@bdp24 is spot on!
We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often
Sorry I know this is a bit of a rant, but come on people!!
Too many audiophiles find speakers which are hard to drive and... stick with them!
We need to reject hard-to-drive speakers as being Hi-Fi. Too many of us want our speakers to be as demanding as we are with a glass of wine. "Oh, this speaker sounds great with any amplifier, but this one needs amps that weigh more than my car, so these speakers MUST sound better..."
Speakers which may be discerning of amplifier current delivery are not necessarily any good at all at playing actual music.
That is all.
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There are plenty of people enjoying their "hard to drive" speakers likely with no idea they’re hard to drive. They somehow managed to buy an amp that works (i.e. just about any decent amp)...for shame! Don’t they sit through endless egomaniac John DeVore youtube videos? (and maybe pay through the nose for a plywood box with 2 drivers because, hey man, it's 10 ohms) Or read every tedious tech review attached to Stereophile reviews? You mean they just sit there and enjoy music and have NO IDEA their speakers are horribly flawed? Wow man...what a shame... |
@wolf-garcia: Well whatta ya know, someone else who considers John DeVore a smug, sanctimonious kinda guy! I haven’t heard any of his speakers (which may sound great; Art Dudley, Ken Micallef, and Steve Guttenberg certainly thought/think so), but they sure don’t appear to be priced according to the industry-standard price-of-parts X 7. I guess DeVore considers his time much more valuable than that of mere mortals. |
@bdp24 I'm appreciating your comments and I've heard DeVore speakers and the SuperNines sounded awesome. There are so many excellent speakers available, so when I saw the price the speakers didn't make there way into my home. To be fair there's a lot of excellent audio equipment my wallet has eliminated from consideration... |
Since my wife doesn't like my speakers but we both love of tube gear, we're keeping our tube gear and now looking for efficient 'enough' speakers. I mean, my amp has 150wpc in pentode mode so what might be the problem? Woofers. But there are efficient speakers with built-in class D amplifiers that release the burden of your fine tube gear playing full range. Let the tube gear focus on the mids and tweets where the majority of the music lives. Maybe I'll find out one day. |
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