@ bigkidz +1
The theory doesn't always hold true.
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.
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Technically Atmasphere is correct, they use the aluminum panel as the voice coil, and they still use magnets. I highly doubt that apogee's suffer from thermal compression, the area is much larger to dissipate heat. I listened to a pair of Diva's that were driven by over 2,000 watts and they had effortless dynamics. |
@mrdecibel there are a few tube amps that can power the apogee scintilla and full range, most of them have 1ohm taps. There is a guy that used to post on the apogee forum that is powering his apogee full range with Tube Research Labs amps, four monoblocks with 1200 watts total, and he has owned quite a few of the usual suspect solid state amps that are supposed to be used with this type of speaker. He says the tube amps do the best job. |
@phusis I couldn't agree with you more about overly damped bass. |