[blindav] Speaker Technology in general
- From: Michael Ryan <vo1ryn@xxxxxx>
- To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:58:29 -0330
Hey all:
I was particular fond of a pair of Paradigm, not really book shelfs because
they were 2 feet tall, can't recall the model number from the mid 80's to early
90s.
They were about 600CAN a pair even then but they sounded awesome and there was
no sub required. I don't know how many AV enthusiasts used 12 inch subs,
probably not many.
Now, it seems if you want a modern speaker to sound like a mid 80's pounder,
you have to pay at least the price of Ascends Acoustics and other very high end
brands. A little ridiculous to me but I digress. LOL
I purchased my PSB T-5s back in 2011 and when I demoed them in the store, they
were Awesome and I figured there would be no sub required, which is why I payed
1100CAN for the pair.
Got them home and they were a disappointment and due to the fact I blew most of
my speaker budget on them, I had to buy a 2ND hand Polk Audio sub, surrounds
and a centre from my Brother in law.
Over the next 3 years, I got rid of the Polk surrounds and centre for a set of
Boston Acoustics and Paradigm centre, finally settling on a Fluance set. The
Polk sub, PSW-10, went out the door last October to be replaced with a Klipsch
SW-110, which rocks.
At the end though, I could have gotten a complete Klipsch package with SW-450,
the pre to my sub and all the speakers would have tamber matched and would have
been totally happy from the start. LOL
Others blamed my receiver but I think I didn't do to bad with the Denon
AVR-1912, which certainly sounds better than my cousin's Onkyo 414 and my
Brother in Law's former TXSR506 and current Yamaha HTR 5.1 model from about 5
years ago.
Michael R
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