In Reply to: RE: General speaker design characteristics for a 2A3 amp posted by tube wrangler on April 12, 2017 at 21:45:41:
Attacks and decays matter far more to our hearing and affective systems than do continuous tones and their harmonics.Electrostatic speakers are very efficient, but they are not at all sensitive.
I've not heard any speakers that get closer to the sound of real stereo of acoustic music than 'stats can, if set up right.
Large efficient boxes - esp. horns - can get close, but no cigar.
I've been a chorister since age nine, and went through the RSCM's training. And I listen to live acoustic music at least once a week.
You seem to be confused between sensitivity and efficiency. Efficiency matters, sensitivity is far less important.
BTAgain your being confused about audio as a system, is not knew to us here.
In any work requiring systems analysis (audio IS is a systems problem) there can, for some, be a proneness to going down 'interesting rat-holes'.
Trouble with the kind of thinking that gets you down there and keeps you there / makes it quite hard to get back up and out.
Interesting rat-holes are a waste of time.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 04/13/17
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Follow Ups
- Low inertia of the moving masses, so as to get closer to the mechanical impedance of air, is what matters! - Timbo in Oz 18:52:55 04/13/17 (7)
- RE: Low inertia of the moving masses, so as to get closer to the mechanical impedance of air, is what matters! - tube wrangler 07:50:34 04/14/17 (2)
- RE: Low inertia of the moving masses, so as to get closer to the mechanical impedance of air, is what matters! - Don Reid 10:20:46 04/14/17 (1)
- RE: Low inertia of the moving masses, so as to get closer to the mechanical impedance of air, is what matters! - tube wrangler 19:12:46 04/14/17 (0)
- Having been a chorister under Stephen Cleobury - jusbe 04:21:38 04/14/17 (3)
- we actually get characteristic timbre from attacks and decays alone. This is old science, and predates stereo - Timbo in Oz 14:52:31 04/14/17 (2)
- RE: we actually get characteristic timbre from attacks and decays alone. This is old science, and predates stereo - used-hifi 15:26:14 04/14/17 (1)
- Yes, I am aware of that 'problem' FREDs are very low distortion. - Timbo in Oz 15:55:22 04/14/17 (0)