i am in the "only sweet spot sounds good" team, so on axis for me is above all
You still hear the off-axis response in the form of reflections, whether you are in the sweet spot or not. So that's not how it works.
i am in the "only sweet spot sounds good" team, so on axis for me is above all
You still hear the off-axis response in the form of reflections, whether you are in the sweet spot or not. So that's not how it works.
You still hear the off-axis response in the form of reflections, whether you are in the sweet spot or not. So that's not how it works.
Yep. Off-axis response matters
I listen to music and watch the news on TV off-axis all of the time. If the off-axis sound of my speakers in my rooms were all horrible/bad, I would rather turn everything off relegating myself to listen to the HVAC or fan and fridge noise most of the time while at home.
not i my case since I am in the "treated first reflections walls" team also
As far as I understand, this doesn't actually kill reflections unless you made your room into an anechoic chamber. It just reduces them. I would guess an extremely poor off-axis response is still audible with treatments, just less so. Depending on the treatments, of course, and the frequency range they affect.
they were installed using ETC. also I use studio monitors which are designed to have narrow dispersion. that's actualy the main diference between normal speakers and monitors. monitors are designed with treated walls in mind
But that is a generalization... you underestimate our ear-brain system's ability to adapt to different environments and acoustic spaces. I do understand that some people with hearing damage or age-related hearing impairment aren't able to adapt anymore as easily, finding most reflections as being more confusing and annoying than helpful/contributing to the overall auditory experience.
I dunno what we're talking about anymore! You bought speakers based on their constant, narrow directivity. So you do care about off axis response, because that is literally an example of off axis response mattering.
B wins over A for me, having recently spent time looking at such charts and choosing new Loudspeakers.
B has better directional control, a nice wide dispersion which is what I wanted in my family room. I also prefer the look of the bass roll off, assuming the hump is the typical Stereophile artifact.
I'm not saying I could blindly identify the speakers in any given order though!
Looking at it again, might be that A has a larger diameter woofer than B, thus the dispersion not as good a match near crossover?
How bout C?
Resonances?