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Ok - I'll look that up and see if I can make sense of it.
That's interesting about directivity. The anechoic response must matter somehow though, I would think. I talked with somebody some time ago who had designed a speaker that sounded great in the room he designed it in, but terrible in other rooms. He had unknowingly made a speaker that combined with that room's imperfections to create a neutral response in it. But that didn't translate well to other rooms.
We don't have measurement equipment - we listen to test tones and sine wave sweeps. The speakers are 41 1/2 inches from the wall behind them, 4 feet apart (toed in a bit), and our listening position is about 11 feet from them. The things that I notice particularly are that the speakers go lower before rolling off - in the PIR they seem to roll off around 70hz, but they sound pretty flat down to the mid-high 40's - and we don't hear that large decline from 700Hz to 4Khz.
We may not hear things as accurately as microphones, for sure, but we're careful listeners (I scored 9/10 on a test for hearing 1db differences), and I think we'd be able to hear a 5db drop like that.
Ours are the NrT dome Towers - that may explain some of it.
No worries, I understand you're busy - thanks for taking the time to respond to my post.
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I found what seems like a good paper on this (I love the internet):
Science in the Service of Art_1sided.indd (harman.com)
The section titled Measurements: Technical - Subjective starting on page 11 might be interesting for other folks to read.
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Patiently waiting for some info on tower upgrade kit from Dave ;)
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Patiently waiting for some info on tower upgrade kit from Dave ;)
Good to know there is going to be an upgrade kit for the Towers. I got mine just couple months, but will be very interested to know more detail about this upgrade kit.
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msound
Patiently waiting for some info on tower upgrade kit from Dave ;)
Did someone say tower upgrade kit?!
Do tell. :eek: Has Dave recently mentioned this might become available? Or are you hopefully speculating?
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Dave alluded to it in the LX thread.
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Dave alluded to it in the LX thread.
Thanks, that is exciting
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Thanks, that is exciting
Jonnyozero3??
We have not seen you around here in a while!!
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Jonnyozero3??
We have not seen you around here in a while!!
Hello! Yes it has been forever. Too busy simply enjoying my RAAL towers all these years. I see things are interesting around here with the new LX.
I hopped back on the site today for an unfortunate reason, needed to look up the company email address to contact for a repair. I did a bad/dumb thing and damaged my towers :(
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Tower upgrade?? I hope the RAAL tweeter and mid driver is kept and we can just replace the two woofers and crossover for a little extra low end slam.