[Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Performance

[Bob]

Yep..

New physics..I knew it.

Impulse response is certainly one factor of speakers and the
old ones do it a lot better than the mid cost new ones. Put
a square wave at 100 Hz into a Bose anything and guess what
comes out? Those ain't square waves. The JBLs of the world
and the early Kloss speakers understood square waves. The
amp gets into the act, and a lot of feedback and other
gadgetry tends to get in the way of damping and the impulse
response of the amp gets to play. Now the old tube amps had
problems with transformers and square waves, but the solid
state stuff is really quite good. But the tubes "sound"
better because the distortion is a desired factor in this
audio process. Shame.

Now consider the source. Just where do you get a source of
any quality? All music is clipped, mashed, processed and
bent to match whatever the engineers and occasional musician
think will sell on a boombox..Shame.

WBob

"Robert J. McKee" wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob <wolfbob@csnsys.com>
> 
> > Gee, I see some new physics coming in here...what is the
> > concept of "fast" with a woofer? How do you get or need or
> > how does an instrument make "fast" at 50Hz?
> >
> >
> Sorry, I know it is a relatively new concept for many but
> Bob it's been around for a long, long, long time.  Ever hear
> a big bass drum sound like it was hit with a rolled up sock
> instead of knocking you out of your chair?  Speed, Bob, Speed!
> Impact!!!
> 
> It is these "detail" thingies that separate the mass market
> junk
> from true high end reproduction.  The reason why speakers
> from yesteryear went the way of the VW beetle.  Progress
> has been made even in the mass market mid-fi world.  The
> overall trend has been away from a "rich" sound to more of
> a real sound.
> Bob McKee
> 
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