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In Reply to: The speaker knows not what it is playing... posted by rlw on April 8, 2015 at 10:53:10:
I tend to agree with you that this is the goal. What I find is that the compromises in the speaker/system dictate much of the discussion on what a given speaker is good at. A good single driver speaker has some advantages on small scale music with human voice - no crossovers and are supremely coherent - single drivers would include non hybrid panels.
Generally speaking the weakness is full range dynamics, bass prowess and treble extension. Big monstrosity speakers tend to do this well but move further away from sounding cohesive and while it can do large scale rock - it tends to do much worse on "girl at a piano" kind of music where you are largely focusing your ear on the vocal and not the bass guitar or drum set.
So I "get" why people say speaker X is better suited for one kind of music over others - ideally you would have a single point in space speaker (a single 1 inch driver) capable of 15-22khz producing 120db with zero audible distortion and perfect polar response, phase etc.
As someone who loves Piano and singers like Eva Cassidy, but also loves to put on AC/DC and the likes of Noisia, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Nightwish, Taiko Drums, etc.
For me I want the system to play nuance well but get up and pound when required.
At $1500 it's difficult to have it all.
It's not a matter of playing the music - it's a matter of it pelting you in the chest at levels the artists intends - this kind of thing has a certain intensity and chest pounding desire that won't be met with the likes of the Totem Model One.
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