Between measurements and sound

[RandomEar]

I've heard of a bass-reflex design called the "labyrinth" type. Does that fall into this category as well?

How you achieve more bass is not relevant, as long as other qualities like distortion don't suffer.

Will the bass extension affect the overall sound of a speaker,or it simply brings a change in bass?

Well... overall sound is the sum of all parts. So yes, it will sound different.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Great speakers are shoebox shaped designs with plastic waveguides that achieve strong directivity performance when measured with a Klippel near-field scanner. Yet many major manufacturers continue to over engineer their products to sustain the “snake oil” side of the industry, like the example below
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All known Gastropoda just love, those speakers.

 

[DNCAgain]

Also the sound changed rapidly with slightly off axis.

Does that suggest that the difference you heard maybe resulted from off axis?

 

[SSS]

Does that suggest that the difference you heard maybe resulted from off axis?

I just heard that the speakers had strong direction dependency which means that the best sound was just only on axis. Whether there were differences between speaker models in that respect I do not remember. Of course I don't know how these models measure with Klippel tools. Models were from Magico, Geithain, Wilson and others. Each model had different sounding to me.

 

[Axo1989]

Great speakers are shoebox shaped designs with plastic waveguides that achieve strong directivity performance when measured with a Klippel near-field scanner. Yet many major manufacturers continue to over engineer their products to sustain the “snake oil” side of the industry, like the example below
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Not a snake, but a cephalopod (and not a bad loudspeaker, so not a great example). Otoh I'm glad Genelec don't have plastic waveguides (nor necessarily shoeboxes).