Spot on, ideally, a surround should be seen and not heard and in the very best designs such as the late, great 2000B, no surround is the best 'surround'.Originally Posted by bowtie427ss
Yeah, one quick listen to a Barcelona still attached to its shipping pallet told me that the 411 was a SOTA 'sub' woofer as there was nothing even close to compare it to and why I placed an order for two that day.
Altec was adamant that it shouldn't be vented, but just for giggles I dropped one into an empty ~30 ft^3 net 10 ga steel/angle iron braced electrical starter controller cab I had access to anyway and after fiddling with the (now MLTL configuration) vent tuning a bit concluded that if the cab was acoustically large enough and tuned low enough referenced to driver Fs, a very high perceived (as opposed to technical) SQ alignment could be realized, i.e. basically a ~IB except with more upper bass gain without the 'color' of typical Altec, JBL or even the reference AR 3 AS loading Altec recommends.
WRT my personal speaker design philosophy, it forever changed how I view what constitutes a high SQ vented alignment and only fairly recently has it finally been embraced by the DIY community.
You're not alone, a majority of the consumer audio crowd's buying habits prove they increasingly do just this which in turn forces the majority of the recording industry to market junk that AFAIK, no amount of digital EQ can completely overcome it enough to make it 'near live' for a 'you are there' presentation.
Speaking of which, anyone know how these new vinyl albums of old Beatles, et al are 'voiced'? Same as original or......? Digitally noise reduced, BW and/or dynamic headroom increased or.......?
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