Don’t despair (just ignore). He does this nonsense with absolute regularity in every Neumann and Genelec thread since years. Although people have explained it over and over again, still he comes back.
that's how he paves his way to speculate about speaker cabinets. It starts slowly.
Dude relax
Yeah I scheme all day and all night how to pave my way to speculate on speaker cabinets
I use 150s on a desktop because I was looking to maximize extension without the need for a sub, but it sounds like the distance between them is shorter than it would be for you. Mine are 45" apart when measuring the distance between tweeter centers. At a 1 meter listening distance, obviously the further apart you place the speakers, the further away you will be from an equilateral triangle. Beyond that, I find no audible issues with the 150s at a tinge over 1 meter, particularly after calibrating them with MA 1. If you don't mind a sub, the KH 120 IIs + KH 750 will give you more placement flexibility and more extension.
If it's like the kh150, they're using a 48dB/oct crossover (which is technically possible with analog active, though the phase rotation would be wild and require quite a bit of correction via all-pass filters).
You do have all three or four of those possibilities. I don't think there is a bad option among them. All would work from one meter. Check out the recommended listening distances on the Neumann website. I use my KH 150's, KH 310's and KH 120's / II's from 1.1 to 1.3 meters. Remember that all of these monitors are designed by Neumann as nearfield studio monitors. Close is good. For one thing, it minimizes the effects of room acoustics. Almost all of the sound you hear is coming directly from the monitors - and not room reflections. A lot of people do not realize this. It is a big deal.Thanks Teashea, I think it was your post I was referring to. I listen to all sorts of music. unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge to know how low each genre/instrument might get to.
It's a tricky one. At least if the 120's don't go low enough, there's always the KH 750, but then would the 150's be better..... Then there's always the 310's. I'm assuming these would be no good from a seating position of 1 metre?
I think you are correct regarding the important of DSP in the KH 120 II's and the KH 150's. While Neumann does what it can to maximize mechanical issues, DSP really adds a lot to control things.
KH120II has slightly better extension and output in low frequencies. This is the biggest difference in between them.
KH120II has also better controlled vertical directivity:
Overall KH120II is a better design. I'd like to speculate that KH120II uses very high order digital crossovers to establish such controlled directivity around the crossover frequency and higher order filters which are not possible to implement with analog filters(extreme cases ignored).
Always thought they use Seas Tweeters ... but that doesn't look like anything Seas?It's not a metal fabric - it's a hard dome. It shows the same ultrasonic behavior as any other non-beryllium metal dome, ie breakup mode in the mid-high 20s of kHz. I believe they stick a piece of fabric or something on the dome to contain the breakup modes some...
If somebody would be enterprising enough to take that grille off the tweeter (looks like it comes off with the screws on the mounting flange?), we could know for sure what's going on.
Is this a sales room?
It is a legitimate question. Unlike almost all other studios, I like to use separate workstations. I do not want everything consolidated into one stations. Ie. for recording, for mixing in the box, for using a console and most recently a separate SSL equipped mixing/mastering station. So for each station I need separate monitors.
