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Speaker shootout observations and ramblings (wall of text)
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<blockquote data-quote="Rick" data-source="post: 561594" data-attributes="member: 17143"><p>I totally agree with what you said about the Tannoy Mercury mx1. I have a set I bought in beautiful condition and they never sounded right. They do not take well to powerful amps, but try them with something like a 15w Tripath and they come into a realm all of their own.</p><p></p><p>Again it comes down to pairing equipment. I have designed and built speakers for so many years and going the super clean perfect response route has never revealed anything with character. The truth of the matter from a design perspective is to determine what kind of distortion/driver material/crossover network and harmonics do your ears like best. Its a well known phenomenon that square wave anomalies sound sweet and sibilant to the human ear and it is here that the dark magic of good speaker design dwells. As frequency gets higher it becomes more and more directional towards the top of the scale, but then there are some tricks to play around with that as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rick, post: 561594, member: 17143"] I totally agree with what you said about the Tannoy Mercury mx1. I have a set I bought in beautiful condition and they never sounded right. They do not take well to powerful amps, but try them with something like a 15w Tripath and they come into a realm all of their own. Again it comes down to pairing equipment. I have designed and built speakers for so many years and going the super clean perfect response route has never revealed anything with character. The truth of the matter from a design perspective is to determine what kind of distortion/driver material/crossover network and harmonics do your ears like best. Its a well known phenomenon that square wave anomalies sound sweet and sibilant to the human ear and it is here that the dark magic of good speaker design dwells. As frequency gets higher it becomes more and more directional towards the top of the scale, but then there are some tricks to play around with that as well. [/QUOTE]
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