"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
"John Atkinson" wrote in message
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I haven't been impressed with speakers using the Manger driver at
Shows,
mainly due to its chronic lack of sensitivity.

http://www.manger-msw.com/en/produkte/index.html

Manger gives the sensitivity of their driver as 91 dB/watt. That would be
average or slightly above-average sensitivity, no?

Today yes. But dismal.

From:

http://home.comcast.net/~wooferboy/Page_3.html


The JBL 2123J Project
The Klipschorn Midrange Horn

snip

Brett, you don't seem to get the fact that most folks don't want a 10 inch
midrange or horn speakers in thier rooms.

There are direct radiating speakers that can produce loud enough sound that
don't take up nearly as much space as a horn system might and are most
definitely more appealing to the eye for most people.

The specs given for the Manger seem to indicate that it would be in good
company with most other conventional speakers. A review with measurements
of one of the systems designed by the people who make the driver is
something think would useful to many people. There is the possibliltiy that
this driver and a properly designed system that is affordable for the
average audiophile might just have some sonic character that people might
enjoy.

Having a decent set of measurements would go along way IMO to help
understand whether there is any real value to this driver even if it is
somewhat inefficient, which should not disqualifiy it from review in SP,
given that many other systems have been reviewed with rather low spl
ratings.

Lots of esoteric type systems have graced the pages of SP and this one I
believe, deserves to be among them. Certainly it qualifies on esoteric
grounds, l;ets get a look at how it sounds in what appears to be a
reasonably well thought out system.