On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:01:48 +0000 (UTC), "David"
wrote:

No. Highly efficient speakers are generally less accurate than "lowish"
efficiency speakers. They tend to become unlinear at high outputs.

Actually, the exact opposite is true. It's insensitive speakers that
have problems at high SPLs, for reasons which should be obvious.

I have often found that the easiest way to deal with bass is just not to do
it at all! Small, sealed (infinite baffle) enclosures made with very heavy
damped panels and a simple crossover using very high quality drive units
often sound fantastic (BBC monitor LS1 fans may now smile smugly) BUT they
need vast amounts of amplifier power to produce any response below 100Hz
(and no - a subwoofer is not the answer)

Oh yes, it is! And BTW, those speakers can't *handle* vast amounts of
power, so you are stuck with no bass.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering