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RE: Altec Flamenco's - Trumpets sound thin

"It could simply be the nature of the speaker doesn't please you on trumpets."

Or, it could be that an old 15" 2-way honky-horn design doesn't reproduce sound as well as some people like to think it does.

Or, it could be that the recordings don't accurately reproduce the sound of a trumpet, whichever trumpet recording might be the subject - not that there's any variation - and some of them sound better on some speakers than others.

Or, the listener actually has a good understanding of the sound of a trumpet and of trumpet recordings, and these speakers really do suck.

Or, 15" woofers really aren't good for reproducing 1000 Hz.

Or, or, or, ...

Audio waveforms are audio waveforms, whether it's a trumpet, a sax, a violin, piano, etc.

A speaker either reproduces a waveform more-or-less accurately, or it doesn't.

Nostalgia, being the very strong influence that it is, it can be hard to accept the fact that, as good as some of these old designs were back in the day, many of them have glaring shortcomings when compared to today's standards of "high fidelity".




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