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|   Terrence, "Timbre Match" question please. | Smokey
Nov 28, 2001 3:59 PM | | Hi T
when you say timbre match, do you mean speakers should have same specification electronically (it response curve over 20-20kz range) or sonicly (interact with its surrounding), or combination of both?
Thanks.
PS: please make your response as short as possible because I am still digesting the long response you gave to Peter about his Center matching problem (:^))
Terrence "Center Channel Tone Matching???" 11/24/01 8:55pm |
| Short answer! who me????? | Terrence
Nov 28, 2001 4:38 PM | | Yeah right!!!
Smokey, what I mean is the tonal characteristic of the speakers must be the same. This can be acheived by using identical drivers, and matching the frequency responses of the speakers in the same frequency range. For instance if your center speaker has a in room frequency response of 80-20khz +-3, and your mains have a frequency response of 32-20khz. Then it is possible to timbre match them from 80-20khz if you use identical drivers, with identical crossover points.
So the short answer is the tonal character of the speakers must match. It is up to the speaker designer to decide how to accomplish that.
Terrence |
| you don't know shit 'bout noffin | Kmiec is no idiot
Nov 28, 2001 4:48 PM | | |
| That was short and sweet. | Smokey
Nov 28, 2001 10:34 PM | | Thanks T. I have a better understanding of timbre matching now. |
| good test for timbre matching? LIsten to test signal? | satz
Dec 2, 2001 2:07 PM | | WOuld the best test for timbre matching be to listen to the built-in (to amp) white noise tests for channel balance? Not so much to listen to the channel balance per se, but to listen to the tone itself to see how closely the tone of the centre matches the front main speakers?
It would seem to me to be a very difficult task to have the centre matching the main (due to differences in cabinet size and layout (unless all were designed at the same time)
Satz |
| Smokey and Terrence.... | nick4433
Nov 28, 2001 9:47 PM | | Do you want Adam and i to give you results of our collective study of Timbre matching? Do you want to know all about tree barks and oak trees and Pine trees and how wood from same tree or neighboring trees affect timbre matching? |
| Oh no!! | Smokey
Nov 28, 2001 10:44 PM | | The way you and Adam are picky about timbre matching, you both probably end up chopping every tree down in north America to find an exact match. we might not be able to breath oxygen afterward, but our speakers are timbre matched (:^))
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| SMOKEY... | nick4433
Nov 29, 2001 8:49 AM | | Because of your post, we are having a tough time getting these environmentalists off our backs! |
| I am sorry, I called them..... | Terrence
Nov 29, 2001 11:11 AM | | Adam and Nick,
There has been no credible DBT on your claims that chopping up the same type of tree, from the same neighborhood, will produce a audible timbre match. After witnessing you two chop up the Angeles National forest, and Yellowstone national park trying to create a single pair of timbre matched speakers, I become so incensed, That I called the Navy, National guard, Greenpeace, and the Sierra club to deal with you two.
I did it to save our planet from a non stop plague of mudslides that will be created because of you destructionist for timbre matching.
Terrence |
| I am sorry, I called them..... | nick4433
Nov 29, 2001 11:56 AM | | Just to let you know, Adam and I will be conducting research on new speaker building material which will be very earth friendly. We have started by building a tougher composite comprised mainly of Mud (collected from our negligently caused mudslides) and added with some graphite and Kevlar for even more toughness. Just don't be dropping those speakers. Oh BTW, the would be perfectly safe for water storage too just in case you don't like the sound of the speaker. How more earth friendly can we get? |
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