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Budget Speaker Package
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The small speaker package produced, by hand, at Dana Audio sound
pretty good!
The guy who makes them used to be a physics professor at the
University of Tenn in Knoxville. He formerly sold speakers under the
name EMS. They were also well thought of here in DC. He cares a lot
about phase coherence, if I remember right.
They have been favorably reviewed in $sensible $ound Magazine and
other places (I forgot where else).
The two "front" speakers cost about $200 a pair. They are really nice
on voice and classical. If you are into hiphop, then these might not
be for you though. Their bass would certainly need a sub for that.
Q: does anyone know whether the sub is any good? The speakers have
a couple of minor problems, IMO, though.
1: 1/2 inch tweeter is a bit wimpy, considering the 1 inch version
is a dollar or two more his cost.
2: Sealed cabinet designs are my favorite, but 63hz isn't low enough
for most decent music. If he wanted to go with this type of design,
he should have gone for a $250-$300 tower. I've heard some sealed
cabinet towers that while they only went down to 35-40hz, were very
nice to listen to. Too bad "small" is all the rage now.
I wonder how these sound vs Trotsky's speakers? Lol. Probably
amazingly close considering the components cost about the same
to make.(Greg's inability to source his parts cheap enough like
the big firms is his own problem)
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