and ~60hz when listening I can sometimes locate this thing but just barely. Time aligned in front of the listening room solved the location issue but room modes got more problematic so it stays where it is.

BTW maybe these are learned sensitivities just as a good harp player learns the subtleties of his or her instrument over the years.

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