My Studio 20's
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I guess it's been a couple of years or so since I bought a pair of used Studio 20 v.2 off PaulyT and not very many days go by when I don't think to myself "Dang! Those sound nice!"
But I wonder. Is there that big a sonic difference between the v.2 and v.5?
Ok. In a super crtical set-up where everything is just right in order to be able to listen to them?
How about like shown in the pic below: on mopads, on their side, on a bookshelf (fancy that with a "bookshelf" speaker!), flanking a flat panel? (That's where they currently reside: set up in my family room HT. But when I first got them I had them in a simple stereo set up in my main HT for a few weeks and they were quite impressive there as well.)
Enough of a difference to justify the current going price (new or used) for the v.5 - instead of finding another PaulyT-type sale out there on a pair of v.2?
Just wondering. (And only wondering about "the sound" - not the look / finish. I readily admit that those v.5's in the eBay listing look a lot nicer than my plain black v.2's.)
Jeff
But I wonder. Is there that big a sonic difference between the v.2 and v.5?
Ok. In a super crtical set-up where everything is just right in order to be able to listen to them?
How about like shown in the pic below: on mopads, on their side, on a bookshelf (fancy that with a "bookshelf" speaker!), flanking a flat panel? (That's where they currently reside: set up in my family room HT. But when I first got them I had them in a simple stereo set up in my main HT for a few weeks and they were quite impressive there as well.)
Enough of a difference to justify the current going price (new or used) for the v.5 - instead of finding another PaulyT-type sale out there on a pair of v.2?
Just wondering. (And only wondering about "the sound" - not the look / finish. I readily admit that those v.5's in the eBay listing look a lot nicer than my plain black v.2's.)
Jeff
Orbison said:
It will do that to a certain degree, but you will still have boundary interaction issues any time you put a speaker too close to a wall.
I wonder if that was their main reason or if there was something else?
I was thinking that with the number of people shoving speakers into cabinets and coves and what nots, if their intention was to make a more "user friendly" speaker. Based on most people caring far more about how things look than how their system sounds.
Yesfan70 said:
yes, that is true, but not the whole story.
The port and the speaker interact at the tuning frequency and the port is 180 deg out of phase with the woofer in that range. If it is out of phase, then it should be on the rear so it is more in phase (physically) than the woofer.
Also, since they are competing with each other (one being out of phase with the other) then moving them as far apart as possible results in better performance at the listening position.
I always put my ports on the rear when designing speakers. It performs, measures and sounds better.