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"Walt" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
You might find these test results interesting:

http://www.soundstageav.com/speakermeasurements.html


Whoa! Check out the plots for Druid speakers from Zu Cables:

http://www.soundstagemagazine.com/me...zucable_druid/

50 hz to 20 khz, plus or minus 25 db.

I guess this is what one would expect from a company that sells "magic
cables".

//Walt


Sadly this is what has been happening to the "high-end" these days. It's
insufficient for loudspeakers to be accurate, as that's boring. If you want
high-end credibility you have to make the sound jump out at you. That means
highly coloured horns, direct "full-range" drivers and other abominations
that were rightly consigned to the rubbish bin as far back as 1968. And all
this driven by horribly distorting SET amplifiers with flea-power output and
high output impedance so that even if you did actually have a loudspeaker
with a sensibly flat response, its impedance variations would ensure the
resulting response was anything but flat.

I do rather despair at the gullibility of high-end buyers who only buy with
their ears, with no understanding of, or interest in, measured
specifications and who are so easily impressed by a high level of
coloration.

S.


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