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Corner loading full range speakers??????

Posted by chopper87@aol.com (A) on September 23, 2009 at 13:11:15

Guys/Gals, I am not, by any means, a master audiophile (stupid word anyway), but, I read Art Dudleys October, 2009 review of the ZU Essence speakers. His current speakers of choice are a pair of Audio Note AN-E/SPe HE's (what a mouth full). These may be absolutely wonderful speakers, I don't know. However, it is evidently required and necessary to CORNER LOAD these speakers to acquire their full musical potential!?
I don't get it. Corner Loading low bass frequencies I can understand and perform myself. But full range speakers reproducing the full range of instruments and voices? I get that some well designed and directional mid/high frequency compression based horns incorporated in speakers such as K-Horns are not terribly influenced by close corner wall proximity. But, I began to realize back in the early 1980's (a widely accepted revolution) that the further a full range speaker resided from the rear wall, and especially corners, the more naturaly life like it sounded. I have now done away with speaker boxes all together in lieu of open baffle speakers systems placed well away from rear walls and especially corners. This open baffle style combined with room boundry distances that allow natural sounding reflections to sound soooo natural and real, like a live performance. I have been to many, many live musical performances of all types, both professionally and as an audience member. Not once have I seen musicians grouped in a corner to enhance their performance via corner loading.
Mr. Art Dudley (Stereophile) often sings the praises of his AN speakers which are corner loaded. He often describes many attributes of these speakers performance that are enhanced by having them loaded into corners. In this same Stereophile issue Mr. Dudley does something really cool. He sponsors a home concert featuring, David Grier, for whom I am in awe of his musical talents. However, this musical genious performed this intimate concert from what appears to be the center of the room away from most room boundaries, especially CORNERS. I have never seen a single or a group of musicians all pilled one on top of the other in the corners of a performance venue to enhance their performances through artificial corner loading (accept at my local coffee house, poor guy)

So, is it fair to claim that a specific speaker is more meaty or robust (or just better sounding) when it is artificially and maybe unnaturally enhanced through corner loading when the competition speaker is positioned away from room bounary reinforcements offering a more natural reproduction?

I have apent almost thirty years (I am a slow learner) learning how to properly tune any perspective audio room for musically natural boundary absorption and reflection properties and that the correct speaker placement geometry almost ALWAYS involves placing speakers AWAY from room boundaries, especially corners.

Have I been wrong all these years? Should I simply purchase a pair of box speakers like the Audio Notes and shove them in corners to let the corners help make them what they otherwize are not?

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