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Jarek, my experience affirms that many “listening rooms” are overdamped, and you can always put a rug or rugs on the wooden flooring where you want it/them. And I have been able to get good sound in weird rooms. Basically, regarding rooms, “too big” is a far bigger problem than “too small”. I do get the attraction of headphones, and the Stax, in particular, and I do understand “limited capacity” speakers, and that people have to be mindful of their living arrangements. What I don’t understand is that no one except Romy has mentioned (and bitched about) the (necessarily) limited acoustic power. What are you listening to?>>

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Edgar, I will not be trying the Dunnoys, just, as a longtime devote’ of vintage drivers, trying to wrap my head around the phenomenon, to try to figure out if, and if so, how, anyone managed to get “serious” acoustic power for Big Music down to 50 Hz from a single, FR Tannoy Red. I do understand that the “passive” Scanspeak might lower the Tannoy’s Fs, but how does that basically parasitic load increase the acoustic power of the Tannoy? It literally makes no sense. And 90 dB peaks means 70 dB steady, if to have 20 dB headroom, right? I like all kinds of vintage drivers and speakers for this and that reasons; but, apart from a few of the old “Pro” systems, those old speakers were a ways from bringing across orchestral music, and less and less so, over time, for me. I had some success getting acceptable power from vintage drivers by using multi-driver “stacks” that limited the drivers to comfortable bandwidths (around 2 1/2 octaves...). Still, I was plagued with combing, lobing, and other “phase issues” that I was not willing to spend yet more time (and money…) figuring out.>>

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> Paul S>

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