Worst measuring loudspeaker?

[Phorize]

https://pearlacoustics.com/

I’ll wager it’s a design like these, for which you will never see a designer release measurements. Could just be a prejudice of mine of course; what right do I to say that stuffing a car audio speaker into a plywood box and agreeing with your self that it sounds good enough to warrant a £4500 price tag isn’t a valid approach?

 

[egellings]

My impression of the Klipsch Horn sound was that the bass was punchy and did not go low, midrange was a bit forward and treble was also a bit overdone. Not a fan. Gotta love the efficiency, though.

 

[Doodski]

My impression of the Klipsch Horn sound was that the bass was punchy and did not go low, midrange was a bit forward and treble was also a bit overdone. Not a fan. Gotta love the efficiency, though.

The first Klipsch Horn that I heard on a 35W/Ch Hitachi integrated sounded snappy and fantastic with this song. A bit of a bright sounding song for some. The owner kept playing the song every time I visited because it sounded so good but as you say on some material it sounds a bit off.

 

[egellings]

It's in the ear of the beholder, I guess. Whatever tickles your nun-handles.

 

[thewas]

A new candidate

Multico ML68 Loudspeakers - UBSOUND

High quality tower loudspeakers with 4 independent 2-way coaxial dynamic drivers. Entirely Made in Italy. 400W - 8 Ohm

www.ubsound.com

 

[richard12511]

A new candidate

Multico ML68 Loudspeakers - UBSOUND

High quality tower loudspeakers with 4 independent 2-way coaxial dynamic drivers. Entirely Made in Italy. 400W - 8 Ohm

www.ubsound.com

Damn, that's a weird design. 3 coaxial tweeter/woofers on the front?

 

[thewas]

Damn, that's a weird design. 3 coaxial tweeter/woofers on the front?

And one on the bottom radiating to the floor

 

[egellings]

They have that kabuki look to me.

 

[HammerSandwich]

$15k, and they can't recess the drivers & binding posts?!??

 

[Ultrasonic]

$15k, and they can't recess the drivers & binding posts?!??

Ah, but you're neglecting the fact that, "Each driver is equiped with an L-shaped outer ring made from sound-absorbing wood."

For anyone who hasn't scrolled down far enough to see it there is an output measurement of sorts on the product page:

 

[Katji]

Ah, but you're neglecting the fact that, "Each driver is equiped with an L-shaped outer ring made from sound-absorbing wood."

I was thinking about what you could do with sound-absorbing wood, like lowering the SPL so you'd have to turn up the volume...then I realised it said L-shaped and ...wtf. L-shaped ring. ....................................Mus' be Lord Of The Rings or something.

 

[Ultrasonic]

I was thinking about what you could do with sound-absorbing wood, like lowering the SPL so you'd have to turn up the volume...then I realised it said L-shaped and ...wtf. L-shaped ring. ....................................Mus' be Lord Of The Rings or something.

It just means it has an L-shaped cross-sectional profile, so that it wraps around the edge of the driver. Look at the pictures on the product page if you don't understand what I mean.

 

[mtg90]

I present to you the LYX SPA8-PAS:

And Rockville SPG88:

 

[sweetchaos]

I present to you the LYX SPA8-PAS:
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And Rockville SPG88:
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What’s the source of these spinoramas, might I ask?

 

[mtg90]

They are my own measurements taken on a 10' tall motorized turntable I recently built. Measurements are taken at 2m (graphs adjusted to 2.83v/1m level), gated at 14ms, 1/48th octave smoothing.

 

[sweetchaos]

@mtg90 Nicely done.

Can you share the full spinorama data (in a zip file), so we can calculate the preference score and add to pierre's website? @pierre Can do that for you.

Also, consider creating a new thread to discuss each speaker. Similar to what @napilopez does.

 

[mtg90]

Here is the spin data for both,

Though I'm not sure it's worth clogging up the forum with separate threads for such trash measuring cheap PA speakers unless people really want to see the rest of the graphs on these two speakers. They are a true mess, can be literally headache inducing trying to follow the lines.

 

[Dennis Murphy]

They are my own measurements taken on a 10' tall motorized turntable I recently built. Measurements are taken at 2m (graphs adjusted to 2.83v/1m level), gated at 14ms, 1/48th octave smoothing.

What measurement software are you using?

 

[mtg90]

REW for measuring and VituixCAD to generate the spins.

 

[carewser]

Do we have a thread already if we have my apologies,
Is this the worst,
https://www.stereophile.com/content/klipsch-klipschorn-ak6-loudspeaker-measurements
I have only heard a Klipsch loudspeaker on two occasions,

Keith

From that review; "The Klipschorn's measured behavior reveals that the performance parameters that are generally held in the 21st century to correlate with good sound quality in both the time and frequency domains have been compromised to achieve that astonishingly high sensitivity"

Jesus, talk about euphemizing. In other words, they sound like shit

I guess if sensitivity is all that matters for that big brash sound one of the Klipsch Heritage Series would appeal to people but it's an engineering marvel how Klipsch has been able to squeeze such little bass out of such, big, heavy, expensive speakers and that's why they've never appealed to a basshead like me