The AV NIRVANA Speaker Evaluation Event - Speakers at $1,200 or Less (Preliminary)

[Sonnie Parker]

35Hz – 40kHz (–6dB)

 

[Matthew J Poes]

35Hz – 40kHz (–6dB)

Thanks Sonny. I actually was referring to the detailed graphs they publish on their better speakers and pro line.

See the first reflection and sound power. You need it to look something like that. The DI is flat from about 800hz to 8khz which is great.

I wish more companies would give us this kind of data. It tells you a lot about a speaker in terms of what rooms it will work best in, how to set them up, etc.

Here is one for the JBL 8330 which was originally praised for having a flatter response than the waveguide speakers, but later disliked for having a poor power response. Beamwidth and DI aren’t the same but if one is flat the other has to be flat so it’s a valid point of comparison.

You can see it’s not very flat pretty much anywhere. This kind of speaker would work poorly using aggressive toe (though interestingly enough most listeners in theaters would have been seriously off axis for them).

 

[Matthew J Poes]

One more request.

Don’t know if it’s a great recording or a terrible recording of a piano but either way it’s particularly challenging for speakers to reproduce this cleanly. I suggest first listening on a good headphone rig to get what it’s supposed to sound like and hear the distortion in the recording vs what the speaker adds. I find it sounds good on headphones but many speakers sound blown playing it. It seems to have some content that just hits the right frequencies to challenge a lot of tweeters. I’d call this a congested recording that is made more congested by the harmonic distortion of many speakers.

 

[bkeeler10]

We should have time to do that... and I'd be interested in hearing it myself. The Klipsch are dead... so we can't do those, but the JBL's should be doable.

The Klipsch are dead? So it wasn't just aesthetic damage in shipping - something actually broke? Bummer.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Yep... tweeter was not playing in the one that was damaged.

When they were originally shipped, I only received one speaker... and the other was reported delayed by the shipper (it must have really been destroyed). After a few days and no update on shipping, I had to get another one sent out. It did not arrive until this past Tuesday, so I didn't have time to check them out before we got the event going. However, it would not have mattered, as we wouldn't have had time to get another in here soon enough from the time we discovered it.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

View attachment 4666 One more request.

Don’t know if it’s a great recording or a terrible recording of a piano but either way it’s particularly challenging for speakers to reproduce this cleanly. I suggest first listening on a good headphone rig to get what it’s supposed to sound like and hear the distortion in the recording vs what the speaker adds. I find it sounds good on headphones but many speakers sound blown playing it. It seems to have some content that just hits the right frequencies to challenge a lot of tweeters. I’d call this a congested recording that is made more congested by the harmonic distortion of many speakers.

We'll have to see about using this at our next event.

 

[Sonnie Parker]

Please refer all further comments to the results thread: AV NIRVANA Speaker Evaluation Event - Tower Speakers $1200 or Less (Results)

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[Sonnie Parker]

The first post has been updated with new information and explanations... (I still have to add my song list).

The first evaluation is now posted: https://www.avnirvana.com/threads/a...peakers-1200-or-less-results.1640/#post-15058

We hope to get one every other day or two posted.

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