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Old April 14th 18, 12:55 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
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Default Silly design of speaker.

Once upon a time on usenet Iain wrote:
perjantai 13. huhtikuuta 2018 3.40.34 UTC+3 ~misfit~ kirjoitti:

I have some Skytronic kevlar mid-woofers that I bought to try as
replacements for some woofers that had died in some random JBL
speakers I had. They'd be fine in DJ or PA gear (their target
market) but weren't up to the task I bought them for.
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Which is very good news, Or JBL would be out of business:-)


It was an inexpensive roll of the dice that didn't work out.

Skytronic seem to be aiming at the DJ, disco, karaoke sector.
PA (where JBL are the leaders) is quite a long way up-market
from this.


The Skytronic stuff that I've seen is very power hungry. Efficiency isn't
where they compete that's for sure. However given enough power they're not
too bad. Sadly it wasn't possible for me to match the Skytronic mid woofers
with the crossovers and very efficient JBL titanium 'dome' tweeters.
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Shaun.

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