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In Reply to: RE: Speaker Debates posted by jsm71 on November 21, 2014 at 05:29:44
I am not trying to make myself feel good about my purchase at all. That came naturally. Now that I have tried a high efficiency speaker and like it I was wondering what professionals Ie. magazine writers speaker engineers think of high efficiency speakers compared to your typical multiway speakers.....
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Re: "professional" here's my background: audio amateur from the age of 12 or so; acoustical engineer in aerospace for a career, now designing tube amplifiers to supplement my retirement but my first love is still loudspeakers.
It is clearly easier to obtain a desired measurement using relatively low-efficiency speakers and relatively complex crossovers. I fully expect some arguments on that - this is an asylum after all! - but as an overview I'll stand by it. I also readily admit that this approach is more cost-effective (smaller boxes) and that might affect the conclusion.
In the other hand, in my experience, a certain quality of naturalness and immediacy is lost any time you increase complexity or reduce efficiency. But reducing efficiency and increasing complexity can always reduce coloration and distortion (if done right). When I have done (DIY) speaker designs I have observed this with great regularity. Any "finished" design will end up making a compromise between these poles.
Beyond plausible but unproven theories, I have no explanation for the virtues of high efficiency and low complexity, whereas the opposite approach has plenty of supporting data. But as I said, I'm as much audio enthusiast as engineer, so I try to split the difference. :^)
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