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In Reply to: RE: Making the move to high efficiency seems impossible... posted by PranaBindu on March 21, 2012 at 13:29:58
from the usual sources. That is the nature of genuine high efficiency systems. They ares pretty far left of centre and not appealing to a wide portion of the audio equipment buying market. Many polarise opinion, though this is not purely a function of being high efficiency or horn. Most of us have to invest effort as well as $$$ to obtain a suitable quality high efficiency system.I really don't know what readily-available high efficiency speakers to suggest. When I was looking about 9 months ago I found very few I would opt for... Sonist? Pi? Maybe Tannoy (if you have lowish impedance amps)? Zu would not float my boat, but may suit you?
I ended up coordinating a custom design and build, which should arrive any day now... Some learning, (actually, lots of threads and a few articles read over the course of a few years to help me understand the inherent strengths and compromises of various approaches), a leap of faith and ~$6K5+ was all it took.
Cheers.
Edits: 03/22/12Follow Ups:
... and it's no surprise that all your effort led you to a custom design/build. Once you know what you want that well, no one will have exactly what you want. I hope it totally rocks your boat!
I hadn't heard of Sonist or Pi. I'll check them out. Thanks!
May the bridges we burn light our way....
I spent a lot of time non-critically researching... just some knowledge build up over a few years without having defined any particular ideal/direction. It helped me it understand what I would like to achieve with my system.
The custom build has a few more compromises than I would like, but was the most likely to deliver a fair portion of the important stuff, while meeting suiting my practical constraints. Should be nice. If it works out I might put together a document outlining how a similar result could be achieved, but will not compromise any contributors' intellectual property.
I hope you find what you are looking for.
Cheers.
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