Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s?

And when one of the speaker manufacturer’s main businesses is higher power amplifiers, even less incentive, perhaps even negative incentive

Why?

Of course there is several reasons. 

One big reason is looks and with that WAF.

As a designer it starts here:

Hoffman’s Iron Laws of Speaker Building

1) Bass Extension

2) Efficiency

3) Small Enclosure

So you can choose two and the third is given to you.

If you want more extended Bass Extension and high efficiency (sensitivity) then you will have that but you will not get that in a small enclosure!

So you need a big ugly speaker enclosure and the market is not going for that. Sorry.

If you go for high efficiency (sensitivity) and a small enclosure then the bass extension is gone. That is not HiFi if you don't can hear full range.

But there is manufacturers that makes higher sensitivity and higher ohm speakers. So it is just to look elsewhere.

Here is two that heard FR30

please check out the Canadians Tri-Art Audio while you’re there.

you’ll be glad you did. 👍

I wonder what Paul is doing with his IRS V's now?