Have you ever wondered what color Coke/Pepsi would be if they didn't add the caramel color? These are speakers in their natural state, clearly. This is what speakers look like before they start to "design" or "style" them in to those black boxes.
"The speakers are based on a single driver design, as opposed to the dual-driver - tweeter and woofer - design used in many speakers. Eclipse claimed its approach "maximises time, phase and impulse characteristics" to avoid distortion"
or because its cheaper?
"and there is no crossover to smear out any of the sound."
yes, I find 10khz rumbles fed into 1" tweeters often reduces smear!
This sounds like first class, almost commendable, marketing tripe to excuse the fact that these are pants. My B&W at a grand each must be rubbish with their stupid 2 driver system. And I really must remember to turn off my smeary crossover so all the bass can go freely into the high frequency drivers!
"It also has a frequency response rate of 10Hz to 100kHz."
This means diddly squat of bugger all, unless they tell you the limits over which these measurements were made. The fact that it might be 100dB down at 10Hz (or 100kHz), with a huge hole in the middle at the crossover between the main units and the subwoofer, might tarnish this silly figure, after all.
"It also has a frequency response rate of 10Hz to 100kHz."
This is absolutely ridiculous. To achieve frequencies that low, a much larger driver is generally needed, why even Studio Monitors for professional sound engineering generally only go down to around 40Hz - To go lower, a separate sub is usually needed. Also to be able to produce frequencies of up to 100kHz through the same driver is just utterly ridiculous as the cone will be attempting to vibrate *FAR* too much, and the sound will just come out sounding muddy and cramped, and probably cause ear strain.
Besides, even if their figures are correct, what exactly is the point (Besides boasting to friends)? The Human ear can only hear from 20Hz (Frequencies below this being felt rather than heard) to 20kHz (Occasionally a little more for young children), so to have speakers that purportedly produce these frequencies is utterly pointless.
Eclipse's audio kit promises 'unstylish' music
Chris
Pure not-style #
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 17:29 GMT
Have you ever wondered what color Coke/Pepsi would be if they didn't add the caramel color? These are speakers in their natural state, clearly. This is what speakers look like before they start to "design" or "style" them in to those black boxes.
Oliverh
Single Driver and no Crossover!?!?!? #
Posted Friday 24th August 2007 10:12 GMT
"The speakers are based on a single driver design, as opposed to the dual-driver - tweeter and woofer - design used in many speakers. Eclipse claimed its approach "maximises time, phase and impulse characteristics" to avoid distortion"
or because its cheaper?
"and there is no crossover to smear out any of the sound."
yes, I find 10khz rumbles fed into 1" tweeters often reduces smear!
This sounds like first class, almost commendable, marketing tripe to excuse the fact that these are pants. My B&W at a grand each must be rubbish with their stupid 2 driver system. And I really must remember to turn off my smeary crossover so all the bass can go freely into the high frequency drivers!
TOSH!
Anonymous Coward
Ha ha ha ha ha!! #
Posted Friday 24th August 2007 10:12 GMT
"It also has a frequency response rate of 10Hz to 100kHz."
This means diddly squat of bugger all, unless they tell you the limits over which these measurements were made. The fact that it might be 100dB down at 10Hz (or 100kHz), with a huge hole in the middle at the crossover between the main units and the subwoofer, might tarnish this silly figure, after all.
Anonymous Coward
Can anyone say "BS"? #
Posted Wednesday 29th August 2007 01:56 GMT
"It also has a frequency response rate of 10Hz to 100kHz."
This is absolutely ridiculous. To achieve frequencies that low, a much larger driver is generally needed, why even Studio Monitors for professional sound engineering generally only go down to around 40Hz - To go lower, a separate sub is usually needed. Also to be able to produce frequencies of up to 100kHz through the same driver is just utterly ridiculous as the cone will be attempting to vibrate *FAR* too much, and the sound will just come out sounding muddy and cramped, and probably cause ear strain.
Besides, even if their figures are correct, what exactly is the point (Besides boasting to friends)? The Human ear can only hear from 20Hz (Frequencies below this being felt rather than heard) to 20kHz (Occasionally a little more for young children), so to have speakers that purportedly produce these frequencies is utterly pointless.