On May 15, 9:31=A0pm, Chris Hornbeck <chrishornbeckremovet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 21:53:02 -0700 (PDT), akbal <adg00...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >monitors that are accurate fall under what characteristics?
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> A wonderful, and perennial, topic in so many fields.
>
> In audio work, both the speakers and the room (and
> furni****ngs) matter. Plus all kinds of tiny details
> about location in the room of both the speakers and
> you. Rooms are so horribly bad (I exaggerate thee not
> the tiniest bit) that they completely dominate the
> sound that you hear indoors.
>
> We're only saved from a death spiral by the Holy
> Grace that the sound from loudspeakers arrives *first*.
> Then all the the other sound, having been bounced
> around in the room in, usually, unflattering ways
> arrives to pile on. Our internal wetware crunches
> this appropriately.
>
> An "accurate" monitor must have both an accurate
> direct "first arrival" sound and a well-planned
> model of "second arrival" sound, a model that
> involves its radiation pattern.
>
> Several different radiation pattern ideals have been
> attempted over the years, omni-directional, bipolar,
> line-arrays, etc. but the common factor has always been
> the difficulty of extending the pattern over the
> three decade response of human hearing. That's about
> ten octaves, so hard-n'-fast "rules" are quickly
> laughed away.
>
> All the best fortune,
>
> Chris Hornbeck
> "I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you,
> it'll be with a knife." -Louise Brooks
All the best fortune to you too.
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