The nice thing is that vintage speakers can be reconed. If I knew that now I wouldn't have disposed of my floar standing jbl's. Simply speakers is one of the best places I've heard about and found vids on youtube of. The guy doing these repairs is very descriptive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 3:28 AM Subject: [blindav] Re: bookshelf speakers
The problem with bookshelf speakers these days is that they're not built like they used to be. In the heyday of two-channel stereo in the 1970's and 1980's , you could buy a great-sounding pair of bookshelf speakers like the original large Advents or AR5A's with 10" or 12" woofers that could really pump out the bass. But today, most bookshelf speakers are designed to work with separate subwoofers and so usually have woofers no larger than 6.5", which means that decent bass response is seriously compromised. You can't even find bookshelf speakers with 8" woofers anymore. So if you have a small listening room that cannot accomodate a floor-standing subwoofer,or live in an apartment where using a floor-standing subwoofer would disturb the downstairs neigbors, you're pretty much out of luck. Most bookshelf speakers I have seen only go down to about 45 Hz. My large Advents could go all the way down to about 25 Hz. My current bookshelf speakers, a pair of JBL LXE-990's 3-way speakers that I bought about 20 years ago, are actually tower speakers with 10" woofers, but because their cabinets are only 10" deep, they fit nicely on my bookshelves. Nobody makes speakers like these anymore.Gerald----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 11:11 PM Subject: [blindav] Re: bookshelf speakersBud, certainly not off topic, actually right on topic. I have always foundmost powered speakers with few exceptions to be a bit of a compromise but lets see what others say. Frank Subject: bookshelf speakers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Hi gang, I'm new here and don't know what is off topic but have a question about speakers. I am moving from a good size house into a converted garage apartment so am having to get rid of a lot of things including my floor speakers. I'm thinking of getting some "bookshelf speakers'" and amwondering what some good ones would be. I was thinking of unamplified ones, although my tuner-amp is about 20 years old and wonder if it's output would be as good as that of amplified speakers I would appreciate any input aboutsome quality bookshelf speakers. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California ***You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Blind Audio/Video email list.To post an email to the list send an email to: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't forget to visit everyone's favorite podcast www.avrant.com ******You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Blind Audio/Video email list.To post an email to the list send an email to: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't forget to visit everyone's favorite podcast www.avrant.com ***
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