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We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often

Sorry I know this is a bit of a rant, but come on people!!

Too many audiophiles find speakers which are hard to drive and... stick with them!

We need to reject hard-to-drive speakers as being Hi-Fi. Too many of us want our speakers to be as demanding as we are with a glass of wine. "Oh, this speaker sounds great with any amplifier, but this one needs amps that weigh more than my car, so these speakers MUST sound better..."

Speakers which may be discerning of amplifier current delivery are not necessarily any good at all at playing actual music. 

That is all.

erik_squires

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kenjit
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If we are to reject hard to drive speakers then we must reject the SNR1 immediately as they are horribly hard to drive with all the terrible components in the passive crossover. Get that dreadful thing out of there and go active Nigel I implore you!

kenjit
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My point was, there is no ONE speaker for all of us, let alone a perfect one. 

WRONG. Of course there is a perfect one. Why shouldn't there be? The perfect speaker is by definition one that satisfies all of us. We must stop creating imperfect speakers and start aiming for perfection. Also perfect speakers require perfect audiophiles. Some audiophiles dont WANT perfection. That is a completely different issue. I am one of the finest tuners in the industry. I have never met anybody who is as obsessed.

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