Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site vice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcad!vice!shauns From: shauns@vice.UUCP (Shaun Simpkins) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Speaker Info Request Message-ID: <1294@vice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 13:10:48 EST Article-I.D.: vice.1294 Posted: Mon Feb 6 13:10:48 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:17:30 EST References: <118@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 31 If you like your listening levels loud, especially in the low bass regions, I would suggest that you stay away from the Acoustats. They are a) very inefficient b) lacking in power handling, and c) inadequate in the lowest octave, 20-40 Hz. A friend of mine at work has a pair, which he purchased after owning some Mangeplanars. The overall reproduction quality is excellent, once you get used to the incredibly tall sound image, and once you fiddle with their room positioning to eliminate weird room interactions. My friend spent a week adjusting and readjusting. Given the pains that he went through for results that are only nice, not outstanding (as I feel any $2000 speaker system should be capable of), there are other speakers on the market in that price range (and lower) that are much more pleasing and trouble-free, that will play - just as linearly - louder, lower, with less beaming, a more realistic sound stage, and more efficiently. (Editor's note: I am a dome radiator proponent. I move around while I listen and like an evenly dispersed sound field. I haven't yet heard a planar radiator that doesn't beam.) Besides, the average living room height in most new construction is 7' 6". I get this image of some unfortunate purchasing these speakers without measuring his room height and having to punch two slits in his ceiling for the last 4" of speaker... -- Shaun Simpkins uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekcad!vice!shauns CSnet: shauns@tek ARPAnet:shauns.tek@rand-relay