Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Either way, I seriously doubt you can notice the difference. I did a test once and I I don't think I could pick up a difference until 3dB and that was at a single tone and just noticeable. If a single frequency was off by 3dB in a song I doubt I would notice.
Personally at this price I think your getting a good deal. My advice unless there is an obvious problem, just listen and enjoy.
I personally interpreted it with the "other speaker" always being the 0dB line. So when we're looking at speaker A (the blue line), speaker B is implicitly the flat 0dB line. Whereas when we're looking at speaker B (the orange line), speaker A is implicitly the flat 0dB line. It's almost like two separate graphs overlaid on top of one another.
Regardless, the LSR30X really are a yummy sounding pair of powered monitors, especially when setup properly. Yes, there's a slight amount of "white noise" that I can hear up to a meter or two away when nothing is playing. In my case, the amount of hiss is the same for all settings of the input trim except for "0" (all of the way down) where it goes away completely with a faint "tick". They benefit from a little room gain, so placing them one to two feet from the rear or side walls and having your head < 3ft from the wall behind you will help to fill out the bass. The highs are not harsh or fatiguing. Off axis response sounds like it is well behaved (as you'd expect from JBL).
Many thanks to Massdrop for setting up this drop and then offering us such a great price. Even at the original price, the LSR30X offer excellent value for money, but I'm glad I caught them at this price and didn't have to wait too long for them to arrive. Cheers and happy listening!
I agree that something was lost in the semantics, but that's the only way that graph makes sense. They printed the difference signal as compared to the other speaker twice (making speaker A and then speaker B arbitrarily completely flat) rather than once. Probably an assembly line guy assigned the fun task of running the graph, not a speaker engineer.