Newman
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@Glasvegas @fredstuhl “Critical listening distance” is not applicable to the home environment and not an indicator of anything useful for home listening. You can ignore that chart, as far as choosing your home speakers is concerned.
KH120 plus 2 subs has no deficiencies worth considering for home use at 2-4 metres listening distance. Your challenges will be to set it up well, treat your room in a balanced manner, and EQ the bass up to about 250 Hz. Set the bass level (not the shape) ‘to taste’, since research indicates that personal preferences vary most in bass level. Even 1 sub can succeed very satisfyingly for a single listening position.
Caveat: there is no accounting for what your personal mental filters/cognitive biases do in sighted listening conditions. The sky‘s the limit. If your personal filters force you, for example, to hear boxed-in sound from any speaker with a cabinet, then that’s that. And I would not discourage you from acting on it. But the point is that you will have nothing instructive to say to anyone, anywhere, except yourself, on that point. But the audio forums are awash with people, with helpful hearts and in all sincerity, saying “it sounded like this to me” as if they were talking instructively about sound waves, when in fact they aren’t. It’s no wonder, since the brain is hard-wired to tell us that perceptions are always describing objective real external phenomena, for survival. The educational challenge, for us in this hobby, is to come to terms with this in a way that stops us from accidentally and sincerely misleading one another, while still being an amicable community of people sharing a hobby and helping one another.
cheers
KH120 plus 2 subs has no deficiencies worth considering for home use at 2-4 metres listening distance. Your challenges will be to set it up well, treat your room in a balanced manner, and EQ the bass up to about 250 Hz. Set the bass level (not the shape) ‘to taste’, since research indicates that personal preferences vary most in bass level. Even 1 sub can succeed very satisfyingly for a single listening position.
Caveat: there is no accounting for what your personal mental filters/cognitive biases do in sighted listening conditions. The sky‘s the limit. If your personal filters force you, for example, to hear boxed-in sound from any speaker with a cabinet, then that’s that. And I would not discourage you from acting on it. But the point is that you will have nothing instructive to say to anyone, anywhere, except yourself, on that point. But the audio forums are awash with people, with helpful hearts and in all sincerity, saying “it sounded like this to me” as if they were talking instructively about sound waves, when in fact they aren’t. It’s no wonder, since the brain is hard-wired to tell us that perceptions are always describing objective real external phenomena, for survival. The educational challenge, for us in this hobby, is to come to terms with this in a way that stops us from accidentally and sincerely misleading one another, while still being an amicable community of people sharing a hobby and helping one another.
cheers