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Originally Posted by Lupo  Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulP  Is it just me or are Europeans more interested in diffusion than elsewhere ?
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I hadn't forgotten terry j
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I was referring more to rooms that I've seen on the net. Quite a few have
wall to wall diffusors. I haven't seen many like that from North America or
Asia.
I think there must be a cultural component. I have a French book on
speaker design and one of the models has always attracted me. It's got
the tweeter firing straight up from the top of the box and there's a
parabolic mirror on a stand above it that disperses the high frequencies
all over the place.
My mother-in-law has a set of speakers, which I bought for her late husband,
Magnasphere's from Germany :
The upper midrange and tweeters are back-to-back domes, no cones.
The things radiate everywhere and sound good when not too far off a
bare wall. No treatment in her room. They sound great. While I was going
around to all the stores listening to some CDs I brought along these had
by far the best presence.
So why do Americans shun diffusion/dispersion ?
Paul P (sorry to have gone so far off topic)