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Old January 5th 04, 07:30 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Stewart Pinkerton
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:48:06 -0000, "Roy" wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:01:48 +0000 (UTC), "David"
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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.


Erm, remind me!!


They need huge amounts of power, and suffer from thermal compression.
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