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Keith G wrote:
The holy grail, then, since no such beast has been made. Unless the
'meaningful extremes' of your hearing is greatly reduced from the norm.


Absolutely right and the same can be said of almost every other normal
'hifi' speaker - including the ubiquitous and much-loved LS3/5A, as in
this old pic which I'm sure I've posted here befo

http://www.moirac.adsl24.co.uk/L1000309.JPG

The LS3/5a never claimed to be a full range monitor. It was designed for
broadcast use where space was at a premium. However, add a sub and it does
give the full range without filling the room with woodwork.

Trust me, nice as they were/are, they had nothing on either of the
Lowther-powered speakers (Jerichos and Fidelios) and not even the bass
(IIRC) of the world-famous 'Pinkies' which can also be seen in the pic.

Are you actually surpised a large speaker gives better bass?
However, those Lowthers also have a pretty horrid top end - as does any
other MC speaker of that size when you try and take it above about 4 kHz.

(Talking of 'Pinkies' - where's he gone? Was that just a little
involuntary *finger squirt* or summat? :-)

Dunno.

Anyhoo, in keeping with the point of Jim's article, interestingly you
can also see a 3.5wpc valve amp in the picture as well as the 100wpc
(?) power half on the high-end Technics amp I mentioned elsewhere. The
valve amp remains; the Technics is history....

You're just confirming you like a coloured sound - but then we knew that.

(Btw, what happened to the 'Ay oop, Plowie - how're ya keeping? :-)'
bit, Plowie? Is it a *secret* or do you simply not care to say?? :-)

You're interested in the state of my health? Or something else?
I'm fine thank you.

But how about you? After flouncing off from here saying you had better
things to do? What's changed?

--
*Don't squat with your spurs on *

Dave Plowman London SW
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