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High Efficiency Speaker Suggestions

jjohnson

jjohnson

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I recently picked up an EV Aristocrat single speaker and a 4 wpc Akai monoblock (from a RTR) to power it. I like the experience so much that I am picking up the 2nd monoblock tomorrow. I am now going to try to find a pair of high efficiency speakers for a stereo setup. It will likely be a long time, if ever before I am able to find a mate to the EV. Does anyone have any reasonably priced suggestions in the under $250 price range used or do I need to raise my budget for something better.

Thanks in advance.
 
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The best that I can suggest is the eWave made from what ever you find locally. Start reading the eWave thread to get an idea of what woofs and cabs to look for.
 
jjohnson said:
Does anyone have any reasonably priced suggestions in the under $250 price range used or do I need to raise my budget for something better.

Thanks in advance.
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I dunno, Aristocrats seem to be fairly common though they came with a wide variety of driver combinations.

If you go a little higher than $250 you can find Klipsch Heresys and Altec Boleros. I like Boleros alot.

If you're interested in the single driver thing these speakers from Tekton are fairly efficient, well made and very reasonably priced. Trouble is I never heard them.
http://www.tektondesign.com/index.htm
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll keep my eyes open for the suggested models and check ou the econo wave thread. I do have a question on one specific speaker that has shown up locally. It is a bit different than what has been suggested. Specifically it's a JBL LX-66. I know better than to get into value on this forum but I would like to know if it seems reasonble with my amps. The rated efficiency is 94db which would seem ok but it does state a nominal resistance of 4 ohms. I'm not sure if this would be a problem.
 
jjohnson said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll keep my eyes open for the suggested models and check ou the econo wave thread. I do have a question on one specific speaker that has shown up locally. It is a bit different than what has been suggested. Specifically it's a JBL LX-66. I know better than to get into value on this forum but I would like to know if it seems reasonble with my amps. The rated efficiency is 94db which would seem ok but it does state a nominal resistance of 4 ohms. I'm not sure if this would be a problem.
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If the TechnicsV10X is your Amp, 120WPC in classA will be plenty of power to drive these JBL. Although rated at 4Ω, the JBL present a fairly easy load.
 
jjohnson said:
I recently picked up an EV Aristocrat single speaker and a 4 wpc Akai monoblock (from a RTR) to power it. I like the experience so much that I am picking up the 2nd monoblock tomorrow. I am now going to try to find a pair of high efficiency speakers for a stereo setup. It will likely be a long time, if ever before I am able to find a mate to the EV. Does anyone have any reasonably priced suggestions in the under $250 price range used or do I need to raise my budget for something better.

Thanks in advance.
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I can't help you on speaker selection, but some of those older Akai amps had really fine output iron in them. I remember the good stuff being a baby blue color (I think).:scratch2:
 
JJohnson, might keep your eyes out for another EV Aristocrat. They do turn up as singles from time to time.

OT but...

Jay, are you still using those bass bins with the EV woofers you built with Paul C's plans a few years back? They should have been fairly high efficiency. Have you been happy with them? I think I saw those same woofers in a CL listing not to long ago and reminded me that I've wanted to do something similar someday.
 
Tekton, and Fritz have some offerings, with small efficient drivers. I'd also take a look at these. I run both of these off a t-amp, on a computer based bedroom system.

I personally prefer a larger sized speaker box with when using lower powered amps though. (If they are run in a medium sized room) I run my tube mono blocks with either Bottlehead strait8s, or Kinetic Audio Efficiency's.
 
I think that it may be the sound of the Aristocrat that's beguilling you. So my suggestion is look for a second, and another Akai tape recorder to pull the amp out of -- why argue with success?
 
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