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Junior Varsity
I ask you for advice on some speakers.
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<blockquote data-quote="Paul OBrien" data-source="post: 217620" data-attributes="member: 7285"><p>Certainly you don't need to a PA line array in your house, but you may like the sound of a PA style cab with large high efficiency drivers powered by high quality home audio amplifiers. I have always felt that it takes big speakers to produce big sound and clearly I'm not the only one as there is a forum dedicated to just this.. the High Effiency Speaker Asylum. Many of the drivers used in a system like this are lifted directly from the Pro audio industry but in use they are rarely pushed anywhere near their maximum power ratings, in fact it is the amount of SPL that can be generated with only 5-10w that is the attraction, the sound has an effortless quality about it.</p><p>I stumbled into this by accident in the late 70's with my first DIY speaker build that was a classic 3-way monkey coffin design with a high efficiency 15" bass driver, the amplifier that powered these speakers only produced 65w/ch but most times it ran in the 1-10w range, and I was hooked. You can get an idea of what this is all about if you were to rent some PA speakers to demo, but while you may like some aspects of the sound produced it takes a different approach to powering and processing to make something you can listen to in a home environment. A PA speaker is designed to get really loud and not blow up, in the home environment that isn't a problem usually and more attention needs to be put into keeping background noise down and developing processing tailored to relatively low SPL listening.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul OBrien, post: 217620, member: 7285"] Certainly you don't need to a PA line array in your house, but you may like the sound of a PA style cab with large high efficiency drivers powered by high quality home audio amplifiers. I have always felt that it takes big speakers to produce big sound and clearly I'm not the only one as there is a forum dedicated to just this.. the High Effiency Speaker Asylum. Many of the drivers used in a system like this are lifted directly from the Pro audio industry but in use they are rarely pushed anywhere near their maximum power ratings, in fact it is the amount of SPL that can be generated with only 5-10w that is the attraction, the sound has an effortless quality about it. I stumbled into this by accident in the late 70's with my first DIY speaker build that was a classic 3-way monkey coffin design with a high efficiency 15" bass driver, the amplifier that powered these speakers only produced 65w/ch but most times it ran in the 1-10w range, and I was hooked. You can get an idea of what this is all about if you were to rent some PA speakers to demo, but while you may like some aspects of the sound produced it takes a different approach to powering and processing to make something you can listen to in a home environment. A PA speaker is designed to get really loud and not blow up, in the home environment that isn't a problem usually and more attention needs to be put into keeping background noise down and developing processing tailored to relatively low SPL listening. [/QUOTE]
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