On 5/25/2011 12:16 PM, cporro wrote:
mike, so what's not advisable? spending lot of time mixing on them?
Yes. The original Auratones (of which these are a modernized
version) were intended as REFERNCE speakers - to see what
gets lost when your mix is played through a typical home
system of the 70s. The Avantones serve the same purpose only
they're closer to a low end home system of the 00s.
If you mix on good speakers in a decent acoustic space
you'll get the best mix you can have for any speaker. If you
optimize your mix on crummy speakers, it probably won't
sound very good on any speakers other than the ones you
mixed it on.
the website says they are "full range" and
i don't know what they mean by that.
It means that the highs and lows aren't split to two
different speakers. A single speaker carries the full range
of whatever the system reproduces.
so i take it you are both in the drive crap with crap camp. ha.
No, drive a limited-range speaker with a decent amplifier,
but don't go overboard. Most of the audible difference
between power amplifiers is in tightness of the low bass and
clarity in the high treble regions. Since these small "full
range" speakers don't have any low bass or high treble, it
doesn't matter how good the amplifier performs in those
ranges. But it should have ample power and sufficiently low
distortion to drive them cleanly in the range that they cover.
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