Very often I hear of outrageous wattage claims on loudspeakers and I am left to a parable of my own creation: Although a screwdriver stuck in a lamp socket will handle at least 1500 watts before the breaker trips, it won’t make much sound. The term “wattage” in our field usually refers to speakers and …
A Neat Experiment with the Car Radio, or Why There’s No Bass Knob on a Tuba
Less is so very much more. Most current auto radios have some sort of equalization circuitry. There may be bass and treble settings, you may have a three or five band equalizer, or maybe even those nifty presets (like “Jazz,” “News,” “Rock,” etc.). If you have a CD/MP3 player, the experiment will work better, but …
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Speaker Alignment: What’s the Difference Between “T” and “C”?
I’d say about ten milliseconds. The difference in sound, that is. Say them both out loud. The very first ten one-thousandths of a second is all that delineates the letter “t” from the letter “c” to our ears. Often as we age we have less ability to recognize higher frequencies. We may also lose our …
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