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Just added a monthly donation to your PayPal as well. It is not much but hopefully it will add up through the months and years.
I was wondering who that was so I could thank them. So, Thank You!
Just added a monthly donation to your PayPal as well. It is not much but hopefully it will add up through the months and years.
@hardisj
A very interesting observation you had was your preference for how the speakers sound between your 2 rooms. Did you happen to have measurements comparing the 2 rooms? Apologies if you've already done so somewhere. Might be highly instructional to see how R3 reacts with a live vs dead room.
Are you providing the download for the SPIN data?
It kinda does when looking at the 0-90° horizontal and vertical plots in detail.
And in that same vein, the only thing in the data that might make sense as to a culprit is the expansion of directivity around this point. This could simply be coincidence.
If you noticed, I updated my horizontal and vertical SPL plots to be colored. I used your color scheme (as best I could), as well.
Indeed. And if you look at that bullet you quoted, the next sentence was:
I gotta quit browsing ASR when just waking up.
@hardisj Great review, thanks. Are you able to do multi tone IMD testing? I don't know if it would show anything interesting, I'm just curious.
and that harshness around 2500Hz is smoothed out
Out of curiosity, did you notice this before my review? I'm just curious if I'm the only one because I wasn't sure if it was the room or the speaker.
Out of curiosity, did you notice this before my review? I'm just curious if I'm the only one because I wasn't sure if it was the room or the speaker.
I was wondering, is the spinorama not 10 dB to wide? It now looks like it goed from 30-90dB, which is 60 dB in total. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought it would have to be 50 dB wide on the vertical axis if following the CTA standard.
I don't really mind it, although this might get a bit more squished
For both the D&D 8C and the KEF R3 you mentioned that they sounded better in your living room than your home theater room.
I would like to add that, looking at the bass response a 10dB room mode at around 60Hz, not uncommon, would make the response better in room, rather than worse, this could well be why the R3 sounded so much better in @hardisj living room than the HT, and will, IMO have much less need of room compensation that any speaker which doesn't have this sort of response.I believe this is to compensate for room gain. Most people still do not use room compensation software and having the bass go to a low frequency but rolled off allows plenty of bass in room without it getting overblown in most people's system.
I consider it to be clever practical engineering personally.