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Slightly differnt perspective on this. Horns or even accoustic guide assisted speakers are typically more efficient and often much more efficient than dome / ribbon tweeter based design. More efficient = less energy required to reach the same SPL. Just turn it up more, right? Nah, it's not quite...

I've heard differences in line leveled DAC's, particularly the late 90's and early 2000 that were liked getting kicked in the head. We did A/B/X comparisons with people who admitted they had wooden ears and even they could easily spot the differences and double blind confrm what DAC was what...

This follows me theory that one reason high end speakers cost so much more and typically deliver flatter response is they are having drivers made to much higher tolerances and limited production runs even though the actual driver components are made the same. Engineer designs a nice flat speaker...

Has anyone actually listened to vinyl objectively vs a well mastered CD with a good DAC? Just turned your ego off and just focused on the differences? Vinyl, due to the way sound waves are reproduced via groves in the record impacting a stylus ever so subtly exaggerates detail, especially in...

I'm going to betcha that the low sensitivity was a result of not compromising on the crossover to get as neutral a response as possible from both those drivers. And / or these are off the shelf drivers that don't quite match in terms of dB levels, so the tweeter was brought down a bit vs making...

I wouldn't disagree with that, but, there's one difference. As neurotic as the studio crowd is and dripping with caffeine from their pores they tend to have picky ears and and aren't interested in the color of cables or unobtanium wrapped interconnects. :-) Again, I always liked the sound of...

I'm looking ay these things and reading reviews, and walking away scratching my head. No, it's biased envy towards the people that buy them. These beasts do address shortcomings in multi driver designs with time alignment, and I've heard older Wilson's back in the audio showroom I used to work...

Going back to my hifi selling days. You guys ever notice that the really, really high end speakers all tend to be effing HUGE? Either these massive horns you could rent as an apartment in tokyo, or huge arrays with stupid amounts of piston area or ribbon / planar hybrids. Our ears are most...

The problem is that most thin profile speakers are mostly compromise. MTMs do really good in a thin design, but now most of these low profile speakers are just doubling up piston area for bass. If they emphasized mid range detail and transient response thin speakers could carve a nice niche...

Friend of mine has a pair of older Legacy Focus, and those things are utterly brutal when it comes to subpar recordings, especially older rock.. The Focus are basically giant, 5-way monitors with an absurdly massive frequency range and damn near horn like sensitivity They are also d'apolito...

The amusing thing about Vinyl is it only succeeded as a recording medium because it was cheap to mass produce and had such low resolution it masks limitations in the recording process. 1/4" reel to reel thumps vinyl as an analog reproduction source in both a subjective and objective capacity...

When people come up to me at work and say "I have a question" I quickly answer 42. The reaction tells me the intelligence of the requestor.

OHM Walsh. Massive Soundstage and they like walls. BMRs will beat them on detail but lose on Soundstage.

I apologize if I've responded already on this, but to rehash my experience on this: About 20 years I used to sell high end audio. I only did it for a bit to make some extra cash, but I always had VIP access and made some great friends with the sales staff. If they needed a clinical set of ears...

Its not driver size as much as its mass that dictates clean spl at lower frequencies. Larger drivers typically have more mass than smaller ones, although the rule is not linear. The OP is dead correct. A 6.5 " driver cannot pressurize a standard room regardless of the size of box its put in an...