>>>>>>>>>. The VR-4 Gen II was designed using psychoacoustic information
obtained from studies by several researchers who are very well known and are the authorities in their fields. We used the information by Zwicker and Fastl in their book "Psychoacoustics" printed in Berlin, 1990, by Springer-Verlag.
Also, we consulted papers by Dr. Floyd Toole, once head of the NRC, whose studies on speakers and perception are the standards for all designers.
Basically, these researchers have discovered (as we have) that phase coherency obtained by first order crossovers does not make the speaker sound better in a living room due to the multiple time delays that exist from boundary reflections and the ear's insensitivity to delayed transients. Zwicker and Fastl discovered that the ear/brain hearing mechanism "fuses" any seperate events occuring closer together than 2ms, which is the case of the drive unit pulses in the VR-4 Gen II. However, designs using first order crossovers have severe interdriver interference patterns off axis, since their pressures do not sum to unity off axis due to uneven path length differences. In the case of listening to speakers in an average living room, designs using steep crossovers have far better off axis frequency response than first order designs, thus our speakers measure better over the frontal hemisphere than speakers such as Quad, Dunlavy, Theil, and Vandersteen. Of course, the fact that we use steep crossovers does not necessarily mean that there is ringing or energy storage in the circuits, since we damp these out using Zobel LCR networks. However, since the pulse is stretched out over 1ms, the speaker will not reproduce a square wave. This is not audible to the ear, however, according to all of the data available. >>>>>>
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