High Efficiency Speaker Asylum

Posted by tube wrangler (M) on July 21, 2017 at 21:38:52

In Reply to: RE: What qualifies as a high efficency speaker? posted by Travis on July 21, 2017 at 17:47:16

It's really fairly simple:

What are your goals?

Do you want to have your speakers small in your room? That's NOT GOOD!
Are you subject to WAF? (wife acceptance factor).

OR would you like to have a decent facsimile of a real audio event appear
in your listening area?

Would you be satisfied with only correct tonality? (many are).

OR would you like to sample the intentions and attitudes of the musicians
on your recordings?

Do you value correct event timing and having the vertical components
of your speaker's output in the right place, or are you satisfied with slicing music into separate horizontal stripes, (caused by vertical stacking of drivers) thereby entirely destroying any possibility of reproducing a real musical event?

Do you wish to sample the powerful dynamics that are on all good
recordings, or are you satisfied with amplifiers that put out lots of power but won't give you the dynamic picture in real time?

The ultimate in all of these things, and more, is MINIMUM WATTS, and
MAXIMUM speaker efficiency from a POINT SOURCE ONLY. This, of course, demands speaker cables and interconnects that are extremely efficient
also.

A minimum watt amplifier must have a maximum power supply to
work. It must be clean, but much more importantly, it must charge
and recharge fast enough to complete one musical event before the next one comes. It must also sort-out many musical events all happening at
once in order to be truly convincing.

Only you can answer these questions: what do YOU want? How far will you go before you stop improving your setup?

-Dennis-

Edits: 07/21/17   07/21/17