Dette er spennende funderinger, og ikke helt rett å finne fasit.
Jeg tror ganske så sterkt på at produsenten av dine (og mine småttinger) høyttalere har noe inkorporert i selskapet som er lassevis med erfaring og overføring.
Sikkert en fanboygreie kan mange mene, og det er greit, men den mengden erfaring og kompetanse som er brukt for å konstruere dine høyttalere er svær.
Så tror jeg det blir en vurdering om hinderet med passive filtre overskygger fordelen med den kompetansen uansett? Vil det kraftige verktøyet du allerede har kunne dra en alternativ (custom, bespoke, DIY) høyttaler enda lengre? Har du tenkt på å teste aktiv drift på dine nåværende?
På repeat, jeg vet, men verden tåler en repetisjon av hva Otto von Dynaudio skrev som respons til Erins omtale og måling av Heritage Special.
mvh - virtuelt ballespark mottas om jeg kødder det til i tråden din
@MakkinTosken. Det er ikke meningen.
Thank you for the review Erin.
Although I am a little late to the party, I'd like to share our perspective on this review. I am not going to go through all the comments and answer directly, but if anyone has specific questions they'd like our input on, feel free to direct them to me, and I'll be happy to answer.
First off, I think Erin captures the performance of the speakers really well in this review. I would encourage anyone to not just look at the measurements, but pay attention to the description of what Erin actually heard. While we use what is likely the most advanced measurement facility in the world, we do not aim specifically to make the end product provide beautiful measurements. The aim is good sound - and the measurements is a tool to achieve that. Like Erin points out in the beginning of the review, sometimes a non-linearity that looks bad on the measurement isn't really much of an audible issue, and sometimes audible issues don't look like much in the measurements, unless you already determined by listening that it actually is one. In other words, measurements can explain what you heard, but it is very difficult to determine what you are going to hear, just by looking at the measurements.
Which is why Erin listens before measuring. I'd like to point out that none of the comments in the review are somehow revealing something we didn't already know about the speaker, before we put it on the market. There is nothing that Erin can measure that we can't, or haven't done. The main point I would like to point out here is that no loudspeaker, regardless of price, is perfect. I see a lot of assumptions that because a speaker costs a lot of money, the performance should be perfect. That is unfortunately far from the truth. All speakers are the result of a balancing act when engineering them. An example of this is the dip that is pointed out slightly above 1 kHz, which Erin correctly attributes to a "compliance issue" between cone and surround. However, the word "compliance issue" may lead some people to believe that this is an error, either in design or production. That is not the case, it is simply the result of deliberate design choices. It is very easy to design a woofer that doesn't have this dip. The problem is that the design changes you need to make to avoid the dip, leads to other issues that we believe are worse. It's not that we LIKE the dip, it is that we DISLIKE the compromises needed to avoid it. I hope this explanation makes sense to people.