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:
I've lived with speakers with both wide and narrow sweet spots. All things being equal, I'll take the wide sweet spot any day. Like with a pair of U-1s. ;)rw
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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)
Follow Ups
- Ideally, no - E-Stat 09:56:48 03/14/07 (0)