I've been thinking about replacing my Harbeth SHL5 in my living room with some speakers that measure better and are objectively higher fidelity but still small enough ala Harbeth size that they are not intrusive looking. These will be separate from the major big horn DSP assault I am taking for the dedicated listening room. So I've been naturally looking at D&D and Kii.
I came across this on their website:
Kii’s mission for the THREE was to break the sonic mould of compact speakers. Powerful small speakers with deep bass have been around for a while now but none so far sounded like a big speaker. The THREE is built to fix that.
Basic acoustics tells us that a classic box speaker only directs sound towards the listeners from the midrange up while bass frequencies are radiated all around. The frequency where this change happens depends on the size of the box front (the “baffle”). The smaller the baffle, the higher the frequency at which bass is still radiated all around instead of directed towards the listener.
That in short is why big speakers have so far delivered much more precise timing and detail in the bass and low mids than small speakers: the room gets less chance to interfere. And that is what Kii has now managed to make a compact speaker do.
I'm curious to know what members thing of this paragraph. Scientifically sound or clever marketing?
I might have started a thread on this here early on when the forum started or someone else did. Having speakers that can reproduce the scale of a large orchestra as well as big tone of a concert grand has been one of my goals. The best speakers I have heard do this I described here. Now those speakers would go against what Kii are describing above as the bass would have been more directional than what they are referring to as big box speakers, (I assume they mean speakers like large Wilsons or Magicos, etc) yet that horn system was still the best at creating a "big speaker sound" and the closest I have heard to accurately reproducing the size of something like a full orchestra Mahler symphony or a well recorded concert grand from the further away mics in Carnegie Hall.
I came across this on their website:
Kii’s mission for the THREE was to break the sonic mould of compact speakers. Powerful small speakers with deep bass have been around for a while now but none so far sounded like a big speaker. The THREE is built to fix that.
Basic acoustics tells us that a classic box speaker only directs sound towards the listeners from the midrange up while bass frequencies are radiated all around. The frequency where this change happens depends on the size of the box front (the “baffle”). The smaller the baffle, the higher the frequency at which bass is still radiated all around instead of directed towards the listener.
That in short is why big speakers have so far delivered much more precise timing and detail in the bass and low mids than small speakers: the room gets less chance to interfere. And that is what Kii has now managed to make a compact speaker do.
I'm curious to know what members thing of this paragraph. Scientifically sound or clever marketing?
I might have started a thread on this here early on when the forum started or someone else did. Having speakers that can reproduce the scale of a large orchestra as well as big tone of a concert grand has been one of my goals. The best speakers I have heard do this I described here. Now those speakers would go against what Kii are describing above as the bass would have been more directional than what they are referring to as big box speakers, (I assume they mean speakers like large Wilsons or Magicos, etc) yet that horn system was still the best at creating a "big speaker sound" and the closest I have heard to accurately reproducing the size of something like a full orchestra Mahler symphony or a well recorded concert grand from the further away mics in Carnegie Hall.