High sensitivity speakers cost more to make and lets not forget that higher efficiency speakers with higher impedance cost even more to make but it all comes down to good quality design for any speaker to make them perform and sound good you will know when you find the right one for your ears because all sounds will just sound right to your ears.
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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Guys, it's simply not true to make a statement that a higher sensitivity speaker is more costly to make. Drivers, cabinet material, R&D, spikes, connectors, wire, glues, finishes.... and of course how many points dealers get to sell them if selling through conventional means will determine costs, not sensitivity. |
Hi ctsooner. Others have said that higher sensitivity speakers have to be larger in order to transduce low frequencies at the correct levels. Also that driver manufacturing tolerances are tighter. Both these increase costs. But if that's not correct then you must go back to my original post and tell me why all manufacturers don't build high sensitivity speakers, rather than only a small minority. |
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