Audio Science in the Service of Art

muralman1

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I have read all the posts. I must admit, most of the tutelage frightens me with all the numerous problems and their anecdotes.

I look at it this way, I have set my speakers in order that the primary sound reaches me well first. The MRT is 5' from the side walls. The floor is sumptuously carpeted. The ceiling is 10' high, and well broken by heavy molding into 12 squares.

The MRT consists of 17' of bipole tweeter, a 4.5' long mid driver, and a 10 sq. ft bass panel. I know this sounds like a speaker designed by a drunk, but I have to tell you, playing piano at full volume sounds real at any listening position. That should be easy to imagine, a piano is much the bipole.

This isn't the best room. Those who can afford it, or buy into a really big space, have the means to create a marvelously good sound. I have heard the same speakers in such a room. They simply disappear.
 

Phelonious Ponk

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i have read all the posts. I must admit, most of the tutelage frightens me with all the numerous problems and their anecdotes.

I look at it this way, i have set my speakers in order that the primary sound reaches me well first. The mrt is 5' from the side walls. The floor is sumptuously carpeted. The ceiling is 10' high, and well broken by heavy molding into 12 squares.

The mrt consists of 17' of bipole tweeter, a 4.5' long mid driver, and a 10 sq. Ft bass panel. I know this sounds like a speaker designed by a drunk, but i have to tell you, playing piano at full volume sounds real at any listening position. That should be easy to imagine, a piano is much the bipole.

This isn't the best room. Those who can afford it, or buy into a really big space, have the means to create a marvelously good sound. I have heard the same speakers in such a room. They simply disappear.

mrt?

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Phelonious Ponk

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Hi Phelonious, MRT stands for Mid Ribbon Tweeter. A cross section of the assemblage takes the shape of a five spot on a die.

And you have one that's 17 feet long? That must be hard to place in the room.

:)

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kerembasaran

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Mr. Olive,

I have studied the patent on your work for predicting loudspeaker preference. I congratulate you on this valuable work. I'm a DIY builder and an engineering student in a vibration and acoustics programme and I have learned a lot from your publications.

My masters thesis will be about sound quality of tweeters and while doing comparisons on different drivers, I want to include the results of your metrics as well. I have already written a Matlab code to calculate the metrics and did some tests on my loudspeakers. I found very close values (e.g. AAD between 2dB to 2.5dB) for different loudspeakers. I want to know if these values are correctly calculated and how they measure to other speakers. Do you happen to provide sample measurements and calculation results for those metrics?
 

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