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Old 02-12-2019, 01:24 PM
Pampero Pampero is offline
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One of Revel's primary design goals is smooth/even off-axis response or tightly controlled dispersion if you prefer. In the event, one could conclude that a speaker optimized for on-axis response would have an advantage in a "sweet spot" scenario but in fact, that's not the driving philosophy at Revel, not that on-axis response is ignored.

As an aside, the same goal is valued in the design of many professional JBL products. Smooth off axis response makes setting up large scale systems much easier when trying to optimize such factors as gain before feedback and even room coverage so here's a case where certain near field design goals also can be made to work in the far field.

I'm not suggesting there aren't other approaches to take, but smooth, controlled dispersion is a feature of almost all of Harman's upper tier products, even their horn loaded systems.

I think Harman's double blind rig is done about as well as it can be and provides considerable benefits to those who believe that the design of these things is a mix of art with a liberal dose of science applied.

Last edited by Pampero; 02-13-2019 at 11:41 AM.
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