@pma, although your experiments are very interesting from a technical perspective, it's clear from different comments they also cause confusion. That's a shame for a forum that aims to give insight. I think it would help if you could add your post with the conclusion about resistive and complex loads to the opening post?
It would, however I must clarify that topics like this also lead the willing to explore much further, within ~48 hours of asking that, I had reached
this level of understanding and in trawling through lots of historical posts and learning, many of
@pmas posts were both useful and insightful, remaining grounded throughout (along with many other's here of course).
@pma, I did appreciate your follow up post greatly, showing performance under more normal conditions, I'd already pulled the trigger but it was reaffirming to read.
I was in the wrong, I hadn't read the full thread thoroughly, I didn't ask questions where I was unsure, I simply said I don't understand so this must be noise can somebody tell if A will work with B pls.
I guess the only note I'd say, is that whilst many of your journey's are long, and the discourse here long running with lots of historical context, be aware that often people are hitting something you write as the first thing they see, with none of that knowledge or background, so providing a bit of context or quantification would help, even if that's just a review later and adding in a couple of edits (often to the richest comment, rather than the op, landing on p3 or p12 of a thread is normal).
However, the same can be said for most things on here, for example if a cheap integrated amp is reviewed, showing it's performance and distortion/imbalance etc at different "volume" levels, or pointing to some posts which explain and show how performance varies under different conditions (rca vs xlr, different gains, different power connectors, would help.
Those speakers are more sensitive than average. Put foam corks in port's to cut the port resonance, buy a subwoofer and high/low pass them at 80~100 Hz instead. If subwoofer is acceptable for you of course and better siled enclosure one.
Thanks for the input, honestly I can see myself working right through my stack again swapping things about, new speakers are not off the cards even though I've only had these for 2 weeks. I'll get everything between digital and speaker cables optimal, then look at speakers again, if mrs sonder doesn't kill me first.
I don't want to share details here, as taken it off topic too far already.
