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what is considered good response?
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| Enigmatic XTC |
what is considered a good response curve in monitors?
i.e. xHz-xHz + or - xdB |
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| richg101 |
| mackie claims +/- 1db accross their usable frequency response. i doubt this is true - if it is then they are very very flat speakers. |
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| Enigmatic XTC |
| quote: | Originally posted by ASFSE
20-20 right? |
yeah, 20-20 but at what? 20-20 at plus or minus 1 dB is a whole lot different than 20-20 at 7 dB |
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| jahnlay |
| It would be very difficult to find monitors that go down to 20 Hz. Mine (Event ASP 8) go from 35 Hz to 22 KHz, +/- 3 dB which is a very good spec. The Mackie HR 824's only get down to 40 Hz with the bass extension switch on, and are woolly down there at best. |
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| Derivative |
For various reasons you should not judge a monitor by its frequency response.
Because an amplifier may be able to scale up a 20 hz signal, but if it has a 6 inch woofer attached to it, it won't be able to drive that frequency (and therefore reproduce it as sound) because the cone and voice coil are not big enough.
Conversely, you can get amplifiers paired with massive woofers and same problem in reverse applies.
And then you have to take into account how it sounds in your room because this is the biggest problem with monitors designed to have flat responses in a neutral space (a bloody 3 million dollar floating studio).
There is a science to speaker design but unless you approach it mathematically and have control over variables like room acoustics, materials, control over standing waves and so forth, it doesn't pay to invest alot of thought into what monitors would be suitable in your bedroom. Your best bet is to try out a whole bunch of nearfield monitors and buy the ones you like the most.
Any 8 inch woofer monitor or smaller that claims it can reproduce a 20hz tone is likely making that claim on a technicality. It can no doubt amplify a 20hz instrument level signal but the woofer probably isn't big enough or designed in such way where it can punch out an acoustic signal that low. So you won't hear (feel?) it accurately.
And even if you had a speaker that could (like a Bag End...), could you imagine a high amplitude 20hz tone going off in your bedroom? A small room with less than ideal acoustics? You would just get bass flutter echoes all over the place and it would sound anyway.
The empty cans of beer on your desk would also be rattling all over the place. And we can't have that. |
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| Pjotr G |
| the one that sounds best. |
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