A controversial takes on low cost speakers with a lesson...

I have compared lower budget with mid fi. They sound good. For many people, good enough. However, in my opinion, the quickness, the rhythm, the bass control, to keep detail in a way that it's just not music, but a remarkable experience every time you listen is not there like it is with the more expensive Hi Fi.

@asvjerry 

Jerry, you are a wordmaster in my book. 
 

The three cheek notion captured my attention. Interesting and mildly unsettling, but always entertaining.

 

Thanks for keeping it light. As a recovering high-strung crybaby (still on double secret probation) I need all the help I can get!

Shine on, Jerry.

asvjerry is awesome

If you don't have the bass right you've got nothing. Everthing else is secondary.

This can easily be put to the test.  Disconnect your left & right two way speakers but leave your sub hooked up and listen to a track you like and then do vice versa (unhook sub and leave the two ways connected).  Personally, I would prefer the second option.

For physical acoustics:

Any presence of a phantom speaker   phantom Speaker a +speaker A  and speaker B + phantom speaker b is the result of distortion caused by "speaker boundary interference effect" as well explained by my first acoustician video...

 

 

For psycho-acoustics:

We have 2 ears : then the speaker A will create by time delay for each ear a phantom speaker image a and the same for speaker B and his image b for the  other ear...

 

 

Then the phantom image of speakers is not only the result of acoustical physical conditions but result in a stereo system by the way each ears will perceive each speakers with a time delay...

 

These facts illustrate how complex is small room acoustics and i used these facts with great result  creating  an holographical surround space with my stereo system...

 

In a word distortion is not a simple negative physical fact resulting from boundary interference effect but result  also of our body organization (2 Ears) perceiving unnaturally the same sound from 2 sources (stereo system) ...

We must not simply  eliminate distortion then  , we must  learn how to control it in our system/room.... 

 

 It is not enough to understand physical acoustics, we must understand basic psycho-acoustics and learn how to use it...

 This is why the balance ratio between LEV and ASW, between listener envelopment parameters and source width parameters  ask for more knowledge (reflections controls and pressure zones distribution controls)   than  just basic physical acoustics about speakers placement  as illustrated by my first acoustician video...