I'm back from visiting "Franklins Speaker Emporium", known locally as "The wall of Sound". As always it was a fun trip and great to see my friend again.
As for the new speakers, well I'm having a tough time trying to figure out how to put into words how they sound. I think the problem is that word "sound", it's to limiting. As corny and over the top as it sounds you experiance these speakers more then listen to them or just hear them.
The speakers don't have a great midrange, or great high end. They suffer from flaws nearly everywhere. I had to get that out of the way because perspective is everything here. Come on guys were talking about $2.00 drivers here. He got them on clarence but even if the original price was 3 times that we're still only talking about 6 dollar drivers and a $20.00 tweeter.
Now that that's out of the way I have say these speakers are extremely fun and enjoyable to listen. In my opinion they jumped to life after he spent all of 5 minutes putting a few pieces of spare x-over parts together to limit the drivers range.
Think Maggie's but with absolutely no volume limatations. These things don't even break a sweat reaching well into the 90db area with no sub. You'll never play them loud enough to where they start to stress in my opinion. As for imaging, things are as they should be, not stellar but very nice. More importantly then that they simply fill a room with sound in an orderly very pleasant way. I wouldn't want them as my "critical listening", or "referrance" speaker, but would love to have them as my living room/entertainment speaker.
I'm now very interested in open baffle line array speakers. In spite of all that can be looked at as negatives to the design for critical 2-ch listening it just doesn't matter. This design has its place and should be looked into and taken very serious. Think fun, effortless, huge, and a wall of sound, that's what they offer.
