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Post Subject: Overblown Bookshelf LF Line ArrayPosted by msaudio on: 5/13/2010

Your Typical Acoustical Suspension-type Loudspeaker enclosure witch has less then 90 db at 1 watt does not belong with a horn system that starts at 110db at 1 watt, even when you ad more then 1 driver, it is still way to far off to even consider using. It is like talking about the devil in church, they should be kept on the bookshelf because they suck. Why would anyone want a Acoustical Suspension-type speaker because they donot have the space for a better option. I am 47 years old and i was born listening to good speakers, from my first generation that had good audio taste and since the First AR speaker hit the market they have all sucked and were ment to be used for 1 thing a bookshelf. Then all these magazines started pushing small low output mailorder, cheap Japanease-later chinease junk speaker componetes with the rubber surrounds and thick cones and ceramic magnets, the sheep were eating them up because they donot no what music sounds like. It was all about making something small that sounds halfway desent that could be sold at a larger profit, made shipping easy and cheaper. It is so bad the recording studio's half to use them for monitoring to get a referance of shit for your typical boombox sound witch the people want for there RAP-CRAP sound. The hay day of sound was the 40,50,60, witch audio engineer mixed horns with acoustic suspension speakers? None that would be like witchcraft, these guy's that wrote the books on audio would all meet at the audio clubs, they all new eachother they had pride and they were trying to out do 1 another. They had shows just like they do now witch brought all the best to hear and look at, and make fun of the junk and that was AR. Talk to the old timer's that had horn systems they no a lot of the old story's. I am from california, my dad use to work for Altec pre anaheim then worked at a motionpicture sound house as chief engineer and went to all the clubs, so i herd all the story's and then some you would not believe. Preaching Horn Religion MSAUDIO

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