Power Response, Directivity Index and Sound Power


Several studies have shown that an even power response is one of the most important factors influencing the way we perceive sound.
In typical rooms the direct sound counts for around half of the sound reaching our ears.
The rest is sound reflected from floors, ceilings, walls and furnishing. The power response is the loudspeakers total radiated output from both direct and indirect sound.
Before DXT
A loudspeaker with an ordinary tweeter has to much mid-band dispersion. The result is serve reflections from boundaries like side walls and an unstable stereo image.

However the same speaker shows beaming effects at high frequencies. The result is a narrow sweetspot.
After DXT
A loudspeaker with a DXT tweeter has controlled dispersion in the mid-band. This greatly reduces wall reflexions and speakers can be placed closer to boundaries without limitation in spatial information.

At high frequencies the DXT lens expands dispersion for a large sweet-spot area.  

More about power response and directivity of sound

Measuring Loudspeakers Paper: www.stereophile.com
Linkwitz Lab - Loudspeaker Design: www.linkwitzlab.com
Whitepaper: www.harman.com
The Audio Engineering Society www.aes.org (access to papers requires membership)
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