I would think also, depending on what kind of music you listen too, most live music, especially rock for instance, is produced through pro drivers. People are so concerned with reproducing "live, realistic" music, yet most electric music is produced through non-hifi equipment. ???
I would add that HE pro driver can do a very good job with classical music to (when properly set up, of course). They do very well at getting the dynamics a scale of the orchestra.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
I agree. Most of the very best drivers are pro drivers. There are some good hifi drivers too, but the better they become, the more like pro drivers they are. At the high end of the scale, the distinction becomes blurred.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Some of the old Motorola (later CTS) units sounded pretty good to me for the money. I really liked them. But I haven't found any of the others I could live with.
For me and rock guitar, the old Marshall cabs with Greenbacks in them sound sooooo nice. I think part of the problem between the relationship between hi-fi speakers and pro sound is that in my experience, unless you're PA'ing a system, different speakers definitely sound better with certain instruments. I personally like the Greenbacks with guitars and Peavey Black Widows with bass guitar. I have no idea how they would sound trying to reproduce the full spectrum one might need for hifi though.
The big problem I had (20 years ago and now) was that most hi-fi's are only 80 something dB's (my small tannoy's are only 86dB's). My 'hi-fi' (home buit 20 y.a.) and still working, read speakers, is 100+dB's. I can then move volume, treble and bass up and down, and definitely I can hear HF's (105 dBs) very well like in the Disco. I have more of a 'Saturday Night Fever - dance party' at home than a THX 'Home-Theater'. (Who care's?)
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