Efficient speakers -- What was your journey from A to B to ?

@hilde45,

Efficiency vs. Sensitivity:

See article below page one sec C:

https://www.lansingheritage.org/html/jbl/reference/notes/tech1-3a.htm

The video below explains impedance and the differences between efficiency and sensitivity.

Mike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNfpYncOQRc

@ditusa I've read about this distinction before, but obviously it didn't take! You can tell this is out of my area! I appreciate the reminders and the links. Thank you!

In layman terms,

a) Efficiency

b) Bass

c) Cabinet size (refrigerator size vs WAF size)

Pick 2 (ab, bc or ac)

But, there's a whole lot more advanced topics tied to driver design, quality, compromises, etc....

Yummy quality power is very affordable these days, i.e., it isn't the 70s. Pursuit of efficiency and exclusion of "supposedly inefficient" ear candy speakers is a silly thing to do in 2024 and an unnecessary restriction/compromise imposed on the engineering workspace. One would be surprised how little power the "supposedly inefficient" ear candy speakers actually use at deafness inducing spl levels.

Very hard to make efficiancy speaker, no refrigerator size, First- lowbass driver must be active to mach sinsitvity other driver, Horn tweeter is must, dont look whizzer cone -is the chip mechanical tweeter attached to main cone and have the poor performance . Mid bass is very important , becouce most of Full range Drivers got luck it, If you close to NY NJ or been on CAF or NY Audio show probably you know brand Bacheaudio , also tal a look

I owned Avantgarde Uno’s  in 2002 & then upgrade to the Duo’s in 2004 ( or so). Their macro & micro dynamics were so much better than anything I had ever heard in anything close to their price ranges. They sounded excellent at any volume level & could easily fill a big room w/ rich full bodied, life like music. I then moved to another house & could never really get their powered subs to integrate just right. They always seemed a slight bit behind the big midrange horn. I think Avantgardes are now offered w/ their amplification & digital processing which is probably worth giving a listen to. 
 

I sold them & got into a very surround sound system w/ all Dynaudio Contour speakers & sub w/ Anthem electronics as I was watching a lot movies as well as listening to music but eventually I decided to return to high sensitivity speakers. I listed to all of the Klipsch models but settled on Volti Audio Rivals. They are a good balance of big, dynamic, “live sounding”, highly sensitive speakers in a “ reasonable “ sized, not crazy looking, simply but very nicely finished cabinet.

I have listened to the smaller Volti Razz which are also quite good & give you much of the Rivals sound in a substantially smaller & less expensive option. Both of these are worth either a trip to TN to visit Greg Roberts or the next show that Volti exhibits. I also know he is working on a new cartoon of his top of the line Vittoria speakers that will probably be amazing if they’re in your price range.