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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: The NXT panels are a few dB downPosted by stevie7V on: 12/2/2007
drdna wrote:
While I think a resonating speaker can add its own musicality to a reproduction, it is clearly adding harmonic distortion, etc.  It may be pleasant, but you run the risk of needing differently tuned speakers for each type of music, maybe?  I am always cautious about "love at first listen" since usually it is just a novel type of distortion my ear hasn't been accustomed to yet.  This is how most audiophiles end up running from one new product to the next
NXT panels are inferior to good moving coil loudspeakers and, I suspect, always will be.  However, my understanding is that in this particular application, the NXT drivers are a few dB down compared with  the conventional speakers.  Therefore the effect on the 'directly radiated sound' is small, although the very different dispersion characteristics of NXT mean that the effects on the 'ambience' of the system is greater.  If the combined system is designed correctly, you shouldn't be able to hear any extra harmonic distortion.

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