A little more

A little more

Posted by unclestu (D) on September 26, 2014 at 12:18:45

In Reply to: Your stated premise is not entirely accurate posted by John Marks on September 26, 2014 at 07:41:39:

Demian Martin of Spectral was an associate of Bruce Brisson of MIT,. Bruce designed the first set of cables for Monster, BTW utilizing the three gauge wire construction. IIRC Martin later was hired by Monster.
Underfunded, Brisson designed the cables for Monster with the proviso that he could also market it under his MIT nae and also under the Spectral name: same cable different labels.

Spectral issues were that the amplifiers, in particular, had super extended frequency response: basically as one designer pointed out, DC to light. For some speaker designs this was an issue, Particularly so with electrostatics which can have their impedance drop to below one ohm at the upper frequencies.

That being said, Marks is correct. Larger manufacturers will have various differing components in their labs to assess their own products. I knew Counterpoint had at least six different speakers to evaluate their amps and would rotate certain designs as the market would change.

Electronic manufacturers will often keep very difficult to drive speaker designs just to judge the stability of their product. This was particularly true when Apogee was popular and in existence. They required a very high current drive amplifier and at their introduction few manufacturers had such a product: ML, Krell, Sumo. This actually forced many manufacturers to redesign their product line.

Most manufacturers will NOT state what they use for fear of seeming to endorse certain products. In fact, when Rowland elected to distribute Avalon Speakers, the sales of both dropped as consumers began to feel (unjustified) that Avalons didn't sound good without Rowland and vice versa. Same thing occurred when CJ bought out the Sonographe speaker company

FWIW

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Your stated premise is not entirely accurate - John Marks 07:41:39 09/26/14 (3)

Good stuff, John. Thank you. * - Mike K 18:48:07 09/26/14 (0)

A little more - unclestu 12:18:45 09/26/14 (0)

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