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In Reply to: Re: If I get to pick the music, 80% confidence factor posted by CELT on June 22, 2003 at 17:56:18:
Sure, even when you are talking about good speakers, the diminishing returns set in at some point.And if you are talking about triumphs of ideology over experience and common sense, you can get speakers that throw a remarkably huge soundstage, and that can pressurinze the room as though there really was an organ right over __there__, but the upper midrange just sounds off, and that can set you back $75,000.
My point was that you __cannot__ do justice to a work that involves full orchestra, 32' organ pedals, 120 singers plus two soloists, with a bookshelf loudspeaker that costs under $1000.
Musical sound is organized logarithmically. Go down one octave--eight notes--and you double the wavelength being propagated. For every octave you go down, the speaker has to be twice as big, or you have to resort to tradeoffs like ports, with their associated issues of resonances and impedence dips. There is no free lunch.
The least expensive speakers I have found that can do justice to the Telarc Shaw German Requiem are the Shahinian Obelisks, now at $4,000/pr.
I'd love to hear other nominations!!!!!
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- THAT I can agree to in a heartbeat - John Marks 06/22/0318:40:46 06/22/03 (0)
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