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Originally Posted by FloridaBoy
There are many legacy Klipsch speakers that will amaze with low power amps and they are not expensive.
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I'm sure they are. Some people think Klipsch are somewhat colored. I don't have any first-hand experience with Klipsch, although there had been many good reviews on the brand over the years, for some good reasons.
The truth is, there is sort of a vacuum in the market for really well-designed, high sensitive and reasonably priced speakers. This in my view is a big limitation for the SET community. You essentially go from full drivers in brands like Omega, Decware and maybe Tekton (in the low-end), and then you have to "jump" into the DeVores and others from the high-end of the market spectrum.
I believe the ideal signal amplification is relatively opposed to that of sound representation: For example, high power brings distortion, OTBE, whereas the ideal speaker imaging and real-life representation would require less sensitivity and more commanding power. Somewhere in-between there must be an ideal sweet-spot, which people could call synergistic. The market is not quite competitive in satisfying this ideal niche at affordable speaker prices, IMHO. This is the reason why refurbished old designs like JBL and others are so popular among those without budget limitations. No current production brands are offering this concept at affordable (mass-produced) prices.
Apologies for the extent of this ranting ...