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In Reply to: Re: The JC1s have plenty of power posted by Christine Tham on August 3, 2006 at 15:31:24:
de gustibius non disputandum est and all that . . .I surely can't say that I've heard every B&W speaker made, or even close to it and I was rather partial to my DM3000s that I bought in the mid-1980s, which were way more dynamic than my DM7s that I bought in 1978. But I have a philosophical objection to an expensive speaker that requires extraordinary (and, in my book, that's over about 250 watts) amounts of power to render the impact and feel of live music.
Too often, they remind me of sound of the classic 'acoustic suspension' loudspeakers of my early years as an audionut in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I remember very well the great quote from the much maligned equipment reviewer Juilan Hirsch (of Stereo Review) whose comment upon reviewing the Phase Linear 700 (the biggest of the first generation monster amps) driving the Acoustic Research Corporation AR-LST: "I wonder if 700 watts is enough?" The test record was a recording of acoustic piano. The "revelation" of these first generation monster amps, was that they made the power-sucking acoustic suspension speakers of the era "come alive" in contrast to the suppressed dynamics they typically exhibited when driven by the more common 100 watt amps of the day.
Of course, the Klipschorn fanatics guffawed greatly, since their favorite, while grossly inaccurate in certain respects, did faithfully render the dynamics of the recording at more than "polite" levels and did so with amplifiers of modest power.
Back then, it was: choose your poison!
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- Re: The JC1s have plenty of power - Bruce from DC 15:46:49 08/03/06 (1)
- Re: The JC1s have plenty of power - Christine Tham 16:06:08 08/03/06 (0)
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