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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.

erik_squires
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@atmasphere

i completely follow what you are saying... i actually used paul’s zeros years ago when i was trying to run maggies driven by roger mojeski’s rm9 tube amp... you are right, when the amp really can’t handle the load, the autoformer poses no tradeoff... its autoformer or no music...

i was curious on the sonic degradation if used on an easy to drive speaker

also, i had never thought of using them with solid state amps! makes perfect sense, the autoformer provides any amp with greater electrical 'leverage'  irrespective of amp type...  ok i am going to try to find those zeros in my storage closet this weekend, maybe i still have em!

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@ditusa --

Very good article by Floyd E. Toole - thank you :)

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@phusis :

You're welcome, glad you liked it :-)

Mike

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