ericj
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No.
But smaller drivers are easier to control, while bigger drivers produce more bass.
When you decrease, or in this case, almost completely remove the seals around the driver, you lose a lot of bass.
Bass isn't like other sounds. midrange and treble are basically fast moving, and move in the direction you pointed them, more or less.
Bass is slow, and goes in every direction at once.
That means that the bass coming out the back of the driver is going forward as well, and cancels out some of the bass that was going toward your ear if there's nothing there to block, attenuate, or delay it - which is the case with most floats.
You can overcome this if you have a metric buttload of bass. That's how speakers do it. this is why some floats like the Ergo AMT have huge drivers, and why PMB tried making a dual-driver float.
It's why the top-end 'stats have really big drivers.
This is why i say that anyone who says they hear ample low bass out of a K1000 is either lying, deluded, or doesn't know what they're talking about. It's a bassy driver, but it's not that bassy.
Originally Posted by SVghost /img/forum/go_quote.gif pardon my newbish ness...but were talkin that these crazy lookin things things make +500$ cans sound like skullcandys?! Really? Is there ne bass whatsoever? Its startin to seem like as SQ go up, bass go down. (not good sq without it all IMO) |
No.
But smaller drivers are easier to control, while bigger drivers produce more bass.
When you decrease, or in this case, almost completely remove the seals around the driver, you lose a lot of bass.
Bass isn't like other sounds. midrange and treble are basically fast moving, and move in the direction you pointed them, more or less.
Bass is slow, and goes in every direction at once.
That means that the bass coming out the back of the driver is going forward as well, and cancels out some of the bass that was going toward your ear if there's nothing there to block, attenuate, or delay it - which is the case with most floats.
You can overcome this if you have a metric buttload of bass. That's how speakers do it. this is why some floats like the Ergo AMT have huge drivers, and why PMB tried making a dual-driver float.
It's why the top-end 'stats have really big drivers.
This is why i say that anyone who says they hear ample low bass out of a K1000 is either lying, deluded, or doesn't know what they're talking about. It's a bassy driver, but it's not that bassy.