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- From: newell@cco.caltech.edu (Stephen Scott Newell)
- Subject: Re: Good Quality Speakers?
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:34:29 GMT
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- evb@logrus.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen) writes:
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- >If bass is all that you are really interested in, try some Cerwin-Vegas. However,
- >they won't do much for accuracy... But at 98 dB efficiency or higher, you can get
- >a ton of noise from these things. Same goes for Klipschhorns (sp?). As for a
- >good speaker with lots of base, you could always buy a seperate subwoofer....
-
- Oh, come on. Comparing a classic like the K-horn to Cerwin Vega?
- You must be kidding. Don't even mention in the
- same breath together. I have heard both. One is maybe worth the
- money, one isn't. At least to people interested in bass.
-
- (Yeah, I admit the K-horn ain't the most uncolored speaker
- out there. But Paul Klipsch did claim it had about the lowest
- FM distortion (??). Long time ago, in JAES.)
-
- newell
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