![]() ![]() Many cabinets were sealed and so large that their only function was to absorb the back-waves thus allowing the driver to respond down to its natural resonance. ![]() These were often horn-loaded to increase the efficiency. How do you make a very efficient design? You make the driver have a light moving mass (basically cone and voice coil) that is large in diameter – 15-18” were popular in the “high-end” of the day. Two watts was typical fifteen watts was big and sixty watts was about the biggest (and very expensive). When talking about “better” in audio (and probably most other things), the real question is “better for what?” Sealed and vented speakers provide designers and listeners with different assortments of benefits and challenges.Ī little history: Up until the mid-1950s speakers had to be highly efficient because amplifiers (tube of course) were very low powered. ![]()
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