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Suggestions for high efficiency speakers?

I attended the Capital Audiofest and thought the Audio Note room had the best sound to my ears. Another attendee from Florida had a copy of "A Night in Tunisia" and it sounded like you were sitting in Art Blakey's chair with his drums right there in front of you. I want that palpability, that "you are there" sound I think low watt amps and high efficiency speakers deliver better than any other combination.

 

A couple years ago I heard the DeVore 96s at the same show and loved their sound, anyone know of other speakers that give the same sensations?

 

My system is a SOTA Sapphire w Sumiko MMT and Zu-modified Denon 103 into an Art Audio Vinyl One phono pre into a Lamm LL2 Deluxe pre into an Art Audio Jota SET power amp and into Joseph RM25 sigs.

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holes3
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i am using creek5350 intergrated amp with paradigm studio 100v2 no tubes no problems, just the best 

these speakers are rated at 94spl,but do not like tubes...no bass... tubes are inefficiant to produceing bass.maybe if you use sub woffers.whitch i will not buy because the sound i get from this system  is anything but miraculoushave a good day     thanks don.

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"i am using creek5350 intergrated amp with paradigm studio 100v2 no tubes no problems, just the best "

Congratulations and it's good that you are happy with your audio system. High End audio allows very specific and individual taste to be satisfied. In my opinion and admittedly based on my preferences the Creek amplifiers are not remotely in the same performance sphere  as the OP's Art Audio Jota SET amplifier. Eternally, to each their own.

Charles 

 

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Bass is not an issue for the Jota.

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That was a bit elusive, yes. I tried to touch upon that using a sub setup the way I outlined as being my preference is a matter of having a different "design" goal - i.e.: high-passing the mains fairly high to a pair of subs, (the need for) symmetrical subs placement, high sensitivity, pro drivers, very large overall size and usually not direct radiation - all in the service of loads of headroom in the lower frequencies (that translates into easy of reproduction and very low distortion) and optimum integration. 

@phusis 

If you're crossing higher than about 80-100 Hz, won't you have to place the subs very near the rest of the speaker system?

I get the desire for a high efficiency sub- that prevents thermal compression from being as profound. FWIW I only have 2 of Duke's Swarm subs, as my CAL T-3s take care of everything down to 20Hz in the front of the room. Even at very high volumes, I'v found that the Swarm's drivers aren't moving much. I imagine that could be very different in a bigger room. They are really only there to break up the standing wave though, and apparently don't have to move as much as the front woofers (dual 15" in each cabinet) to do so. So I'm not concerned about thermal compression in this case.

 

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