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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker

Post Subject: Let's pretendPosted by Joe Roberts on: 2/9/2009

each channel is trying to use a minimum dimension of throat for a given beneficial frequency and consequentially max own radiation profile.

Aside from the fact that a narrow throat leads to higher distortion, this is a good practical approach for two reasons:

1) Extra wide dispersion does not sound unnatural, whereas overly narrow dispersion does. At least this is my perception.

2) You have to sit somewhere and I can't think of a good reason to not want as many frequencies reaching your chair as possible.

As for my critique of "imaging" I do reject the mindless way the term is used these days, particularly when musical perception is equated with visual perception and visual logic and terminology are used to discuss and evaluate system performance.

I propose the term "dimensionality" to replace the overburdened term "imaging" to get away from the visual implications. A sound recording is not a picture.

As for the more inclusive and detailed multi-layered deconstruction of perceptual reality as practiced by Harry Pearson and Romy, this is an interesting experiment in phenomenology, as long as it is not confused with or made to interfere with the experience of joyful music listening. It is unnatural to think about these things while listening to live music, so why switch when listening to a stereo?

Yes, there is a spatial dimension in live music as discussed 10 pages above, but if the comparison is taken seriously, any stereo is woefully deficient in scale, presence, and three-dimensionality compared to even small scale music let alone orchestra, and this insurmountable gap would/should lead most dedicated imaging freaks to eternal despair.

I think "imaging" as it is commonly known is a game of "Let's pretend."

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