Posted by akhilesh [ 129.244.120.36 ] on September 23, 2004 at 09:54:38:

In Reply to: Re: Methinks you miss the point posted by manualblock on September 23, 2004 at 07:40:35:

HI John & Others,
I can offer my insights, based on personal epxerience, as well as some reading. IMHO, adding a few passive components makes no difference audibly. Also, from a mental experiemnt standpoint, adding one resistor and an inductor to a circuit should not really make it less predictable.

In fact, the way I do it is: start with the amp, then build a speaker using T/S params, and a passive netwoork, so that the speaker mates well with the amp.

I have personally followed MArtin;s advice and used a passive network, and it improved my speakers considerably, with no sonic deteriorations that I could hear. You may want to try and find scientific studies that investigate if phase shifts (without frequency shifts) are audible. My own experience tells me: no.

IMHO the major determinants of speaker AUDIBLE performance are frequency curve, distortion and efficiency (with efficiency being a distant third, provided reasonable amplification is used).
-akhilesh

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