Sidebar 3: In My Room
I measured the Nova Olympica 1's in-room frequency response with a digital track of uncorrelated pink noise and Studio Six Digital's Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) module in their Audiotool's smartphone app. I set this module to 1/6 octave, 1-second delay, flat frequency response plot, full frequency range (20Hz–16kHz), no peak tracking, averaging mode, and log frequency scale. I started by averaging five room responses across a 2' horizontal window at the level of my ears sitting in my listening chair. Averaged across this broad window, the Nova Olympic 1's frequency response was fairly flat between 40 and 16kHz, ±5dB (footnote 1).—Larry Greenhill
Footnote1: Although a suckout can be seen near the approximate 3kHz crossover frequency, which suggests that this measurement was taken above the tweeter axis. See JA's commentary on fig. 6 and his own in-room measurement, fig. 7, in the Measurements sidebar.—Jim Austin
Footnote1: Although a suckout can be seen near the approximate 3kHz crossover frequency, which suggests that this measurement was taken above the tweeter axis. See JA's commentary on fig. 6 and his own in-room measurement, fig. 7, in the Measurements sidebar.—Jim Austin
