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RE: hi-rez acoustic suspension minimonitors?

The smallest speakers I know with fast, relatively deep bass were the Sequerra Met 7 Mk IIs. I'd guess they were about 8" wide. Their bass was very punchy and astonishingly deep, though not very smooth - there was something of "now you hear it... now you don't" thing going on. So the Sequerras broke the size-vs-bass relationship somewhat, but at a cost.

For a line of highly resolving *and* musical speakers with tight fast bottom end, the original Brauns (and U.S. licensed A/D/S versions) are hard to beat. But with them, bass response extends deeper only as the boxes get bigger. The tiny and delightful L300 is very resolving and musical from about 100 Hz on up. Their full-size L710 goes all the way down, as did the internally tri-amped LV-1020, but they're big.

I'm generally with you on the ported issue, but there are some pretty good ported designs, at least with bigger speakers. The ProAC Studio 100s are really good on *almost* everything. The tri-amped ported Genelec S-30, long out of production, had maybe the best bass I've ever heard. Fast deep bass with no bump ever, highly resolving *and* musical mids and highs. But they didn't go loud at all, were strictly near-fields, and they were pretty big, ugly, and expensive. But they made your ears smile. (I know an engineer with a collection of Grammys who keeps two pair working, so if one of the six amplifiers misbehaves he can swap in the spares with no downtime.)

I'm afraid it's true, at least with bass response: size matters. And doing the extremes well is always expensive. If you want excellent extended response in a smallish package, get a pair of Sennheiser HD800s, and put a really good amplifier on them.

WW
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