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RE: How to get good soundstaging for off-centerline listeners

My claim is that the type of speakers and setup I propose outperform conventional speakers for listeners outside the normal sweet spot in both soundstaging and tonal balance, and (as I hope I've shown) there's actually some science behind that claim. If my wording implied that my claim extened to the sweet spot itself, I apologize - that was not my intention.

In the sweet spot itself, it could go either way... but I do believe that long-term, fatigue-free listening even in the sweet spot is well served by minimizing the spectral discrepancy between the first-arrival and reverberant sound. And coherence is well served by matching up the radiation patterns in the crossover region.

Best imaging for one would probably be in a nearfield setup, where the direct sound dominates, regardless of speaker type.

Duke


Me being a dealer makes you leery?? It gets worse... I'm a manufacturer too.

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