Rmar
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Interesting interview with Roy Delgado from Klipsch. Part one of a two part interview, Roy talks about designing speakers to that produce sound as if you were at a live show.
Is the speaker market destined to go the way dishwashers? They all wash pretty good, and some even have chimes and shinny front panels. Are all speakers going to sound the same? If could happen if consumers and manufacturers fixate on the proverbial flat frequency response. Consider that China already has 30 % of the Klippel NFS installations as well as 25% of the international market for speakers. With that going for them, it's not hard to image a day when low cost, flat frequency transducers in a box dominate the American market. It's also easy to imagine the label itself "flat frequency response," adorning speaker packaging, especially from markets and industries abroad that want to fill our homogenous taste. If that's what we want, that's what they will get. I for one welcome and support R&D for alternative technologies and designs in the future, just as I do now. I am happy to see Klipsch keeping up its desire and commitment to explore something different than most everyone else.
I don't respect that design philosophy but I can respect good engineering to achieve it. I haven't seen too many examples of that from this particular company.On a general note, should we respect a design philosophy that aims to colour the sound in a deliberate way where the benefits of the colouration are subjectively valid and may appeal to a certain group of people?
If the designer uses good measurement tools and methods to back up their design choices, I think this should be respected.
Incorrect baffle step compensation, poor crossover selection/design, poor management of off-axis radiation, uneven frequency response, cheaply built cabinets with resonances galore...Is it the horns, or something else?
It’s apparently in the “Fudge”. Many people have a misunderstanding of what Fudge is.Is it the horns, or something else?
Fudge factor?It’s apparently in the “Fudge”. Many people have a misunderstanding of what Fudge is.
I will never understand statements like this.Just that a deliberately non-flat in room response is a valid design goal for the intended customer base.
Incorrect baffle step compensation, poor crossover selection/design, poor management of off-axis radiation, uneven frequency response, cheaply built cabinets with resonances galore...
Update: oh, and poor low frequency extension too. Oh, and vastly overstated sensitivit
It's valid in the sense of having an internally consistent rationale. Whether it's correct or not is another question.I will never understand statements like this.
Agree.I am an objectivist, but being an objectivist does not mean not having personal tastes that may be different from those of others.
Nothing wrong with it IMO. I personally feel most comfortable with capital-F Fidelity, but there's no rule against liking something else. I think the only problem arises when people try to pass off preference or conjecture as fact when it comes to coloration or lack thereof.However, when I want to enjoy some rock or electronic music at full volume, I go up to the room where I have two huge Klipsch RP280F towers, never measured the frequency response not even out of curiosity, no sub. I turn up the volume and enjoy them like a child, I really enjoy them, what's wrong with that?