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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: 80dB now but still needs improvement at 1KHz
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 08:40:02 +0000
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

[...]
> Speakers and room acoustics...
> I have some, everything is different, should be.
> I liked the Quad electrostats, 

You needed a lot of space and good room acoustics to get the best out of
them.

>just have some chaep bass-reflex boxes now.

Bass-reflex looks good on paper but sounds horrible.  The human ear
hears the 6dB/octave roll off as 'natural' but with an unnatural 'honk'
superimpose on it.  Bass transients are coloured by the honk and give
hang-over effects.

It may not matter for synthetic pop music, but bass-reflex speakers can
give misleading results if they are used for monitoring acoustic music
recordings.

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