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Has anyone use PA speakers for home hifi purpose. Most PA speakers are 100db and more and would be perfect for single ended. Just curious..........
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Yup - PA gear, and they're under $2k. They need some eq and need the grilles removed, but after that they're amazing.
The Altec 1505 with the two 228C compression drivers were PA all the way. Same with the 311-60 and 311-90. The A7 bottoms were also used as PA and theater speakers. There was also DuKane and Frazier. Cheers.
Old red leather chair with duct tape. VOT cabinets, records in a box, shoes on the coffee table.I suspect you are not married.
Like many 'PA' speakers of the '60s-'70s these Altecs were originally intended for use in theaters, and were co-opted for PA in the early days of pro-touring concert sound. They were designed to deliver high fidelity with high efficiency. That's a far cry from the average DJ/livesound 'PA' speakers available today. While high quality PA does exist the price one must pay to get it is quite high. Most PA speakers in the less than $2k range are loud, but not necessarily good.
Thanks Tom and Fred for the advise.
Depends. Good PA speakers can make good home speakers, note, I said good ones.What's good? Give a listen, you decide; the point being that there most certainly are PA speakers that will do an outstanding job in the home.
bet some speakers in use by this forum's memeberes are basically "prettified PA" plus some PA speakers have attention to directivity at their crossover point and use modern waveguide HF.
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