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Don't compare free air floor speakers against headphones.
For headphones you have earpads around your ear, blocking sound from the outside of the transducer to reach your ear. Hence no phase cancellation.
For speakers there are just 5cm around the corner of the chassis, meaning that phase cancellation happen. Which is why electrostatic floor speakers need to be large to produce lower frequencies, or have a dynamic driver down there.
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Don't compare free air floor speakers against headphones.
For headphones you have earpads around your ear, blocking sound from the outside of the transducer to reach your ear. Hence no phase cancellation.
For speakers there are just 5cm around the corner of the chassis, meaning that phase cancellation happen. Which is why electrostatic floor speakers need to be large to produce lower frequencies, or have a dynamic driver down there.
