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I wanna pitch the Quadral Titan on behalf of the absolutely best price/performance ratio. Plus the ribbon tweeter makes for an excellent emission-characteristic (is that the english word?) so the ceiling is much less influental than with a regular round-emission tweeter. Sure, it's no Grande Utopia or the likes but we are talking about a really, really good speaker.
Generally I find Quadral to offer an incredible P/P ratio when compared to many other manufacturers. *glares at Dynaudio and B&W*
That Vapor Cirrus looks really, really nice. Too bad nobody has made a standmount that gets the extension of a floorstander. *)
I'm not asking for the full body, just the low extension.
But alas, nobody has been able to do that, at least none I know of
*)And I mean a "proper" standmount and not monsters like a 'La Sphere'
That Vapor Cirrus looks really, really nice. Too bad nobody has made a standmount that gets the extension of a floorstander. *)
I'm not asking for the full body, just the low extension.
But alas, nobody has been able to do that, at least none I know of
*)And I mean a "proper" standmount and not monsters like a 'La Sphere'
I would wager there isn't one particular speaker that's the best... In my mind though, if a speaker is to claim such a distinction, it would have to be a 2 way planar type with plasma tweeter and crossed over to a rotary woofer (down to 0hz).
Such a combination would warrant quite a force to be reckoned with as far as transient response and accurate coverage of the spectrum.
Once more, cross over would be key, as would positioning, room treatment, and room shape. Get all that right and I dare say you would have an excellent replicator of pre-recorded audio.
You could have full range response, yes but there's a lot more to speaker design than just something that does response from top to bottom. A crossover is a compromise, there's no getting around that. The ultimate transparent speaker by definition must be directly driven by the amplifier. Some of today's speakers make attempts by direct driving the tweeter or the midrange, but none can do it all without the other compromises of a typical full range driver. I also find the sub sonic response to be utterly pointless. 12" woofers in a well designed cabinet are more than capable of prodigious output below 20Hz. What song could you possibly need 10Hz to play?
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