Buster Mudd wrote:

I will certainly concede that achieving the peak SPL of the
aforementioned trumpet player while simultaneously maintaining a
modicum of fidelity is probably beyond the capability of most
$1000/speakers. But I will also strongly opine that sheer SPL is the
least difficult part of reproducing an acoustic instrument "naturally".

Ah, Do you remember the motto of Cerwin Vega?

"Loud is beautiful if it's clean."

We may all go deaf, but at least it wasn't distorted while
we were going deaf.

Didn't they go into the automobile sound business?

Russ