"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:49:28 +0100, "David Looser"
wrote:


At one time there was a fad for mounting speakers as far into room corners
as possible. My granddad, who was something of a "HiFi" enthusiast in the
1950s built a speaker cabinet which used the walls and floor as part of
the
cabinet. I seem to remember that a barrow-load of sand was part of it as
well.

Yup. And it probably got very loud with only a few watts input. If
we were prepared to let our speakers take up rather more space,
speaker design (and amp. power) could be very different :-)


Still is for a lot of people who prefer low power amp+efficient speakers to
*powerhouse* arcwelder+ironing board setups....