I like large amps with high wattage because they do loaf along and are not pushed to clip as they are not being driven hard.big klipsch,michi m8, hegel h30a,big mcintosh all work well for me. I also like electronic cossovers. Enjoy the music and the design. I also like ribbon planar speakers.
Sometimes Hard to Drive Speakers are a Gimmick
Hello friends!!
After about 10 years of looking at speaker impedance curves and sometimes doing an in depth analysis I've come to the strong inference that sometimes speakers are made hard to drive deliberately.
I wrote about it more fully here.
TL;DR : Don't be seduced by hard to drive speakers. They aren't more musical.
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@audition__audio - Gonna sit here and wait for you to provide anything amounting to evidence before I address that you are ignoring mine. Selectively counting retorts ain't it. Please, all, keep replying to this thread to keep it active and get as many eyeballs as possible. |
I agree with everything Ralph (atmasphere) said here. The one thing to keep in mind is the first word of my post: "Sometimes." I agree some speakers are just.. unfortunately poor crossover choices. Some speakers, by nature of the physics of their construction are never going to be an easy load. I’m also not going to whine about speakers that squeeze in a 3rd woofer in a small cabinet to get a little more bass out of a small footprint speaker. Balancing out sensitivity and size requires tough engineering decisions and not what I'm trying to point out here. My article, and frustration, is about a third and very rare situation, of which in my years of looking at speakers I’ve found only 3 possible candidates. |
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