Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:46:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: MB Quart vs. Panasonic speakers
Comments: To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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Mike Miller wrote:
> Boy have you opened a can of worms, high frequency ones, low frequency ones
> and the rest too.
>
> This subject is the subject of many debates and even some hard research,
> much of it bound up in psychoacoustics. Dr. Floyd O'toole late of the
> Canadian sound research project set up by the Canuck government did a bunch,
> as well as many others over quite a few years.
>
> Still way more questions than answers.
Indeed. Remember that this the interior of a vehicle, and not a
particularly quiet one at that, and that the speakers are mounted on
pieces of fiberboard in an enclosure consisting of thin stamped metal,
with the drivers usually directed at the side of the listener's legs.
Trying to achieve some degree of signal fidelity in this environment is
very difficult, and even if it was managed, it would be as difficult to
appreciate as good perfumes in a glue factory.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR