Newman
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against the Ascend Sierra Towers they sounded "fuzzy" compared to the crystal clear Sierra Towers
Firstly, a dipole loudspeaker does not disperse sound from all sides. One of its strengths is that it does not do so.a sound that can't possibly be that clear as it's being dispersed from all sides of the speaker
Secondly, even if a speaker was doing so, the ‘clearness’ would be highly dependent on your wall treatments and room character.
Thirdly, your report of ‘fuzzy’ sound of the LRS is a big indicator that you fell foul of its hyper-sensitive vertical directivity, which Amir measured:-
Amir himself was initially fooled, by getting the measurement axis slightly wrong, which created a frequency response like this:-
The above frequency response probably sounds very much like the report that you gave above, ‘fuzzy’ or lacking clarity. This would explain your experience better than notions that it disperses sound “from all sides”.
If you had gotten the listening axis exactly right, you would have experienced the on axis FR in black, below. Although still a touch lacking in the 1-4 kHz range, it would not be enough to sound blatantly ‘fuzzy’, IMO.
I gather that you have returned the speakers now, so you don’t have the opportunity to have another listen while making small fine tuning adjustments to the tilt angle that you are listening at, until you are listening in the super-narrow beam shown in red in the top illustration above.
cheers
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