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In the Thread: What Passes for "Space" in Home Audio?
Post Subject: Bass wave lengthPosted by steverino on: 4/17/2024
As a practical matter any room length shorter than 60 feet (20 Hz) is going to chop bass note waves - the smaller the room the higher the frequency with wave chopping. Also because of the size of the bass note waves, human ears have trouble locating their source. There is thus a problem of producing bass notes in dynamic woofers because the bass note emanates from a small area. The problem is obviously not in producing the musical bass note frequency but rather in the unusual projection of bass notes into the listening space.
The easiest way to avoid such problems is to play music with no bass content. If that is not desired then there really is no true way with current technology around this problem of playing a recording made in one space to be then reproduced in a different space. We all have our idiosyncratic ways of dealing with this problem in our home systems. My own approach for those times I want to feel more immersion is simply to position myself within the nearfield of the speakers but close to the boundary line. But to each their own solution.
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