Well what about using car audio speakers for a home setup (custom boxes)...how you think they would stand up against mass produced items.??
modern car audio speakers can produce some amazing sound . . . but getting them to work properly in a home environment can be challanging. For starters, car speakers tned to have a lower resistance compared to home speakers (usually 2O or 4O compared to 6O or 8O); generally, car speakers have a higher nominal wattage requirement, as the drivers for the speaker itself tend to be a lot larger and more robust - car stereos therfore, are designed to push the proper amount of power to these units, whereas home stereos and recievers are designed for the higher impedance and lower power requirements of home speakers.
Not saying it can't be done - just that a proper setup would be a challange.
Then, there's the issue of an enclosure . . . car audio speakers tend to have very, very rigid cones - these, in turn, move a lot of air, both in front of, and behind the speaker itself. If the enclosure isn't matched well for the speaker, it can muddy reproduction - in some cases even canceling out certain frequencies.
Someone please tell me how you can hear someone sneaking up on you when you have headphones on.
you'd have to hear it to believe it. 5.1 headphones are much better for this, but, Creative's CMSS-3D feature, and having the console set up for headphones, can be quite amazing in itself. Although, any 3D positioning feature is best suited for the more number of speakers you have, Creative's solution, IMHO, is better than any other manufacturers so far . . .
and it has a lot to do with their acquisition of Aureal and Aureal3D years ago, who had perfected many of the features that Creative used for EAX . . . most especially, sound positioning and occlusion.
I've heard CMSS-3D able to accomplish thigns with simple 2-channel headphones that ASUS' and Razer's 3D positioning can't even touch . . .
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