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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL

Post Subject: Listening from outside the roomPosted by guy sergeant on: 10/15/2008

I'd say there were fundamental issues in music reproduction which need to be got right (specifically within the design/implementation of the transducers) before worrying about the presentational niceties that omnidirectivity appears to address. Issues of tone for example which stem from the recreation of a plausible dynamic scope.

Standing outside a room where a group of musicians are playing (a string quartet, a piano trio) there are aspects to the sound heard that convey its meaning, the merit of the performance and a sense of realism far more than the exact position of each individual within the room. Even stereo is in many ways simply a contrivance which doesn't inevitably guarantee the satisfactory recreation of the illusion or necessarily convey the message within the music any more effectively.

None of these speakers seems to address those more fundamental issues first.

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