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In the Thread: Two channels (tweeter and woofer) = a miserable evil?
Post Subject: The Sound of One Hand ClappingPosted by Paul S on: 1/11/2025
It is easy enough to hear what is going on with
speaker drivers if one listens to them while they are trying to play Big Music.
If we think of snapping one’s fingers, then clapping, then a crowd clapping, I
think we have an apt metaphor for one or two-driver speakers. Starting with the
old-style, good-sounding drivers, they ultimately struggle to put out enough coherent
energy to make “enough” convincing sound for Big Music, and this is particularly
true if they are asked to play a wide range of frequencies at the levels we are
talking about. It seems that the cost of efficiency with these drivers is that at
some point they are effectively “too sensitive”, with a very sudden rise of
audible distortion, to the point of unintelligibility. This is exacerbated by the fact that most amps
also fail to deliver their best when they are stressed, which they typically
are with Big Music, especially with large drivers. Of course, this only compounds audible problems as drivers strain to put out “all that information”. To make a real discussion of this
requires a much wider viewpoint, and a more free-wheeling and inclusive discussion,
since the roots of the problems we deal with here also concern more complex loudspeaker
systems.
Paul S
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