A (hopefully not too dumb question):
Looking at this speaker and comparing it to say, the Revel M105, one thing that jumps out to me is that the sound power DI curves are relatively different, with the paradigm looking smoother overall. The Revel looks better on on-axis, listening window, and PIR, but has a much more pronounced dip in the sound power DI from 2-5 khz.
Could it be that paradigm is designing for this and/or prioritizing this over the on-axis response?
I lack the expertise to fully understand the trade-offs here (other than the relatively obvious more high frequency energy), but it seems like somewhere in there is an interesting discussion.
In my view Revel M105 looks much better voiced out of box compared to Paradigm Prestige 15B, should be clearly in below animation raw anechoic out of box verse a same EQ policy for both of them that Revel have baked their crossover filter string much closer to that ideal of whatever DI (directivity index curve) can dictate or say pull , probably it had cost multiple of expensive passive filter components to get there for Revel's engineers, in principle DI curve for Prestige 15B looks better than M105 but as Prestige 15B is voiced out of box it needs massive correction where M105 is so close to ideal and hard to improve using EQ..
Out of box Paradigm Prestige 15B verse Revel M105 static graphs side by side at same ratios should help study them..
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