Foreign speakers have been evaluated and included with an eye to how they influenced the direction of the U.S. This is an article that deals with the 10 most influential speakers to have appeared on the scene in the last half-century in the American hi-fi market. One other thing up front: This is an American-centric article. are welcome.This will not be a purely factual article but instead based on my intimate involvement in the speaker market for 50+ years. I let you all discuss the rest.Īs always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. Progress in speaker design is real and I am spoiled by that. Subjectively it is horrid in my quick l listening tests. The Advent is not as bad as I thought it would measure. Lack of bass is a major problem as it accentuates the highs so much.Īs a quick experiment, I pointed the speaker straight out and this helped some but by then my mind was so corrupted that I stopped and started to type up this review. Thinking older music may do better, I played a few Nina Simone tracks.
The sound would be Ok and then one part of the vocal would hit a resonant peak (or something like it) and the sound would be so sharp as to attempt to go through you! I had to stop after a couple of tracks. I always start my listening tests with female vocals and these were unlistenable with the Advent pointed at me. The New Advent Loudspeaker Listening Tests But when asked to moved, it can't do so with the precision of current drivers. The large woofer doesn't have to move much at lower amplitudes so does well. This is to be expected of the drivers of the era. I picked the middle position (red below) in the switch that is marked as "decrease" for high frequencies based on my setup measurements (and later confirmed by Dennis): I think I was a bit to the right of the tweeter. Reference axis was the tweeter center or as best I could determine through the grill. I performed over 1000 measurement which resulted in error rate of about 1%.
In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room.
Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than an anechoic chamber. It also measures the speaker at close distance ("near-field") which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS). Interesting that it didn't have this negative stigma then.įascinating that its max power rating was just 15 watts! I fed it a lot more than that. It is horrible material and seemingly falls apart by just looking at it. As a woodworker, I detest particle board.
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