Wednesday, February 5, 2025

 




3 comments:

  1. Best bang for your buck speaker company on the planet. Been using them for 30 years.

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  2. In the mid 1980s, I was tasked to lead a team configuring a sound room for our EE department to use for environmental DSP experiments. We were using a Yamaha DSP-1 to simulate various live environments to test our adaptive filter algorithms. The result was a six speaker setup. We used a pair of KEF 104.2 speakers as the direct sources, a pair of Klipsch Heresy II speakers for the front corners, and a pair of Infinity Q5 speakers in the rear corners. We drove them all with Carver amps, I don’t remember the model. Comparing the speakers, I rated the KEF as highest fidelity followed by the Klipsch and then the Infinity’s. We used the room to simulate many environments including the inside of a M1 Abrams tank.

    The Klipsch are definitely good speakers, but I suspect that the Bluetooth audio profile used for sending the signal to the speakers is already a significant impairment to high fidelity. YMMV.

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    1. If the turntable above is the source, and if the speakers support the apt-X protocol during pairing, these will probably sound pretty good. Other sources might not provide a great codec and the sound might not be as good. YMMV.

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