[Vintage-Audio] Re Speakers From Yesteryear

Sun Jul 14 10:20:01 2002

I feed the surround system with laser disk and dvd. The amplifier (Yamaha) runs
60 watts rms per speaker, except the rear special effect speakers which only get
20 watts rms. I use a Yamaha and a Pioneer LD player. Pioneer built the
technology, most others are a copy thereof. 	

The front speakers are two eight inch active with Titanium tweeter, front
ported. The rear are two way with six inch and Aluminum tweeter.	

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From: Phil Lefever <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Speakers From Yesteryear
Date: Sunday, July 14, 2002 2:17 AM

At 14:38 07/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>This
>channel handles primarily the voice output. You need several four inch 
>speakers
>set up to disperse the audio throughout the room at about forty degree angles.
>The four inch speaker is half way between a tweeter and a 'true' mid range
>speaker, and will handle the human voice nicely.

The center channel handles ALL the mono information in
the movie soundtrack, not just the voice! I was under
the same misconception that a small CC speaker would
do the job until recently I upgraded to a larger model.
The difference was amazing! I would consider the
minimum to be 2-6 1/2" drivers and a tweeter. Of course
it also helps to send the truly low frequencies to a
sub to remove the CC burden.

The other important issue is that the CC speaker needs
to be similar in response to the left and right front
speakers to make is seamless. Before I was using totally
mismatched speakers and it became apparent when I switched
to the new speaker.

I'll leave the use of 4" drivers to Bose who for some
reason still believes they have the better mousetrap ;)

73

Phil

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Phil Lefever	KB�NES				Twin Cities Repeater Club
[email protected]					Burnsville,MN

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