True, and some to drop-D, which is another semitone lower. But - virtually no bass guitar is ever recorded without HPF about an octave higher, so what we hear is harmonics, implying the fundamental. The idea is to leave room for the kick drum, which sounds as a nonspecific thump in the bottom octave, and again is mostly defined by harmonics, going as high as 1k. It's done that way because engineers know most domestic systems have no pitch or level capability low down.
In practice when playing , and in most real music, you rarely go any lower than C1 = 32,7 Hz .
Hmmm, I thought that, when I had speakers that just covered that range. Except we have synth bass and percussion used widely on modern production. So when I bought better speakers, I realised I'd been missing stuff, the actual bass line of a fair few tracks, and the ambient foundation of many others.For most music , I would say its good enough to cover a flat inroom curve from 39 Hz -20000 Hz .
Exeptions are 32 feet pipe-organs , Grand piano, some electronic music and sound effects.
Some bass players downtune their bass to Eb on records = 39 Hz.
For me it's anything but battery.
To sustain 700w over let’s say 5h you would need another 2 towers made of batteries, weighing 60kg and costing another 6k.
One other thing I don't like, batteries are disgustingly dirty.
KEFs have wider dispersion than many other speakers and that plays well in surround speaker setup. So I would be inclined to say this is actually advantage. I think what you’re trying to say is imaging precision, to correctly and precisely place sounds. KEF uni-Q design is main driver behind this - LS60 are not losing this. I’m expecting them to be per usual analytical but with soundstage wider, more enveloping sound - which should make them even better in HT setup .
Tech moves forward and it gets greener. Give it another 5 years.
What does that mean? It's a full-range tower speaker, that operates way beyond its diminutive size, but it's clearly not a substitute for a real subwoofer or two, any more than a Reference 5 is.
A procedure easily made on MIDI keyboard synthesizers: using equal temperament and then tuning A4 @ 431.5 Hz will set D1 @ 36 Hz.For most music , I would say its good enough to cover a flat inroom curve from 39 Hz -20000 Hz .
Exeptions are 32 feet pipe-organs , Grand piano, some electronic music and sound effects.
Some bass players downtune their bass to Eb on records = 39 Hz.
More like a high-end alternative to plugging a couple of desktop PC speakers into your TV, I'd say - a step up from using the built-in speakers, but you're still stuck with a 2-channel downmix. These are firmly 2-channel only, with no pretence at multichannel. (But you could use them as 2 channels of a multichannel setup, by bypassing all their smart bits).
Correct me if I'm wrong but to the best of my knowledge any proper stereo downmix should by all means include the LFE. There is no reason not to, except sloppy programming.
