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Expensive loudspeakers that sound bad

steve59

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Interesting how some speakers are tuned for a specific type of music and we don't notice their deficiencies until trying different genres.
 

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Interesting how some speakers are tuned for a specific type of music and we don't notice their deficiencies until trying different genres.
The old Acoustic Research (AR) company, whose goal was a flat energy response, believed that a loudspeaker should sound good with all genres of music. My experience is that speakers with a flat response sound good with all genres. On the other hand, colored speakers tailor their response to a particular kind of music.
 

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I disagree. My salon 2's contoured my music tastes nearly as much as my kef R105/3's. those kef's were probably to this day the flattest measuring speakers made and they cut my listenable selection by 80%. Hi rez speakers are high risk high reward if someone like me doesn't have access to a wide batch of components to make them sing. I don't play or sing, have no degrees, but have lost a fair size pile of money on "perfect" speakers that didn't agree with the rest of my room and system. I don't think 2 channel speakers should be designed with the same criteria as home theater speakers either.
 
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