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post #16 of 20
12/19/02 at 4:44am
Ok, can you elaborate, on exactly *how* the HT system sounded like **** in the nearfield condition?
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post #17 of 20
12/19/02 at 5:32am
That's kinda hard to explain. It's not like the sound lacks of details. It's like you listen to a song but you have no feeling of it. A simple word, DULL might do it. If you have a home theater system at home, you can do an experiment. Try watching DVD (Saving Private Ryan) with only 1 feet away from the TV for just 10 mins and pay attention to the sound. You can definitely feel the impact of it. You know the bass is reaching down below 30Hz. You know it's gonna excite you in some partiular scenes, but It isn't. The sound doesn't stimulate your nerves anymore. All you feel is loud and lifeless.
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post #18 of 20
12/19/02 at 6:01am
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Originally posted by nevermorez
One day, I was browsing through my CD collection with the music on. (the shelf was 5 feets away from my desk) I started noticing a huge improvment on audio imaging. I really thought that I was standing in front of a live band and listening to their performance for a moment. The effect was like looking through freshly polished glass that tiny sonic details and subtle reverberations became easy to hear and the position of every sound in 3-D space snapped into place.
I'm a little surprised you got that experience from 5 feet away. In my experience, Monsoons start sounding like $5 PC speakers at anything farther then 3 feet. On the flip side, when I am about 2 feet away from them and sitting with the sats facing my ear height, then I get what you experience. You sure it's not a case of where you happen to be positioning yourself relative to the sweet spot that flat panels require you to be in to sound their best, rather than it being HT vs. 2 channel?
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post #19 of 20
12/19/02 at 6:42am
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I'm a little surprised you got that experience from 5 feet away. In my experience, Monsoons start sounding like $5 PC speakers at anything farther then 3 feet. On the flip side, when I am about 2 feet away from them and sitting with the sats facing my ear height, then I get what you experience. You sure it's not a case of where you happen to be positioning yourself relative to the sweet spot that flat panels require you to be in to sound their best, rather than it being HT vs. 2 channel?
It's FPF-1000 (HT) vs. MM-2000 (4.1). I'm sure it's not that simple like 2 channel HT vs. 4 channel MultiMedia as you stated. I know flat panel system pretty well and that's why I bought FPF-1000.

Here is a link of FPF-1000:
http://www.monsoonpower.com/index_hometh.htm

MM-2000: http://www.monsoonpower.com/index_mmedia.htm
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post #20 of 20
12/19/02 at 3:46pm
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Originally posted by Pace
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Originally posted by Ramtha604
...The bass goes down to about 30 herz effortlessly even at wall-shaking volumes, mids and highs are always there in right proportions...
Bit odd, as the website says that the response goes down 3dB already at 45hz and down 10dB at 39hz...
Pace: Actually I think the impressions I gave and the M3-220's specs don't really contradict each other that much. Assuming the rolloff at 35 hz is somewhere around 15 db that means that at a total volume of 90 db subbass of 35 hz is still produced at a volume of 75 db. Contrary to sounds of higher frequencies subbass is felt, rather than heard, so even when a tone of higher frequency that is rolled off by the same 15 db would be completely "masked" by other sounds of higher volume at similar frequencies subbass with the same gernal lack of amplitude is still felt and "still matters".

Considering (or assuming) a 35 hz tone is rolled off by 15 db, that doesn't mean it cannot be reproduced effortlessly at all (at the -15db of course). It rather means that it's reproduced with the only audible distortion being the rolloff itself.

Disclaimer: The two former paragraphs are not necessarily true, they're my interpretation of my impressions.

I hope I'm not getting on anybodies nerves.

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***Originally posted by PinkFloyd
Get yourself a pair of magnetically shielded "Hi-Fi" speakers from a known manufacturer (B&W, Tannoy, Monitor Audio etc.) and arm yourself with a 20 W RMS amp...... they'll blow all these crappy plastic "computer speakers" into the bin where they belong!
PinkFloyd: Obviously your second post just represents your bias against "computer speakers" (beware the evil computer speakers!! active systems being design-theoretically superior to passive systems doesn't not make them being crap! any speakers including the word "multimedia" in their description are crap!) and is not of any informational value. Still it was an entertaining read, so thank you anyway.

Roland
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