Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tilt.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!tilt!chenr From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Speaker recommendations Message-ID: <215@tilt.FUN> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 17:04:19 EST Article-I.D.: tilt.215 Posted: Sun Dec 9 17:04:19 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:19:35 EST References: <182@harvard.ARPA> <553@voder.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept Lines: 23 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