2. speakers
  3. 1335542612

size of the driver

Coming from the "old school" and being a complete (or almost) novice here - in the old days back in 1970-75 we thought that the big (read - wide) driver will have better capability to produce more realistic sound, talking about lower end of the spectr at least. But nowdays I am seing 6 inch drivers stated as "bass". Just curious how well those perform or in another words what is the secret behind those if they really can perform at the same level as the 12 inch ones?

And another question which I guess is too simple and too basic around here that's why I couldn't find some point to point answer - when we speak about sensitivity - would that be a true statement to say that higher level (say 92-95 db) will allow to extract "fuller" sound spectr at a lower level of volume? My feeling is that with somewhat lower 89 db or less you need to increase the volume in order to have more visible lower end?

Thank you for your time
avs9

Showing 1 response by avs9

avs9 OP
72 posts
 
Thanks, folks. Once again I came to realize to helpful the audiogon can be. A lot of information to think over, "sounds" similar to my thoughts very often. Yes, I am not 15 any more, for the last 40 years. I remember back then in Russia the speakers from Estonia were popular, I can't recall the sound of course, been a long time, but I was really impressed. Then routes of life displaced all, was able to start getting "back in shape" a year ago and guess what - from all out there I bought Audes 027 made in Estonia :-)
Best Regards to all
More to discover