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From: ames!sales.stern.nyu.edu!sbhattac@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Shankar Bhattacharyya)
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Subject: Re: Dipolar speakers with Subs?
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Date: 25 Mar 91 13:44:30 GMT
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>In article <10210@uwm.edu> noble@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Patrick Brewer) wrote:

>>      I have heard from various people (and read in the news groups)
>>that you should never use box subwoofers with dipolar speakers. I believe
>>the reasoning was that it would be hard to get them to blend in together. 

In a response I wrote:

>I think much of what is written about dipoles and woofers is nonsense.
   .... rest deleted .....

It struck me afterwards that the post may have sounded dismissive towards
Patrick's question. It was not so intended. I take his question entirely
seriously.

I do, however, remain dismissive towards much that is said and written
about matching dipoles with woofers. A lot of it requires suspension of
belief in physics.

My basic point, to Patrick, and anyone else with the same question, is that
they should stay aware that much of what they will hear and read on the
subject is wrong. The common wisdom is at least limited on the subject of
whether box woofers can be mated with dipoles, and, on the subject of why
there are problems, the common wisdom is wrong.

- Shankar