Speaker Asylum

We pick out poison when it comes to speakers....

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In Reply to: RE: If you can prove this otherwise, please do so. posted by morricab on May 09, 2008 at 06:00:19

A speaker cone does not and cannot move as fast or as far as the signal that drives it. There is a loss. This loss is measurable. Speakers never sound like the real live event.

We pick our poison so to speak. We understand that our speakers are unable to adequately express the signal. We are willing to live with a lesser sound quality in spite of the difference.

I have had people buy speakers for just the bass response, or just or the way they hit the highs. JG Holt wrote an article in Stereophile about how he felt the emphasis should be on buying speakers that could communicate the midrange correctly.

For those of us who are musicians, speaker builders and electronic nuts, we are looking for the best way to get what we need to hear.

Speakers are getting better. I know because I have been building my own for 35 years. I find the sound to be improving dramatically now with computer modeling, improving high quality manufacturing tolerances, and superior materials engineering.

I love what I hear today more than at any time in my life. Speakers are still the weak link in the reproduction chain. The future does look bright and I enjoy listening to or playing music more than any other hobby.

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