@richopp
ANYONE who plays a musical instrument and likes either horn or box speakers has a hearing impairment.
Well, congratulations on one of the silliest claims I've seen someone make here ;-)
I play musical instruments (e.g. acoustic/electric guitar, piano, bass, drums, used to play sax), my friends play musical instruments. I like box speakers. I'm not hearing impaired.
What in the WORLD were you actually trying to say that makes any sense?
Of course rooms influence the sound of a speaker, that's a given. But what does that have to do with your first statement about box speakers?Is EVERYONE hearing impaired? Or are you suggesting there is some specific type of speaker - not box or horn - that someone who "plays a musical instrument" should own? If so: don't beat around the bush: Name that type of speaker.
(And btw, your claim that "rooms" are more important to music than speakers is also misleading. Scientific work done by people like Floyd Toole have indicated that we are good at "hearing through" the acoustics of a room to the essential tonal character of a speaker, in tne midrange up. For the same reason we are good at identifying people's voices even when we move from room to room. This is why, on the research conducted by Toole, others using the NRC and Harmon Kardon's blind testing facilities, it turns out that a certain profile of neutrality on axis IS important because that's what we tend to pick up almost regardless of the room. A smoothly sloping down of off-axis sound helps improve the added room reflections, making such a design perform more predictably in a wider range of rooms).
