kixxit
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What I want are monitors for my living room that might sound decent beyong a 1sqf "sweet spot", that may just so happen to be active.
Do most active monitors have good off-axis dispersion? I was always under the impression that they were fairly focused due to use in near field applications.
I did watch the posted vid on the SE Electronics Egg 150 monitors, but their setup isn't much different than passive monitors - although I'm sure their amp is built specifically for the Eggs. I am wondering how scalable their setup is - 5.1, etc.
Any recommendations, or am i going to have to dredge thru spec sheets? I'll probably do it anyway of course - just looking for a good place to start.
Music stores such as Guitar Center are great for auditioning. They usually have all monitors set up in the same room and since you don't have to worry about separate amps etc, they're easy to compare.
Do you want a speaker to spread sound in all unwanted and unintended directions thereby creating spurious reflections and destroying the stereo soundfield?
What I want are monitors for my living room that might sound decent beyong a 1sqf "sweet spot", that may just so happen to be active.
It has always been my believe that wide dispertion is a positive thing. Moreover, manufactures take great effort to achieve this. Having reflections is one of the main advantages speakers have over headphones. In other words: 'the band' is playing in your room. With bad off-axis response the reflections are actually different from the reflections a 'singer' or 'guitar' would create, messing op the imaging and the use of room-acoustics. Therefore speakers with good despertions have a wider and more precise stereo-image. And ofcourse you will have less of a 'sweet spot' nor trouble with turn-in.
Band-tweeters, or membrane-tweeters, often have very good despertion characteristic. Active speakers with such a tweeter probably won't have much placing issues. That's a bit of a wild guess. ELAC has released a new active monitor which should be very suitable for music. I am bit of an ELAC fan myself so you should take that into consideration;P.
I really appreciate the input. One of the great things about a stereo setup is the ability to share the music, and move around a bit while doing so. I already have a HT setup - Deftech Mythos STS/Ten (center)/GemXL (surround) but no dedicated room so the actives will be for 2 channel listening only. Hitting the ELAC website now....
Ok...do you really need that many product lines? Time to do so me research!
Since sound is a wave, front and rear speakers will actually work against each other.
Depending on placement, timing, etc - opposed drivers FACING each other, could act like a push/pull system, and do some odd things. But that typically wouldn't be an issue across a room, and even 1 degree of toe in would eliminate any problems from that interaction entirely.
Huh?
That's like saying the front left and front right are working against each other.