Explains the infatuation with small, FR speakers.
Without disparaging the OP, the budding audiophile can learn from this thread.
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You would be very surprised at one of Ricahrd Gray's ~~~ Guess what speaker or amp (he perforams both tricky blind auditions) is now playing behind the curtain. ~~~ He chuckles as to how often seasoned audiphiles can get their guesses WRONG, some folks get hoy headed to the point ofa fist in the face.
So small room yes, but even ina larger setting a high fidelty 8 FR will knock your socks off.
Yet can also accustom itself to a small room setting with pleasant richness, never ever do you feel under attack, as with the other <brands>
As to 2nd point, Correct. That is the main goal of this thread.
Had someone wayyy back in 2000ish when I opened one of Agons longest running threads, ~~Speaker Shootout at the OK Corral~~~ seems in all the k'sm of posts, somehow i missed out on the FR alternative, Electro stats were HUGE favor back then, so they along with xover brand took up most of my attention.
I knew i did not like SET sound, so FR somehow got deleted from my serious considertion.
Now some 20 years later, I am FR/wide band /high sensitivity worlds biggest fan-atic.
Guess you can;t tell
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anyway. sure glad Douglas saw through my rants as to the main goal of this topic.
Newbies can now look at the speaker mountain from different angles and make their own wise, well researched decision
In these troubled times, makinga speaker purchase can be a 1 time event for some newbies here.
They wish to make it count.
Besides note the speaker board, 99% is all about xover traditional designs.
I feel thats a bit biased if not tunnel vision.
FR technology has come alonggg way, lets not shove FR off the table.
Fr will give xover low sens speakers a run for their money in comming decades.
Its just a matter of EDU and time.
I can see a new revolution in speaker choices.
Remember when we would go ina audio store and ck out the rooms full of all sorts of xover designs,, hahaha, I picked the Philips 2 way, paper 8 woofer, nice tweeter.
I thought they were the most cleanest,, Then I placed the next to the Thors and dumped the Philips 425's for $50 on craigslist.
Now i am dumping the Thors.
Never could go back-wards to xover low sensitivity speakers.
But hey whatever floats your boat.
