the natural world is full of diffraction, most sterile audiophile rooms lack it bigtime...except for the forest of amplifiers blocking the path to the turntable ( which should be off to the side )
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
My first thread at AG.
Millercarbon continues to bleat on about the benefits of high sensitivity speakers in not requiring big amplifier watts.
After all, it's true big amplifiers cost big money. If there were no other factors, he would of course be quite right.
So there must be other factors. Why don't all speaker manufacturers build exclusively high sensitivity speakers?
In a simple world it ought to be a no-brainer for them to maximise their sales revenue by appealing to a wider market.
But many don't. And in their specs most are prepared to over-estimate the sensitivity of their speakers, by up to 3-4dB in many cases, in order to encourage purchasers. Why do they do it?
There must be a problem. The one that comes to mind is sound quality. It may be that high sensitivity speakers have inherently poorer sound quality than low sensitivity speakers. It may be they are more difficult to engineer for high SQ. There may be aspects of SQ they don't do well.
So what is it please?
Millercarbon continues to bleat on about the benefits of high sensitivity speakers in not requiring big amplifier watts.
After all, it's true big amplifiers cost big money. If there were no other factors, he would of course be quite right.
So there must be other factors. Why don't all speaker manufacturers build exclusively high sensitivity speakers?
In a simple world it ought to be a no-brainer for them to maximise their sales revenue by appealing to a wider market.
But many don't. And in their specs most are prepared to over-estimate the sensitivity of their speakers, by up to 3-4dB in many cases, in order to encourage purchasers. Why do they do it?
There must be a problem. The one that comes to mind is sound quality. It may be that high sensitivity speakers have inherently poorer sound quality than low sensitivity speakers. It may be they are more difficult to engineer for high SQ. There may be aspects of SQ they don't do well.
So what is it please?
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The GR Research high sensitivity speakers are, in a word, stunning. I had a pair of the old Super V's. Then a pair of Wedgies on top of 2x12 open baffle servo subs (flat to 20Hz at brutal levels). I'm getting ready to build a pair of NX-Tremes. Once one goes to really good open baffle speakers it is very, VERY hard to consider anything else. Watch these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYP-XErZHu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xxFKVC2Xro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgoR2PLEZsk |
i spent a decent amount of my career in anechoic chambers testing advanced technology, simple stuff , some suborbital. my prefered vendor of loudspeakers ( since 1977 ) actually have and use a chamber for development and importantly production, doing the precise work of tuning to a standard and nulling. Do you have a chamber ? |
@audio2design , Thank you for the link to the article. It is so sad that most audiophiles don't care about this one of the most important characteristics for speakers SQ.High efficient designs sound more alive, with better texture, micro and macro dynamics.In contrast - the high compression of low sensitive speakers masks important music information and causes listener fatigue. In addition, most audiophiles don't have a clue how good sound tube SET amplifiers (with the proper high efficiency speakers) are compared to any transistor amplifier design. Regards, Alex. |
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