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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard d Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Good Quality Speakers?
- Message-ID: <Brx033.65I@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Jul23.111046.2005@merrimack.edu> <l6tlrrINN6ti@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <1992Jul24.083429.8356@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:35:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.083429.8356@cco.caltech.edu> newell@cco.caltech.edu (Stephen Scott Newell) writes:
- >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.)
- >
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- Dick Pierce's 2nd law of Acoustics: "You can say anything you want, who's
- to prove you wrong."
-
- Yeah, Paul Klipsch did CLAIM that, he really did!
-
- So?
-
- He also claimed that a bunch of direct radiator speakers had whopping high
- FM distortion, and was later unable to substantiate the claim when challenged.
-
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