In Reply to: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." posted by Duke on March 13, 2007 at 14:21:57:
You can have whatever kind of sound field you prefer by speaker type selection and set up.I have 'graduated' from elecrostats back to dynamic floorstanding 'monitor's' and the sweet spot is where its at for me.
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - Duke 14:21:57 03/13/07 (68)
- DISAGREE (nt) - Supernaught 03:17:02 03/16/07 (0)
- Informal results - almost a three-way tie between the two (I said it was informal) - Duke 19:37:07 03/15/07 (22)
- Your slanted ridiculous question = biased answers. How many people optimize sound quality for a non-sweet-spot seat? - Richard BassNut Greene 07:17:30 03/16/07 (14)
- Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bass bin! - John Ashman 08:15:18 03/17/07 (1)
- Hey my last DIY subwoofer was so big that I included a spare bedroom inside - Richard BassNut Greene 10:29:40 03/18/07 (0)
- Also, don't put words in my mouth. - Duke 09:36:01 03/16/07 (1)
- If I really WAS putting words in your mouth, then your posts would make more sense! - Richard BassNut Greene 10:17:07 03/18/07 (0)
- Do you or do you not admit... - Duke 09:11:38 03/16/07 (9)
- Two channel stereo sounds best when the left ear to left speaker distance equals the right ear to right speaker distance - Richard BassNut Greene 14:31:08 03/16/07 (8)
- Richard, stop putting words in my mouth. - Duke 15:38:27 03/16/07 (7)
- I just wrote you judged speakers from the next room to give you a hard time in "how important is the sweet spot" issue - Richard BassNut Greene 07:45:27 03/17/07 (6)
- I do the same...... - John Ashman 08:18:50 03/17/07 (5)
- I suspected that, given your comments on the little NHTs - Duke 19:16:12 03/19/07 (0)
- Judging speaker sound quality from another room makes as much sense as weighing them & buying the heaviest speakers! - Richard BassNut Greene 10:52:44 03/18/07 (3)
- Not really a good analogy - Duke 18:45:20 03/19/07 (0)
- I don't think you're understanding... - John Ashman 18:28:35 03/18/07 (1)
- You say it's a music lover's trick -- sounds more like a stupid pet trick to me - Richard BassNut Greene 07:47:24 03/23/07 (0)
- "…almost a three-way tie between the two…" - David Aiken 22:43:03 03/15/07 (2)
- Studies have shown that... - Duke 23:35:20 03/15/07 (1)
- My wife's statistics lecturer... - David Aiken 13:21:42 03/16/07 (0)
- Just currious what you will do with the information - Quiet Earth 22:19:12 03/15/07 (2)
- Just leave it up here - Duke 23:48:58 03/15/07 (1)
- Oh, I get it now. I guess I missed all of that. - Quiet Earth 07:45:25 03/16/07 (0)
- Re: Informal results - almost a three-way tie between the two (I said it was informal) - chocolate_lover9999@yahoo.com 21:59:59 03/15/07 (0)
- Disagree - plantsman 09:50:04 03/15/07 (0)
- spot's a bonus but off-axis quality comes first (nt) - CD 19:42:37 03/14/07 (0)
- NO. - Sword of Doom 19:18:12 03/14/07 (0)
- Mostly agree . . . . . somewhat disagree - Quiet Earth 17:26:47 03/14/07 (0)
- Oh you are a sly one - Russ57 14:52:27 03/14/07 (2)
- You give me too much credit... - Duke 16:22:05 03/14/07 (1)
- But we would like to raise your credit limit Sir - Russ57 16:37:56 03/15/07 (0)
- No - David Aiken 14:22:28 03/14/07 (0)
- Ideally, no - E-Stat 09:56:48 03/14/07 (0)
- Re: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - acres verde 09:41:02 03/14/07 (0)
- Do you agree: "The sound quality at my sweet spot seat is more important than at other seats." = a better question - Richard BassNut Greene 08:40:53 03/14/07 (5)
- Nope, that biases it too much towards "agree". - Duke 09:44:41 03/14/07 (4)
- Truth -- just what is that? - Richard BassNut Greene 13:14:39 03/14/07 (3)
- I prefer not to "disregard"... - Duke 15:25:07 03/14/07 (2)
- I must have missed that - Schu 05:41:23 03/15/07 (1)
- Link - Duke 10:26:44 03/15/07 (0)
- No -- I would not have sold my Innersound Eros - 1musiclover 06:31:45 03/14/07 (0)
- In theory - Yes. In practice..... - Bob Rex 05:58:47 03/14/07 (0)
- No a good system or loudspeaker should - Kloss 05:21:13 03/14/07 (0)
- thanks to the likes of informed horn users... no - stuck.wilson@gmail.com 05:01:38 03/14/07 (0)
- Yes and No - Schu 04:42:04 03/14/07 (0)
- 2 channel sweet spot for me....... - kenster 03:12:40 03/14/07 (0)
- No to one sweet spot - TimTaylor 00:30:12 03/14/07 (0)
- No - JeffH 22:54:50 03/13/07 (0)
- Nope - Craiger56 20:25:11 03/13/07 (0)
- One sweet spot - - Chuck Y 19:29:20 03/13/07 (0)
- Not for me. (nt) - kuma 18:36:21 03/13/07 (0)
- YES! Miniscule. I use one of these to help the problem: - jderdock 16:58:57 03/13/07 (7)
- exactly my problem- you must own Acoustat like i do - Joe M 18:43:32 03/13/07 (5)
- I lived with Acoustats for over twenty years - E-Stat 08:32:21 03/14/07 (4)
- I will follow you along that route too.......as soon as i win the Florida Lotto - price in '78 - Joe M 09:47:16 03/14/07 (3)
- Got my pair of Xs for $1100 on accomodation - E-Stat 09:53:13 03/14/07 (2)
- Are SL as nearly indestructible as are Acoustat- i.e. will they be my last Speakers? - Joe M 10:30:59 03/14/07 (1)
- Yes and no - E-Stat 11:14:39 03/14/07 (0)
- now THATS funny!!!!!! nt - snkby 17:29:57 03/13/07 (0)
- Re: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - Dman 16:46:32 03/13/07 (2)
- Re: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - Drew Eckhardt 16:53:31 03/13/07 (1)
- Re: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - Dman 17:05:27 03/13/07 (0)
- no - Bruce from DC 15:51:37 03/13/07 (0)
- That is why Paul Klipsch developed the Belle - djn 15:42:30 03/13/07 (0)
- Disagree... - musetap 15:33:44 03/13/07 (0)
- It all depends. - djn 15:20:18 03/13/07 (0)
- Essentially, 'Yes' (for me). Although .... - PureAudio 15:00:44 03/13/07 (0)
- Re: informal poll, Agree or Disagree: "Two channel audio has one sweet spot." - Dynaudio_Rules 14:56:53 03/13/07 (0)
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- One sweet spot - - Chuck Y 19:29:20 03/13/07 (0)