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The 1970s is before the era when manufacturers really focused on trying to get big sound out of little speakers. In the 1970s, if you wanted big sound, you got

The 1970s is before the era when manufacturers really focused on trying to get big sound out of little speakers. In the 1970s, if you wanted big sound, you got big speakers! Modern speakers are often (not always) designed to be small and inefficient, because you can always just pump more power into them... modern amplifiers are so efficient that you can just throw energy away like that. The old speakers I've heard are not remotely flat. But they do sound big, and fun, and maybe you can just EQ out the speakers with a modern receiver's room correction.

bigiain 5y ago
I have a pair of Boston Acoustics CR95s in my lounge room. I used Room EQ Wizard and a UMik-1 and a MiniDSP to measure/tune them. They came out so close to flat themselves that the only thing the MiniDSP map ended up doing was bringing in a little bit of subwoofer under about 45Hz to prop the very bottom end up. The sound beautiful, at least to my old and abused ears, for both music and movies. (I use them as stern + a su=ingle sub for music, and as part of a 5.1 system with a centre speaker and rears for movies). They aren't quite 70's old. But they were a long way from new when I got em off eBay a decade or more back. I also still have the first speakers and amps I ever bought, back in 1988. Boston Acoustics A60MkIIs and a NAD 1100/2200 opre/power amp pair. This speakers have has 3 or 4 new drivers (all due to party abuse) and the caps in the crossovers replaced every decade or so, and the amps have had all the electrolytics replaced a couple for times. They still provide great sound in my dining room. (And I've become a bit af a NAD/Boston Acoustics brand-tragic. I end up drunk eBaying both brands every now and then, I have a pair of A40 speakers on my desk here, The lounge room home theatre amp is a NAD 70W per channel amp. And I've got most of a setup of a pair of A40s, a NAD 3020, and an Apple Airport Express together as a birthday present for a friend in a few weeks...)
simonblack 5y ago
KEF Concertos. I literally cried when I blew them up for the last time, and I could no longer get replacement parts for them. I met a guy who had a pair about 10 years later. I offered him double what he had paid for them new. He wouldn't let them go, either.

bigiain 5y ago

I have a pair of Boston Acoustics CR95s in my lounge room. I used Room EQ Wizard and a UMik-1 and a MiniDSP to measure/tune them. They came out so close to flat themselves that the only thing the MiniDSP map ended up doing was bringing in a little bit of subwoofer under about 45Hz to prop the very bottom end up. The sound beautiful, at least to my old and abused ears, for both music and movies. (I use them as stern + a su=ingle sub for music, and as part of a 5.1 system with a centre speaker and rears for movies). They aren't quite 70's old. But they were a long way from new when I got em off eBay a decade or more back. I also still have the first speakers and amps I ever bought, back in 1988. Boston Acoustics A60MkIIs and a NAD 1100/2200 opre/power amp pair. This speakers have has 3 or 4 new drivers (all due to party abuse) and the caps in the crossovers replaced every decade or so, and the amps have had all the electrolytics replaced a couple for times. They still provide great sound in my dining room. (And I've become a bit af a NAD/Boston Acoustics brand-tragic. I end up drunk eBaying both brands every now and then, I have a pair of A40 speakers on my desk here, The lounge room home theatre amp is a NAD 70W per channel amp. And I've got most of a setup of a pair of A40s, a NAD 3020, and an Apple Airport Express together as a birthday present for a friend in a few weeks...)

simonblack 5y ago

KEF Concertos. I literally cried when I blew them up for the last time, and I could no longer get replacement parts for them. I met a guy who had a pair about 10 years later. I offered him double what he had paid for them new. He wouldn't let them go, either.