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In Reply to: Re: Regency Vs Empire. posted by duboiz on March 4, 2007 at 12:17:03:
The Regency was designed for corner placement and the Empire wasn't.
With the same woofers in each maybe the Regency would have a little bit more lower extension but the Empire may have a "nice" hump in the response that sounds good too. I moved to a smaller house and I had to get rid of a lot of speakers. I broke up the Regency cabinets but saved the components. I have a room where I can wall mount the drivers and the woofers would have 200 sq ft of volume behind them. In the meantime the Model 19 bass is the best I've had yet with no bass boost (I refuse to use subs) so I decided to concentrate on them. They are musical in a more dynamic way than the EV's, be that good or bad. The 19's are in a small room and I still don't know why people think they need huge rooms to sound good.
In my room they tonally balance beautifully at low levels with no drop in the bass. The near field listening is very enjoyable, the imaging on mono is dead center forward and 25 watts/channel from my Mac 225 tube amp is enough. The wall of sound is very big but not overwhelming at all with NO room treatment. There are a lot of Altec and other 2 way fans to be found but so far I'm not one of them. To me a 3 way is still the best regardless of xover distortion theories,and element insertion loss, etc. All the talk about "full range" and people end up with subs and tweeters so they end up with 3 ways in the long run.
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- Re: Regency Vs Empire. - DaveV 14:31:12 03/04/07 (3)
- Re: Regency Vs Empire. - Saturntube 14:51:18 03/04/07 (2)
- Re: Regency Vs Empire. - danali 17:07:32 03/05/07 (1)
- Re: Regency Vs Empire. - Saturntube 18:54:37 03/05/07 (0)
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