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From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen)
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Subject: Re: Speaker recommendations
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 17:04:19 EST
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For small speakers (cost < $900), you can't beat the ITC 1.  It's a
small three-way "mini-monitor" that was designed to be very
natural-sounding, precise, and disperse well.  Basically, they were
designed to sound like large speakers.  The price you pay, performance
wise, is that being small, they can't handle low bass, so they don't
even try.  Everything below 50Hz is rolled off.  Placement is also
pretty critical.  Still, though.  Given this caveat, I'd put them up
against any speakers that cost less than $1200 and certainly against any
small speakers.  They sound very natural, image well, have lots of
definition, and don't sound like small speakers.  Great speakers for
small (i.e. dorm) rooms and for freaking out random passer-bys.  Last time
I checked, they cost around $700-800.

Size-wise, I could dig up dimensions but a real-life comparison
might be better.  The two speakers, sitting next to each other, are
about as large as the NEC monitor that I'm staring at now which is
about the size of a standard 12" TV.  There's no problem with power,
either, as long as it's clean.  Dick Davidson, head of Innovative
Techniques Corporation (ITC) has had over 500 watts/channel running
through them.  I've got 105 going into mine.

	Ray Chen
	princeton!tilt!chenr