QUOTE(BuFung @ Sep 16 2010, 01:17 AM)
what u say is correct.... but ur understanding are only up to there...
let me explaint to u why ....
first of all, U have to understand 1 speaker not MUST produce sound worse than 2 speaker.. like the example I give you..
2nd.. for phone.. even u have 2 speakers.. u can hardly tell which sound come from which speaker to ur ear... our ear reconize sound from which direction by calculation on our brain.. the different of sound deliver to our left earn and right ear... because the stereo speaker on phone are ultra close.. We do not know which and which channel from which speakers..
3rd... Sound.. traval by about 300m/s.... and sound have wavelenght.... human ear can listen something like 80Hz to 18kHz..... ur left speaker and ur right speaker on the phone distance are .. say max 10cm apart..... in order for our ear to know the different.. the wave lenght of the sound MUST be less than 10cm then only we MIGHT possible to tell the different....
Speed = 300m/s
wavelength = 10cm or 0.1m
the frequency u Might/start can tell the different is 300m/s divide by 0.1m which u get 3000Hz.. which is 3kHz and above sound u might able to tell the different... any freq below that.. we can differential sh1t.... that is also why the reason we always use only 1 subwoofer... the wavelenght of those frequency are few Meter.. we know sh1t about where the sound from...
4th... compliment to the 2nd point.. u have to place the phone as close to ur ear as possible to make the different of distance travel to ur 2 ear to be high... mean distant A -distant B = higher the value.... then u can tell the different more obvious....
sum up all the point above.... if a phone with mono speaker. .. and this mono speaker can produce good sound.. it mix up ur source 2 channels together and output to this speaker... we can tell sh1t the different of a stereo speaker phone...
u talking about studio monitor speaker.. I can talk 1 day 1 night with u.... and u also can see why they put the left and right speaker far apart to get actual Stereo effect...
EOF.. thank you....
Thanks for your time for the detailed explanation.
Actually, I haven't heard of a good mono speaker so I can't comment on it but in terms of smartphones, wouldn't having stereo speaker for dedicated channels produce better sound than single speaker?
When the 2 source channel mix together and output through single speaker VS 2 speaker output for dedicated channel, wouldn't the 2 speaker produce better sound (let's make it simple that it's identical speakers and let's forget about placement for now).
What I'm trying to say is, let's say we have 2 speakers playing dedicated channels, we remove one of the speaker and try to output both channels through 1 speaker instead. Which will sound better?
From my experience, I can tell the different and I don't like mono.
As for Studio Monitor, I'm just using it as an example as they are usually sold per piece compared to commercial speakers which usually comes in a set. We can also take keyboard amp for example, they sell per piece, which if you take one piece, you only get mono output and thus, mono quality. To get stereo quality, you will need to get another piece.