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From: shauns@vice.UUCP (Shaun Simpkins)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Speaker Info Request
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 13:10:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 13:10:48 1984
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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

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