| Re: Polar, not bears. [message #51214 is a reply to message #51213] |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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You can design a speaker with any directional pattern you like. Prosound speakers tend to be offered with narrower patterns than home hifi speakers. For example, you can find prosound speakers with 90°, 60° and even 40° patterns. Most home hifi speakers have wider patterns than that, since most are direct radiators. They also tend to have non-uniform directivity, since direct radiators begin to focus sound into a narrower spread as frequency rises, then at the crossover points the pattern widens again. I personally don't like the way that sounds, because it makes a non-uniform reverberent field, which sounds unnatural to me. The sound reflected back to you from the environment is tonally off. So I prefer a speaker that radiates uniform energy throughout the angle of coverage, preferably constant or at least uniformly collapsing without abrupt changes through the audio band.
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