 正如我们所看到的这 Buy Cheap Speakers—Have Fun! 购买廉价的发言，也很有意思！
By Larry Archibald • October, 1989 由拉里•阿奇博尔德10月， 1989年 "Be like my friend Frank. He imagines that he's purchased certain products—right now he's imagining that he bought a pair of hard-to-get English speakers which he has read a review of but hasn't heard. This is ideal, since the speakers can sound better and better as Frank imagines more and more. When he tires of these speakers and gets excited about something else, he doesn't have to trade them in. He only needs to start imagining the next product." “像我的朋友弗兰克。他想象的，他购买了某些产品，现在他的想象，他买了一双很难获得英语，他宣读了一份检讨，但没有听说过。这是理想的，因为发言者可以更好地健全和更好地为弗兰克想象的更多。轮胎当他的这些发言和兴奋另一件事，他没有对贸易他们进来，他只需要开始想象未来的产品。 “ That was Sam Tellig's friend Frank, back in March of this year. 这是三Tellig的朋友弗兰克，早在今年3月。 No one could have said it better, but I have a followup. 没有人能说更好，但我有一个追踪。 Of course, I don't guess many of you really took Sam's advice—otherwise, why would you continue to read Stereophile and all the other audio magazines? 当然，我并不想许多你真的了萨姆的意见，否则，为什么你会继续阅读Stereophile和所有其他音频杂志？ Sam's advice just puts things into perspective. 山姆的建议只是到了事情的观点。 After all, is your current equipment really that bad? 毕竟，目前的设备真的那么糟糕吗？ Isn't it just that you've got an itch to get a little closer to the real thing, to go out and spend some money, to convince yourself of the tremendous savvy you possess when it comes to the purchase of hi-fi equipment? 是不是只是你渴望得到更接近真实的事情，走出去花些钱，来说服自己的巨大精明的你拥有时，购买音响器材？ From experience, you just know there's a good chance your system won't be better, just different—it might even get worse! 从经验看，你只知道有一个很好的机会你的系统不会更好，只是不同的，它甚至可能变得更糟！
Recent events have been concatenating in the direction of an idea that respects Sam's cheapness, but at the same time deals with the need to buy, the need to experience differences, the need to learn. 最近发生的事件已concatenating方向的一个想法，尊重山姆便宜，但在同一时间处理需要购买，需要经验的差异，需要学习。 Here's the idea: Forget about big, expensive speakers—buy cheap ones. 这里的想法：忘记大的，昂贵的发言者，购买便宜的。 Often. 经常。
My first inkling in this direction came as I attempted to delve into yet another major speaker left over from one of our real reviewers. 我的第一个暗示在这个方向来，我试图深入的又一重大遗留下来的一位从我们真正的审评。 (You may remember that I reviewed the Altec Bias 550 in Vol.12 No.4 only because J. Gordon Holt was in the process of changing houses, and the Mirage M-1 that I wrote about in Vol.12 No.6 had been originally scheduled for TJN until it became clear that his residence was also to change—from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.) Just recently I was left with a big, heavy, hard-to-set-up and fussy speaker, diverted from Las Vegas to Santa Fe.
I dutifully set up these speakers (I won't tell you which ones—that comes in November), and, after much moving of bulk and switching of amplifiers and arranging of cables and struggling for a bit of music...well, I just got fed up and set up the Thiel CS1.2 s that had just arrived from the aforementioned Sam. (You'll remember from the June issue that ST was not their biggest fan, being a bit put off by a lack of satisfying bass. We had him ship them out here to make sure it wasn't a sample-to-sample variation that caused the different 1.2 assessments. It wasn't—more later.) （您还记得6月的问题， ST段并不是他们最大的电风扇，正在有点推迟因缺乏令人满意的低音。我们这些他船舶在这里，以确保它不是一个样品的抽样变异造成不同的1.2评估。 wasn't它更后。 ）
Dick ("The Terminator") Olsher was over at my house to augment my impressions of the biggies, and he kept digging up nice things to say. 切尼（ “终结者” ） Olsher超过在我家里，以增加我的印象的biggies ，他不断挖掘好东西要说。 (Even Terminators are nice to little children and big speakers.) After all this struggle I just set up the Thiels in the most elementary fashion, and, lo and behold, there it was: music! （即使终端是不错的孩子和大喇叭。 ）毕竟这场斗争中我只是成立了Thiels中最基本的方式，以及罗湖和外表，还有它是：音乐！ Sure, the littlest Thiels can't put out low bass, and, yes, they're far from perfect. 当然，最小Thiels不能把低了重低音，和，是的，他们远非完美。 But there it was, music—something no amount of prying and moving could elicit from the big, expensive products I was trying to review. 但是，这是，音乐的东西再多的刺探和移动可能引起的大，昂贵的产品，我试图审查。 DO was dumbstruck by the difference. 做的是dumbstruck的差异。 "Gee, there's space on this record...where did it come from?" “哎呀，有空间，这个记录...如果没有来自哪里？ ” I, of course, being familiar with the record, knew the space was there all along, just disguised by how much was being attempted by the review speakers. 我当然熟悉记录，知道空间是所有沿线有，只是变相多少正在试图通过审查发言。
They just did too much, in the process obscuring the essence of music. 他们只是没有太多的过程中，掩盖本质的音乐。 As JA points out most mildmanneredly in the introduction to his report on small speakers in this issue, the more you try to get from speakers the harder it is to get it. 正如茉莉指出，最mildmanneredly在介绍他的报告中关于小发言者在这个问题上，更您尝试从发言者就越难就是要它。 To some extent this is due to limitations of source material and real-life rooms. 在一定程度上这是由于限制的源材料和现实生活中的客房。 True reproduction of low bass will overload most rooms, and let you know of far too much subway activity at the recording site, not to mention plain old rumble. 真实再现低的低音将超载最房间，并让你知道的太多地铁活动网站的记录，更不用提平原岁的隆隆声。 Nevertheless, the worst problem is that most big speakers fail at what they attempt. 然而，最严重的问题是，大多数大型发言失败在什么企图。 Or, just as often, they succeed at low bass but sacrifice the midrange. 或者，就像常常，他们成功地在低的低音，但牺牲的中端。 Violins are no longer violin-size, basses fill the entire space between the speaker or are simply too chesty. 小提琴不再是小提琴大小，贝司填满整个空间之间的扬声器或仅仅是太chesty 。
The late 1960s and early '70s were big on the slogan "Small is beautiful"—if you've seen pictures of me, you can guess it's not my favorite! 20世纪60年代末和七十年代初期就被大的口号是“小就是美” ，如果你看过我的照片，你能猜到这不是我的最爱！ In speakers, though, I frequently have to go along: "Cheap (and usually small) is beautiful." 在发言者，但我经常有附和： “廉价（通常小）是美丽的。 ” Of course, there's a big proviso: you have to choose from among the elite. 当然，还有一个大条件：你有选择的精英。 I wouldn't say that Stereophile has identified all the good small speakers out there, but choosing from the following four—all in the same approximate price category and all of which got rave reviews in our pages—you can't go wrong: the Spica Angelus , Magnepan MG2.5/R, Thiel CS1.2 , Vandersteen 2Ci .
Readers could do much worse than set up the best front end and electronics they can afford and just drop into this welcoming nest whatever small, cheap speaker is all the rage. 读者可以做很多不如建立最好的前端和电子产品，他们能够负担得起和公正下降到这个欢迎巢无论大小，廉价的一位发言者是所有的愤怒。 The most you'll pay for any of the above is $1550. 最您所愿意支付的上述任何为1550 。 For many of you that won't seem so cheap, but I was knocked over by the results of our Readership Survey (Vol.11 No.10). 对于许多你，不会这么便宜的，但我撞倒的结果我们的读者调查（第11卷第10号） 。 Most of you readers seem to own relatively inexpensive electronics but quite expensive speakers, many of them costing as much as $3500–$4000/pair. 大多数你的读者似乎自己相对便宜的电子产品，但相当昂贵的发言者，其中许多费用高达3500 -$ 4 000/pair。
My recommendation is the opposite. 我的建议是相反的。 It's not that expensive speakers don't deliver when you buy them (though most will be seriously compromised by inferior electronics), but they are quickly bettered in their respective price ranges—and you've invested too much in them to just sell them off and take a $1200–$5000 beating in the process. 这并不是说昂贵的发言者不提供当您购买（尽管大多数将受到严重损害的伪劣电子产品） ，但他们正在迅速提高了各自的价格范围和您投资太多在他们刚刚出售它们赶走并采取$ 1200 -$ 5 000殴打的过程中。
And that's just the half of it. 这就是一半。 It's my observation that the bigger and more expensive your speaker, the more you have to tailor the rest of your system to just that speaker's idiosyncrasies. 这是我的看法，即更大，更昂贵您的发言者，更要适应其余的系统，只是发言者的特质。 Right now I'm listening to the ultimate paradigm in that respect, the Infinity IRS Beta s. Though they can do wonderful things (we've had our doubts upon occasion, but no more), you have to use just the right equipment. 虽然他们可以做美好的事情（我们有我们的疑虑之际呼吁，但没有更多的） ，您必须使用恰当的设备。 You don't want the Levinson 20.5 s on the midrange-tweeter panels, though they're a most optimal amplifier in every other situation I've used them—only tubed gear will do. (I'm using the splendid VTL 500s to excellent effect.) And forget the Carver Seven T-mod on the bass towers (footnote 1), in spite of this mono amp's 575Wpc rating into 8 ohms (900Wpc into 4 ohms). （我使用了灿烂的VTL 500出色的效果。 ）而忘记了1.3666七的T模型的低音塔（注1 ） ，尽管这一单一放大器的575Wpc等级分为8欧姆（ 900Wpc到4欧姆） 。 Only the ultimate authority of a Krell KSA-200, or its ilk, will do. 只有最终权威的Krell库特萨蒙同仁公司- 200 ，或其之流，将这样做。 I don't mean simply that the Krell's better; I mean you don't even want to listen to the Betas with the Carvers (though first indications are that it's an excellent amplifier with more modest loudspeakers). 我的意思并不是简单地说， Krell的更好;我的意思是你甚至不想听的试用版的雕刻（但第一次有迹象表明这是一个极好的放大器更为温和扩音器） 。
Those are only the most basic problems. 这些只是最基本的问题。 Let's talk about preamplifier choice, CD player choice, cartridge choice, cable choice—all verrry touchy. 让我们谈论放大器的选择， CD播放机的选择，墨盒的选择，电缆选择所有verrry敏感。 AARRGGH! AARRGGH ！ When you're finished, it's all too easy to have a system in which Betas sound magnificent but nothing else will be even tolerable. 当您完成，这一切太容易了有制度，健全的宏伟测试，但没有别的将会更加不能容忍的。 You've learned about equipment, but what have you learned about music? 您已经了解设备，但你有什么了解音乐吗？
Let's try something else. 让我们尝试别的东西。 Say you've invested your hard-earned dollars in the few amplifiers that get universally rave reviews and recommendations, a great phono system, and a good, inoffensive, but modest CD player. 您说，您的投资来之不易美元的为数不多的放大器，获得普遍好评和建议，伟大的唱机系统，以及一个良好的，无害，但微薄的CD播放器。 Then, about two years ago, let's say you bought a pair of Spica Angeli to round everything out. 然后，大约两年前，假设您买了一双天使穗轮都将进行。 They set you back all of $950—less than almost any cartridge in AB's recent cartridge roundup. 他们设置你回到所有的950美元，低于几乎所有的墨盒在公司最近的墨盒围捕。 Wow, you said, what imaging, what music! 哇，你说，什么影像，什么音乐！ No esoteric conflicts here, just sit back and relax. 没有深奥的冲突在这里，只要高枕无忧。
Of course, no speaker's forever (even an inexpensive one), and six months later—having learned volumes about imaging specificity on half your record collection (you haven't been able to listen yet to the second half of your 5000-record collection), you decide that the Angeli round off just a little too much, so you grab your latest Stereophile and read about how great the Magnepan 2.5s are, according to JA and LA. 当然，没有一位发言者的永远（甚至是廉价的一） ， 6个月后，学到了大量的特异性显像半的记录收集（您一直无法收听尚未下半年的5000记录收集） ，您可以决定的天使扫尾一点点太多，所以你拿起你的最新Stereophile和阅读如何伟大的Magnepan 2.5s是，根据茉莉和LA 。 Buy 'em! 买了他们！
Maybe you lose $350 on your Spicas, and the new Maggies cost $1550, but that's still cheap compared to the speakers owned by most Stereophile readers—and really cheap compared to high-end speaker cables. 也许你失去350美元的Spicas ，新Maggies成本一千五百五美元，但这仍然是比较便宜的发言者所拥有的最Stereophile读者和真正比较便宜的高端扬声器电缆。 Why, it's half as much as a 1-meter pair of highly touted interconnects! 为什么，它的一半，作为一个1米对高度吹捧互连！ (The $350 you lost on the Spicas, that is.) Assuming that you pay attention to the caveats emphasized by JA and JGH regarding room choice and speaker placement, you'll now be happily ensconced at home enjoying the fabulous, big sound of 2.5s, with the ultra-extended, yet easy on the ears, high end of the Magnepan ribbon tweeter. （在350美元你就失去了Spicas ，这是。 ）假设您注意告诫强调茉莉JGH关于房间的选择和发言者的位置，你现在可以愉快地埋伏在家里享受精彩，大的声音2.5硫，与超延长，但很容易的耳朵，高端Magnepan丝带高音喇叭。 You can't believe such a sound is available for so little—why, your favorite dealer can't get this kind of sound even on his $40,000 worth of gear, not most of the time. 你不能相信这样一个健全的可如此之少，因此，您最喜爱的经销商不能得到这样的声音甚至对他的四点零万美元价值齿轮，而不是大部分时间。 And, judging from the Stereophile reports, this is far, far better sound than any reporter hears at a CES or Hi-Fi Show! 而且，但从Stereophile报告，这是远更好的声音比任何记者听到一个消费电子展或Hi - Fi的显示！
Six months later (I think you're getting the idea), the big sound of the 2.5s is wearing a little homogeneous—but look, there's a Thiel CS1.2 with a rave review. 6个月后（我想您收到的想法） ，大的声音2.5s穿着有点均匀，但看看，有一个泰尔CS1.2一个狂欢的审查。 Sounds musical. 声音的音乐。 Small. 小的。 Forgiving. 宽恕。 All the right words, so you hasten to a Thiel dealer for an audition, and find a precision that's lacking in your 2.5s. 所有正确的话，你赶紧到泰尔经销商试镜，并找到一个精确的缺乏在您的2.5s 。 Not easy to trade in a speaker that's worth more than what you're trying to buy, so you sell the Maggies to a friend (who may be following your footsteps all the way) for $1100, and that happens to be just what the Thiels cost. 不容易的贸易时，它的价值超过你想购买，所以你卖Maggies给一个朋友（谁可能是你的脚步以下的所有道路）为1100 ，并且恰好是正是Thiels成本。 Meanwhile, except for carting the speakers home, unpacking them, and packing 'em up again, you're having a ball. 与此同时，除carting发言者家庭，拆包，并包装他们了，你有一个球。 You got to hear your second 2500 records on the Maggies and can't imagine what the first 2500 will sound like on the Thiels. 你听到你的第二个2500记录Maggies ，不能想象的2500年将首次听起来像是对Thiels 。
Six months later, the Vandersteen 2Ci's have found their way into your home, and you're recognizing yet another set of virtues, including real bass (for only $1395 with stands)—and who knows what's next? 六个月后， Vandersteen 2Ci的发现他们的方式到你家，你认识的又一一套美德，包括真正的低音（只一三九五美元与看台） ，谁知道接下来会发生什么？ This is not a literal recipe, of course. 这不是一个字面上的食谱，当然。 You do have to choose your speakers carefully—make sure they're consensus All-Americans, but you can use anyone's ears you trust, not just ours. 你要选择您的发言仔细，确保他们的共识是所有美国人，但您可以使用任何人的耳朵你的信任，不只是我们。 Keep them one year, two years at a time—whatever's comfortable. 让他们一年，两年的时间，无论的舒适。 Pursue the same idea in backwards order. 追求同样的想法在向后秩序。 Don't trade in each speaker at all, just put them in a corner. 不要贸易的每一位发言者在所有，只要把他们一个角落。 Don't get past the first step, that's okay too. 不要让过去的第一步，这是不错了。
I'm advocating component-of-the-month (every six months, actually), but only with speakers. 我主张组成型的一个月（每6个月，实际） ，但只有在发言。 Keep everything else pretty much the same—a new cartridge every once in a while, an experimental (but cheap) cable. 保留一切大致相同，一个新的墨盒每一次一段时间，一个实验（但廉价）电缆。 Buy cheap speakers. 购买廉价的发言。 If you choose carefully, they're unfussy, much less fussy than the Class A (or, for that matter, Class B) recommended speakers. 如果您谨慎选择，他们unfussy ，更挑剔比A级（或就此而言， B类）建议发言。 Just drop them in, and learn all over again the lovely things on your records. 他们只是在下跌，并了解各地再次可爱的东西在您的记录。 Remember, they may be inexpensive, but there's a good chance you're hearing more from your records than your friend who spent $6000 on speakers. 请记住，他们可能会便宜，但有一个很好的机会你听到更多来自您的记录比你的朋友谁花$ 6000的发言。 Have fun. 有趣的。 That's what it's all about.— Larry Archibald 这就是全部.- 拉里阿奇博尔德
Footnote 1: The is the Seven T-mod, not the $19,000 Silver Seven on which the T-mod was based. 注1 ：是七的T模式，而不是一点九○○万美元银七上的T -模的基础。 They don't sound identical, at least according to Bob Carver talking in person; maybe Mike Kay of Lyric Hi-Fi, the only store to sell the Silver Seven, had some input in recommending that they don't sound identical. 他们不健全的相同，至少根据鲍勃1.3666谈论的人，也许迈克凯的抒情Hi - Fi的，唯一的商店出售银七，输入了一些建议，他们不健全的完全相同。 So far, Silver Seven reviewing has been confined to the environs of Sea Cliff, NY—can't imagine why.— Larry Archibald 到目前为止，银七审查一直局限在周围的海崖，纽约，不容想象为什么.- 拉里阿奇博尔德
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