Thread: KLH 6 vs AR 2AX Old Fashioned Shootout

Philips polycarbonate dome, yes some of the Avid 100s used it too. Difference would be in the crossovers even more than the cabs; in the HH Scotts of this late 60s-ish era say "Controlled Impedance Wide-Range Loudspeaker System". The woofer is run full-range, relying the natural dropoff of the driver, an interesting strategy. I used to think gradual slopes like 6dB were all I liked until my Hales showed me sharp slopes can...

Read Post #13 there again. These are nearfield measurements of bass response and not valid above 200 Hz. You're looking at the woofer cones interfering with themselves at this close distance above there. That is a study of low frequency response (only) of various acoustic suspension speakers....

I actually have - I heard a pair of 43-somethings when I last went down to visit Oberlin College (hoping to go there next year). I know that KLH and AR are both very east-coast, but they still have very different tone qualities to them.

Oberlin, excellent choice I went there for 4 years myself, say hello to Harkness co-op for me if you go. Lots of music fans and freaks there.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zilch http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=247274 Thanks, Zilch. I'm checking it out now. I'm such a novice so it's hard tp understand a lot of the graph data, but I understand some of it. That Advent seems like it has a huge hole in the upper-mids (Cons of a 2-way design?). That's one thing that my speakers DO NOT have. They have a slight bump in the low-end (the upper-low-end), but...

Quote: Originally Posted by RxDx I just hooked up a Carver HR-772 receiver to some AR2s. It's only a 125 watts per channel, but I managed to blow one of two tweeters in each speaker, and pull the voice coil spider off the frame of one woofer. AR recommended 20-40 watts. So, yeah, they are power-thirsty speakers, but it is possible to hurt 'em :-) sorry to hear that. but i didn't mean you can crank 'em up as much as you...

I have tried to drive them with my 14 watt heathkits and found that is was not enough. I also tried a Fisher 222 and 299 and thought they still needed more juice. How much power do you give them?

Guess I was thinking of the 2A's.

the thing I always liked about the 6's was their soundstage...it was like being at a concert....

Quote: Originally Posted by Susurus In the 3-way 1960's acoustic suspension war my Scott S-11D set beat my W-60's. The Warfs looked better of course, curved front and super furniture quality fit/finish and lush veneer. For fun I even hooked those up to the Hafler P-500 and the bass was astounding. HH Scotts... 11D's are on the left: Those Scotts have exactly the same mids and phillips tweeters that my friend has in his Avids....