Tony L
Administrator
Plenty has changed and moved on, speakers are not just drivers stuffed into birch ply boxes with a simple hand wired x-over. Advancements in design have been huge, advanced materials may not have much effect; in the bigger picture of things we have moved on - IMHO of cause
I find the move to modern cabinet materials and design the most interesting development by far of recent years, it's one of the reasons I'd love to spend some time with say a pair of Event Opals as I bet they are very free of cabinet artefacts for what is a fairly small ported speaker. The problem I have is there are few if any companies scaling this technology up beyond what I'd describe as nearfield monitors. Where are the big full-range designs that can really shift some air about? And no, subs are not any substitute for properly integrated and time aligned stereo bass. Proper bass starts at 12", anything less is a midrange unit.
This is not to say I don't like little near-field monitors, I do a lot, but it depresses me that they, along with feeble narrow baffle & small driver lifestyle / home audio floorstanders is about all that's on offer these days. Where are the good big 'uns?
Tony.