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Accurate, efficient, affordable, high-impedance speakers

There are, sadly, few drivers out there that meet all these criteria. Linked below is one of them -- a 6.5" midbass with 16 Ohm Znom, 89dB sensitivity, and a pretty smooth response curve. Can be paralleled in an MTM or TMM arrangement for 8 Ohm Znom, and still hit 89dB on-axis sensitivity after throwing away 6dB for full baffle step compensation. Combine with a tweeter of around 90dB sensitivity and you have a tube-friendly system that's easy to drive and will achieve quite decent SPL with little power.

If you crave sensitivities up in the 100s, then you're kinda limited to horn systems with their attendant colorations. (I did hear some big Klipsch models some years ago that truly did justice to loud brass with modest power: big band jazz sounded SCARY real! Only trouble was, vocals and everything else took on a kind of "brassy" character.)



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