Julf
Facts are our friends
Not in my experience.
how big is your woofer, how big is your box, what's your sensitivity
- Thread starter Joe P
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Not in my experience.
daytona600
Registered User
10inch , transmission Line , 94dB , 60litres DSP with 900watts
Greg
2t5b
60kg, 1 meter tall at the head, very sensitive, quite hairy. Loyal.
Mono only at the moment
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12", 1.3m tall, 67Kg each, 92dB and 178 litres.
As to high efficiency being traded for high fidelity, it all depends on the design and execution. Cabinets certainly become harder to engineer without increasing colouration unless a lot of thought is applied to the structural design. Large drivers generally have lower excursions so can (with decent stiff but well damped cones) produce far less distortion than small long throw drivers.
I get sick of know-it-alls who in truth actually (obviously?) know very little talking cobblers when saying things like large high efficiency designs are for PA use only. Perhaps it's because the only speakers of substance they've ever heard are PA speakers.
In general, there appears to me to be more of a glut of small badly engineered poor sounding inefficient speakers than there are large high quality sensitive Hifi speakers. The latter tend to come at a cost and need a bigger room. Two disadvantages that most of us sadly can't really overcome!
As to high efficiency being traded for high fidelity, it all depends on the design and execution. Cabinets certainly become harder to engineer without increasing colouration unless a lot of thought is applied to the structural design. Large drivers generally have lower excursions so can (with decent stiff but well damped cones) produce far less distortion than small long throw drivers.
I get sick of know-it-alls who in truth actually (obviously?) know very little talking cobblers when saying things like large high efficiency designs are for PA use only. Perhaps it's because the only speakers of substance they've ever heard are PA speakers.
In general, there appears to me to be more of a glut of small badly engineered poor sounding inefficient speakers than there are large high quality sensitive Hifi speakers. The latter tend to come at a cost and need a bigger room. Two disadvantages that most of us sadly can't really overcome!
TimF
pfm Member
Joe, I can see the value in both sides of the coin, I absolutely love my Shahinian Obelisk 2's, 8" woofer, 89 db efficiency. But, if space and money would allow me, I would also have a second system with something efficient/amplifier friendly like Klipsch Cornwalls, or if going more expensive, maybe Devore Orangutan 093/96er's or maybe Trenner & Friedl Pharoah/Ra speakers. Each side has the positives and negatives/tradeoffs of some sort, and I agree, the balance sheet doesn't have to be lack of fidelity. Tim
Whaleblue
Southbound
You're joking, right?
dave
Plywood King
No.
Whaleblue
Southbound
darrenyeats
pfm Member
45mm
105 dB SPL/V
0 litres (semi-open backed)
I refer to what's on my head at the moment (AKG Q701).
Note with the free bass port mod*, bass is no longer light but neutrally balanced, and I think these are now an all-round steal for the money.
*http://earfisensation.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/akg-q701.html - generic 701 bass mod popular on head-fi.
105 dB SPL/V
0 litres (semi-open backed)
I refer to what's on my head at the moment (AKG Q701).
Note with the free bass port mod*, bass is no longer light but neutrally balanced, and I think these are now an all-round steal for the money.
*http://earfisensation.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/akg-q701.html - generic 701 bass mod popular on head-fi.