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In Reply to: RE: I think that cheap active speakers use very cheap drivers posted by beppe61 on June 30, 2014 at 05:20:00
Have seen some cheap drivers in other speakers too.
Once the proud owner of this speaker, I once saw those tweeters in a catalog for $1.00 ea.
Might as well use four at that price!
Have fun
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Geez memories, a Rectilinear 4, a highly regarded speaker in its day. Julian Hirsch compared them to Quads. Of course that depended on which woofer they were buying at the time. But I think the four CTS tweeters(about $2.00 to $2.50 retail at the time) stayed the same. The Rectilinear X bookshelf was a more interesting speaker.
I thought my Rectilinears sounded great driven by my Sansui Eight reciever.
A gal I was dating had Advent Model 1's and a Pioneer reciever. I was at first in denial that her stereo sounded better than mine, but it did, the bass had definition and the mids had some depth.
After we got married we combined the four speakers for a while but the Advents won out and served us for 10 years.
I've never seen the smaller Rectilinear speaker.
It was rare, about the size of an AR2. What was unusual was that it used a series crossover and it was designed like an augmented 1 way speaker . The mid-range was crossed over at 100 Hz and 8 KHZ. I finally found a used one but ended up with IMF Studio 2 speakers.
Hi and yes ... maybe they were also good sounding ... in this sector everything is possible
I see powered speakers costing 150 USD ... and i sincerely wonder how it is possible
That have even a entire power amplifier inside
Then if you open them you see no brand drivers
They must be 20 USD pieces ? less ?
I think that maybe good and cheap tweeters can be found
Woofers are more difficult
But if even with this crap the speakers do sound good this tells a lot about the sanity of the active speakers approach, i think
Kind regards,
bg
Hi Beppe
Here's my favorite active speaker, heard the large one at RMAF a few years back, absolutely stunning sound, I should audition the smaller one, it's closer to my price range.
Hi and thanks for the interesting information
I like the solutions like the one depicted down in the page
With the bass in a cabinet separated by the mid-high section.
It is also easier to move.
Actually it is what i am really thinking.
A D'Appolito satellite + powerede woofer with active x-over
I have just to decide which part of the range send to the satellite
A small woofers one cannot take low frequencies without distorting the signal.
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
bg
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