The good thing is, there’s no better or worse. In most (quite unoptimized) rooms, such a dip would be favorable, as at this frequency we not rarely find a peak resulting from some hard reflections.
In well optimized rooms we’d usually prefer flatter sounding speakers in this frequency spectrum, as the dip would otherwise probably support the impression of some energy missing.
The strange thing is how far away the options of speaker design generally are from the practical demand. It’s like a car which can only drive in one direction.
Imagine:
each (not fully optimized) room is different and what we’d need is a speaker (or other components) which can be matched to our room. What we get are speakers and components which have a fixed design towards an ideal room (no one has). Those components can guarantee one thing: due to their fixed design they won’t be perfect for any room (by a reasonable chance). That’s the weirdness of high end.
You’ll rest well knowing I listen as much as possible, having tried all reasonably priced options available to me, including EQ’s, etc. Living way out in the middle of the Pacific, arranging speaker auditions, outside of Crutchfield, costs $600 round trip, or more…
Are you suggesting that I need psychological counseling?! Where’s the moderator, I’ve been slandered!
“All of the options” is a whole lot of things. There are thousands upon thousands of speakers and components on the market. I’ve tried a very small handful of those.
But I ultimately agree, I do need psychological help
@RonP But it’s not good music . And it’s extraordinarily poor dac engineering. I’m going to take lots of money and design a device that will make 99% of the music in the world sound as terrible as possible. And I’m going to charge $10K for that DAC. And that very chimpanzee engineering is lauded. Oy vey 🤷
I personally prefer to listen to music rather than a DAC. But I do understand the attraction of DAC listening.
One day this old school audiophile ideology will be a distant past. Sort of like treatment with leeches and the world is flat.
