This is meant not as a right or wrong thing but more of an observation
as a recipe for success or consistancy.
It
is not that speaker designers deliberately design low sensitivity
loudspeakers but in order to seem natural or flat all drivers need to be padded to
the one driver that is lowest as mentioned above.
With cost effective
means to look at breakup behavior of cones and domes available today one
reason some designers end up with lower sensitivity is that speakers
end up that way when using drivers that are breakup free in their
passbands or range of operation.
In most loudspeakers especially high sensitivity ones some
of the apparent sensitivity is output from the random ringing of the
cones.
This definitely will smear the music fed to the speaker.
Low wattage single ended tube amps definitely have a sonic signature
and if that is preferred one has no choice.
But for most of us higher
power good sounding amplifiers are available for reasonable money.
Best
JohnnyR
