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Inmate 51 says ("Good speaker design should produce big images or small ones depending on the source material not the speaker design.")

This could not make less sense than it already does. No speaker designer would ever design a speaker with a small soundstage or as you call it "image" the goal of all designers is to use drivers that have good off axis dispersion this is speaker design 101. Good off axis dispersion is what creates large soundstage this is why we have polar response measurements that measure on axis 0 degree and 15,30,45 degree off axis this is how we designers know a speaker will have a large soundstage. look at polar responses narrow polar response equals narrow dispersion patterns and small soundstage. Wide polar responses equal wide dispersion patterns and equal large soundstage.

General rule of thumb the larger the driver the wider the dispersion pattern and the wider the soundstage.

This is covered in the Vance Dickason loudspeaker cookbook you know the book you have told me you own and read. So, if you own and read the book why do you not know something as elementary as driver size and off axis dispersion and how it correlates to polar response and soundstage. This is a classic example of bigger is better. You cannot argue against physics small speaker equals small soundstage big speaker equals big soundstage it's pretty simple concept to be honest.

As far as source material being able to physically change a speaker cones physical dispersion pattern and alter the physical soundstage of a driver well that is absolutely as crazy as they are eating the cats and the dogs!!!

PS leave the speaker design comments to the speaker designers the less false information in the world the better off we all are.


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