I would be surprised to learn that designer would, keeping all things equal, purposefully forgo efficiency to arrive at an 87 db or lower sensitivity. In other words, designing a speaker that has 90 db efficiency and then padding it down strikes me as bizarre.
This reminds me.....there are lots of anecdotes of 70s/80s era IBM mainframe customers seeking more processing speed, and IBM sending techs out to *remove* a board from the system. Still makes me laugh.
This reminds me.....there are lots of anecdotes of 70s/80s era IBM mainframe customers seeking more processing speed, and IBM sending techs out to *remove* a board from the system. Still makes me laugh.