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Worst measuring loudspeaker?

Erin's vertical measurements don't show the same off axis improvements.
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Looking at this, there's almost no pejorative subjective term you couldn't find in the chart somewhere, yikes.

I went to look at a picture of the speaker, and you wouldn't know it measures so crazy. The driver spacing is a tad loose, but nothing crazy, the cabinet is rounded over, the drivers look... promising or at least interesting anyway, and there seems to be a waveguide of some kind... but apparently they just eyeballed it...
 
BMR modal driver is superb in this respect.
They also beam significantly in the last octave and suffer like all small full range drivers from high multitone and doppler distortion, that's why in good designs from companies like Philharmonic and Nubert they are still just used as mid drivers.
 
Hardly the worst, but £6k for a two way ( standard colours £500 more for special) and stands at £1800!
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20kHz is just a distant memory….
Keith
 
My impression of the Klipschorn's sound is that the midrange has a shouty quality, and bass is thin and punchy, likely not going much below 50Hz. It's not my preferred sound.
 
Well they're certainly not a fan of bass, anyway.
Depends on the room. Mine's pretty helpful: around 18dB of boost at 40Hz. Without EQ, it makes small speakers sound big, and big speakers sound ugly.

It looks to me like they've designed with a "helpful" room in mind.


Chris
 
Depends on the room. Mine's pretty helpful: around 18dB of boost at 40Hz. Without EQ, it makes small speakers sound big, and big speakers sound ugly.

It looks to me like they've designed with a "helpful" room in mind.


Chris
+18dB at 40hz probably comes along with a similar notch at another nearby frequency though... room gain is definitely a thing but this speaker has F6 at 100hz or so... you can get bluetooth speakers the size of soda cans that compete with that.
 
Looking at the bottom end makes me think someone is a linn Kan fan.
The classic early to mid 80s Kan had the response rise from 80 - 1kHz by 10dB or more in a straight line (worse as the 80s went on and KEF altered the B110 driver), then a death dive in the lower kHz region to a tweeter recovery set to roughly the 500Hz level. If used with anything other than a period vinyl player and preferably a Linn LP12, a truly ghastly sound... (see the HiFi Choice scans on worldradiohistory as evidence...).
 
I'm pretty fortunate: no big notches, apart from ceiling bounce. Easily fixed by converting the speakers to 2.5-way with another woofer near the floor.


FWIW, that response curve suggests to me that the speaker will have some output/power-handling at 40Hz, while small bluetooth speakers have zero. The -6dB point isn't the only factor that should be considered.


Chris
 
Wilson tunetot?
I don't understand why some don't post them directly which is also good practice when taking images from other websites.

So a plus 4db at 20khz, is that all?
Well said, the loudspeaker (like most Vivid Audio ones, see also Stereophile reviews with directivity measurements) measures fine - just not cheap - so I don't agree it deserves to be posted in this thread.
 
I'm pretty fortunate: no big notches, apart from ceiling bounce. Easily fixed by converting the speakers to 2.5-way with another woofer near the floor.


FWIW, that response curve suggests to me that the speaker will have some output/power-handling at 40Hz, while small bluetooth speakers have zero. The -6dB point isn't the only factor that should be considered.


Chris
Well, unless you are blessed with fabulous even room gain like yours, I think F6 is typically more relevant than F20. ;)
 
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