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In the Thread: High End 2012 in Germany

Post Subject: Original usePosted by guy sergeant on: 5/9/2012

I did wonder about what recordings would have been used through these speakers back in the late 20's. The electronic recording of music only began in around 1926, prior to that the recordings were entirely acoustic. (although some of those acoustic recordings are very good) Cinema sound would have been in its infancy and a bandwidth of 90 Hz to 7 KHz might have been perceived to be enough, for a while anyhow. I doubt that anyone would have been using the speakers in a domestic setting.

In Munich they did play some rather nice older recordings from the 50's at least.

EDIT. Not everyone liked the WE speakers. I spoke with several people including a couple of HiFi reviewers who thought they were terrible. But alot did like them and it is really the obligation of other manufacturers to come up with something that is demonstrably better.

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