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10 driver but only goes out to 20khz?
And the made overseas, but priced like it's not...ouch.
cough (more money than sense) cough.
fzhang108
1
Jul 19, 2018
CalaverasgrandeHuman hearing range is between 20hz and 20 khz, what's the point of building something that can perform beyond that range? Bragging rights? Also, driver count has absolutely nothing to do with the sonic range. I'll leave the overseas manufacturing and price thing alone, I recommend browsing thru the head-fi.org forums, there's quite a bit of knowledge to be gained there.
koolpep
929
Jul 20, 2018
CalaverasgrandeAll Apple products are made in China. It makes sense to produce the items where most of their parts are made in any case. For example - all balanced armature drivers are made in China. All of them. Designed in the US, made in China. Noble makes as much as possible in the US, shells, final assembly etc, so that very laudable.
koolpepMy Macintosh actually says 'Made in USA'. As far as human hearing only being 20-20k. This is true if we are talking about pure waveforms. However when we are talking about complex musical program material, you can have upper frequencies which you cannot hear, but which influence lower frequencies through constructive and destructive waveform addition. For example; if you play a guitar chord with say a root, 5th and 6th. You will hear consonances and dissonances that beat. Or kind of warble at an audible slow frequency. A frequency much lower than any of the notes in that chord. If you transpose that chord up by about 10 octaves you would not hear any of the notes that make the chord. But you would still hear the beat frequency. There is also a principle that is often invoked in audio, that if you want flat from 20hz to 20khz, you need to go a bit farther on both sides of that range. If you just shoot for 20-20khz, you will end up with the frequency range starting to roll off by a few dB before you even get to 20k. Look up a frequency plot for a pair of pro speakers or headphones. When the response reaches the upper range, it often does not just smoothly roll off. Usually you will see a kind of valley/mountain/valley near the upper limit. Which can create a pleasant air or a fatiguing spike. I've got some pretty battered hearing from years of playing bass or drums in bands. But I can hear more edge and detail on my playback that goes out to 30k than on my speakers and cans that go to 20k.
koolpep
929
Jul 20, 2018
CalaverasgrandeMy MacBooks, iPhones and iPads are all made in China. Designed by Apple in California. But I heard Apple will bring some assembly back to the the US which is great.
I have no problems with high frequencies and there is certainly truth in your statement. But since most microphones don't record anything above 20khz there is not really much info to find there in most musical genres. Also if it happens that higher frequencies affect lower ones, wouldnt it be already be in the recording of the lower frequencies when they are played? Or do this frequencies only affect ears but not microphones? Anyhow human hearing is still in so many areas a mystery. Who knows.
andypak01
430
Jul 21, 2018
CalaverasgrandeYou still think US is number one in quality? That is no longer the case. Most people trust Japanese and Korean brands more when it comes to electronics and Japanese and European cars. with Failing public school system in America, I suspect it will fall further behind and will be overtaken in terms of technology withing 10 years and China will likely overtake US in terms of GDP within 10 years. I suspect you probably lived all your life in your city and never been to different countries. Travel more and it may broaden your small minded paradigm
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