Thread: Musical vs Theater Speaker - What's the difference?

Quote: Originally Posted by cdy2179 I've owned Klipsch RF82s, Paradigm Focus, Rocket 850s and listened to many others. The Klipsch THX and reference do things no other speaker I've heard has been able to do with movies. It's hard to explain but every sound just seems to have weight and can be heard with ease, and background music seems to go from background to being in a concert while the movie plays, My wife and I watched...

For anyone who thinks there is a difference between listening to music and a listening to movie soundtracks and thus needs different speakers, I'd suggest that if you have access to the Music Choice channels, tune to the Stage & screen channel and listen to a few soundtrack tunes, while not having the actual movie distracting you. other than action, suspense type movies that have a lot of special affects sounds, its a whole lot of...

Quote: Originally Posted by A9X-308 Grasshopper, you are making the same basic mistake that most people do with horns - that because they look roughly the same, they sound similar. This couldn't be further from the truth. Take the Klipsches mentioned as an example. They use a tractrix which as collapsing directivity as frequency rises so they can seem to have wonderful resolution, but can seem ear-piercing on some material. The ceramic...

Hey Penn, I did not sell my subs just yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by 4DHD other than action, suspense type movies that have a lot of special affects sounds, its a whole lot of Classical music, more often than not, throughout the entire movie. I agree. A lot of the music scored for movies or classics used in the soundtrack is wonderful and often very well recorded. I tried to make a similar point earlier, in that the large dynamic range and contrast of classical isn't much...

Yeah, but how am I supposed to guess what Klipsch speaker you consider run-of-the-mill-horns, or how was I supposed to know if that list included the Klipschorn, Palladium or Jubilee. You were comparing to 30K speakers, and I don't read minds... No biggie, forget it.

Quote: Originally Posted by penngray Those look similar to what MKTheater has in his room. I think the 3622's are exactly what he has....I think.

Quote: Originally Posted by DigsMovies For Music, I want a full range speaker with great low end response and NO subwoofer. For Home Theater, I consider a good sub a MUST, so low end extension is not quite as important in the other speakers. Take the sub out of the equation, and I agree with the previous comments. Thanks for the explanation. I guess it is just that simple - for music listening you want your two fronts to do all the work while...

Quote: Originally Posted by psgcdn What is it with some of you? Why it is so hard to believe that this forum would attract scientists and engineers with an interest in audio. Much better than all the vast majority of forums where cables are compared... Or are you in high school and believe that the forum is populated by other high school students pretending a have a career in science? Hey, are you trying to bust on my $500 Denon link cable?

Quote: Originally Posted by NIN74 Why? A big part of movie soundtrack is...voila, music. Yeah... yeah... yeah... we know that movies have music. What you are missing is that being immersed in 2ch audio has different requirements than a multi-channel setup. Movies also have images (go figure), which helps you be less critical of the sound. As stated, I do like my HT setup for multi-channel music (DVD concerts, music videos, 7ch stereo, etc.)....