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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: The Bose flame war: Equalizer Bunk
- Message-ID: <C1HwM8.KHI@world.std.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:32:32 GMT
- References: <C1A7B3.469@world.std.com> <1993Jan27.012250.9338@trl.oz.au>
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- In article <1993Jan27.012250.9338@trl.oz.au> tpearson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Trevor Pearson) writes:
- >
- >Gee Dick, you are totally correct BUT, a sealed system is described as
- >high efficiency? As I'm sure you'd agree, equalization does not increase
- >the efficiency of a system. I usually retain the term high efficiency
- >for Horn loaded speakers, when describing speaker systems. I will
- >admit the term is relative and used very loosely these
- >days.
-
- Yeah, it's all relative indeed. But the technique that I described allows
- you to get an efficiency constant that's 3 dB higher than otherwise
- possible from the best possible sealed box (one with a system Q of 1.25 or
- so, blech!) of the same size and cutoff frequency, and 4-5 dB higher than
- a maximally flat selaed box system (with a system Q of 0.707). And it two,
- will have maximally flat characteristics.
-
- Sure, there ain't nothing like the efficiency of a horn. Then, there ain't
- nothing like the uniquely indentifiable sound of a horn either :-(.
-
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