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.
@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. |
For clarity ( no pun intended ) it is the Klipsch model Lascala, Revision AL5 that was just reviewed by Stereophile, but it IS part of the Heritage line. Klipsch does have a model called the Heresy, which also has been around a long time, which has also gone through many iterations. My best always, MrD. |
It’s funny how them junk infinity’s as some call them still sound as good or better in some cases then what is being produced today at 5 times the cost. Yes the crossovers was a pain to work with but back in the early and mid 80’s they was state-of-the-art the art. The IRS beta can go against about any 30,000 dollar speaker made today. And yes you should have to rebuild them now hell they are going on 40 years old. So yes stuff wears out. I own a set of Kappa 9.1 series 2 and I would put them up against any speaker made today under 15,000 dollars. |
