jeffc wrote:
"Howard Ferstler" wrote in message
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wrote:
Two channel audio with classic large efficient speakers and moderately
powered amplifiers worked pretty good when John Kennedy was president
and still does. It's discontented people like Ferstler, Krueger, and a
couple of other cranks who are not happy if people are content with the
classic way of doing things and have to drop a log in our pool from
time to time. Buy whatever you find best by your own standards, but go
away and leave us regular people alone.
Ignorance is bliss.
How ironic. I recently got a free trial issue of Audiophile Voice. I see
it has an article in it by you. I won't be subscribing. (I like how you
highly recommended a pair of speakers since they can get close to high-end
sound for not much money, provided you buy a subwoofer and an equalizer to
go along with them..)
Small speakers like those (BG models, incidentally) cannot
be expected to deliver low bass. It would be silly to say
that such designs, no matter who built them, would be
adequate for full-bandwidth sound reproduction.
Consequently, a subwoofer is not a bad item to add to the
mix. In my review, I paired the speakers with a small,
low-priced Hsu sub.
As for equalization, I pointed out that with small
satellites located on stands away from room boundaries
(floor and adjacent walls) it is also often necessary to
flatten notches that result from suckout cancellations. An
equalizer can work to solve this problem if the user cannot
relocate the speakers to minimize the artifacts.
The review explains what these quarter-wavelength
cancellation artifacts are (some call them the "Allison
Effect") and how they exist with ANY small speakers located
away from room boundaries. Get that? You place any speakers,
no matter how good, in a typical stand-mounted configuration
and you will compromise the middle-bass performance. It has
nothing to do with the speakers and everything to do with
positioning. If repositioning will not be possible,
equalization is the second resort.
Overall, the speakers were quite good, particularly the
upper midrange and treble performance. They were also
blessed with very well finished cabinets.
Howard Ferstler