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CHALLENGE: Best speakers for playing 1812 Overture by Eric Kunzel with real CANON at 92+dB

The 1812 Tchaikovsky by Eric Kunzel album is a life like recording with HUGE dynamic.
Its dynamic s so HUGE that playing it in average consumer system sound will sound bad, because the soft sound can't be heard at low volume setting, so volume has to be turn up much higher than typically set of other recording, but then when the loud section comes, it will tax the system because it will draw power and make the speaker work hard :-)

I want to know what has play this songs at 92dBA before the real canon section.
Many audio shops are scare to play the track 1 loud because of the real canon peak sound.

Luckily, I found opportunity to repeat Track 1, last few minutes section (last 5 minutes of the 15 minutes song) on several audio stores (Revel Ultima, Wilson, Focal, Sonus Faber), so far I think B&W N801 holds the record for ability to play the loudest at 92dBA and can handle the Canon section with the most lifelike dynamic.


asin
asin OP
33 posts
 
A lot of music recording sounds decent even on Sonos because the dynamic range is limited. 
I assume the appeal of hifi is the ability to "reproduce" good recording that has both soundstage and dynamic.

This particular 1812 overture by Eric Kunzel SACD has the life like huge dynamic so I was sharing my experience that it takes both AMP and good dynamic speakers to be able to reproduce the life like soundstage and dynamic. 

No one speaker is best for everything but I was impressed by B&W N801 for its ability to project the most realistic sound dynamic as if you were listening to the real life orchestra and not from a speaker box.

hshifi
572 posts
 
Hello,
You might want to go with Tekton. I am positive the Moab or double impacts can handle this. The Revel Salon 2s could handle this but we are talking a $17,000 difference in speaker cost. You could go with what speaker you like and add a JL Audio sub. I recommend the F113 for $4,700 and if you want next level add the crossover for $3,000. It gives you the easiest option to set the crossover for your front speakers and the sub. I also heard a very cool speaker the Emerald Physics speakers with the external crossover. Two 15” drivers with a horn tweeter. Open baffle design. The whole speaker setup was around $1,000 with the digital crossover. This could definitely handle the 1812 overture. If you are in the Chicagoland area and want to check this out and maybe try before you buy. https://holmaudio.com/
Very cool place to have some fun listening to some really good sounding gear but best of all not at outrageous prices. I have listened to some systems costing a few hundred dollars that sounded really good!
hedwigstheme
140 posts
 
This should help:  http://www.eminent-tech.com Then click on TRW-17.
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arcticdeth
1,572 posts
 
Those accordion surrounds, never gave me thumping bass, always bottomed them out, and they gave me a flicking paper sound, went with the half roll surround, never looked back.

  Had the CV 380SE black felt on speaker face, sounded great, but every bass kick drum, it would give that crack pop sound.
wanted those speakers so bad,......
oh well
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