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In Reply to: RE: Maggie 3.7's vs 3.6's posted by DrChaos on October 16, 2012 at 17:09:39:
Wendell emailed to say that while it's an interesting theory, it doesn't happen to be the case.
My own argument against it would be that the brain compensates for the falloff in sensitivity, to the extent that usable signal remains. Which is why we don't generally notice frequency response changing as we lose our hearing, even if we lose a great deal of sensitivity, e.g., 10 or 20 dB. So bright will still sound bright, as long as you can still hear in that range, and vice-versa.
To get back to what Wendell said, he made the interesting point that they decided to use resistors rather than a high frequency switch because there were no contacts to wear. But that had the unfortunate effect that people think that if you have to use the resistors, something is wrong. They aren't any different than the tweeter adjustments on every speaker, as long as room acoustics vary speakers will need these tweaks. I think he said at one point though that if you need more than a 1 ohm tweeter resistor, it's time to consider adding some HF absorption to your room.
Another interesting point he's made is that when Maggies sound too bright, it's usually a recessed midbass rather than an excessively bright tweeter. The DWM's seem to be the fix of choice for this -- they have to tune the woofers for an average room, and small rooms can have too much bass, while large ones can have too little.
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