bishop148
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| How much of High End Audio is Horn Speakers? The advantage IMO of horn loaded speakers is their efficiency. The disadvantage is coloration, they usually have a characteristic horn sound, like its coming from a tube, which it is. JBL have done a pretty good job of taming horn speakers, wit... | |
| Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood? JBL K2 9900 are what you want. 93 dB efficiency, +/- 1 db from 70 - 20kHz, less than 1% distortion at 96db across the audible sound spectrum and 500 watt power handling. | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? When you want to turn the volume up. | |
| Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies? Save your money, buy something like an Emotiva power amp. Why? The designer of Phase Linear amps Bob Carver did something controversial many years ago. He modified his inexpensive Phase Linear Amp to sound as good in blind A-B testing as amps cos... | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? I have JBL 1400 Array's with a horn loaded compression midrange and super tweeter. They certainly are not "bright", the sound overal is mellow. It depends how well a speaker type is implemented, some horn type compression drivers are definitey ... | |
| What song have you played the most? Supertramp has been overlooked till now. As so they should, great group. Crime of the Century, Even in the quietist moments and School are standouts. | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Hey, need some advice. I have a 7 speaker sound system in my Acura. sounds horrible. I'm thinking of installing 6.5" Focals in 4 doors. Anyone have any experience with theses speakers? I've heard Focal Utopia's and was impressed. | |
| How much does power amplifier really matter comparing to other hi-fi components? Spend most on speakers, speakers make the greatest difference IMO. Amps have ruler flat responses and almost immeasurably low distortion. If your power amp has volume controls, try as an experiment by-passing your pre-amp. Plugging in for example... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? IMHO the difference an amplifier makes in sound is subtle - to my ears. I have 3 power amps - a Emotiva XP2, an old Cambridge 200 watt and an even older Phase Linear 400 S2. Remarkably the old Phase sounds really good powering some Yamaha 1000's... |