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100db speakers - like your A7 VOTTs?! You can't be serious.

The only kind of speaker I'd be bothered to use - for hearing small changes at this level of 'experimenting' - is one with close to perfect impulse response. Sensitivity isn't an issue or a help here. Not at all.

Speed and waveform integrity does, which are orthogonal with timing. Minimally (distantly) miked music with as few mikes in coincident / other 'stereo' arrays, would also be essential.

After all, science has taught us that we get most information about music - the affective information, with an a Geoff, like you tell us you care about, from the starting transient of all acoustic instrument's notes.

Timbre, expression / intent, timing and interplay.

VOTT A7s were good speakers in their day, but yours still have most of their flaws. Poor FR, poor / inconsistent directivity, and early onset overload of the main driver, due to excursion problems.

{;-)!!!!!!!!

Confirmation bias, run riot.


Warmest

Tim Bailey

Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger



Edits: 08/19/16 08/19/16

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