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Originally Posted by navin higher freqnuecies are also more directional and that is why your tweeters are as close to your ear's listening axis and the subwofoers are behind your seat. |
Yes, of course, this is probably the primary reason. But I think the word "also" is important here, because attenuation of high frequency is not any less important a reason. Assume that you were listening to mono recordings (no spatial information) and the tweeters were also omnidirectional (no directivity), even then I don't think we can mount the tweeter in boot behind thick cushion of seats. It wouldn't help since major portion of highs would get absorbed, right?
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Like I have said beofre Room/Cabin Gain is not like a LPF. Just becuase a cabin has a 6db boost at 60Hz it wont nesscarily have a 12db boos at 30Hz.
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I hope I understand whatever you have said about gain- being "nodal" and "not like LPF", you need to "excite" those modes which vastly depends upon "positioning" etc. That is why I had said-
it is "chaotic" to say the least. I am sure that these room modes spoil the SQ, and also makes it dependent upon the listener position (sweet spot).
Buttttt.......
I "
believe" that this behavior happens above a certain frequency which is the lowest room mode, and its wavelength is twice the longest internal dimension of the room/cabin.
Real questions that I have are -I repeat it once again-
What happens to frequencies below the lowest (i.e. the first) room node?
-Is it as chaotic as explained above, and spoils SQ?
-Or is it more like a smoother, cleaner, LPF gain?
-Is that the reason why sealed boxes are better suited to cars, which have a natural roll-off of 12db/octave? This link tends to say that it should be so since the room gain experienced for sealed boxes is exactly equal to this- 12db/octave (it is a hyperlink in the previous link, named "below the lowest room resonance" :
http://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/gr...losure-spl.gif
I tend to think that at very low frequencies, it is more like a much cleaner, LPF kind of gain. Because I definitely don't hear room modes in case of headphones/ear buds/canal buds, and still enjoy very good bass....unlike home.
And then, I have another related questions as mentioned in post #16:
Are sealed subwoofers more suitable under such room gain conditions? Do ported ones show weired behavior (their problems getting aggravated or something)?