Grand Standers

摘要

In the beginning, speakers were big and bulky. They were especially so if you happened to want any sort of half-decent bass response. Today, most people expect loudspeakers to be slim, while still delivering the goods at the bottom end. Fortunately, with modern driver technology and cabinet design, this is now possible. For a start, 'long-throw' bass drive units of 165mm (6.5 inch) diameter or less have replaced the old 200mm (8 inch) and 250mm (10 inch) types, once thought essential for serious hi-fi. Another way of getting good bass out of smaller drive units is to use more of them, their combined cone area (and hence the amount of air being moved) being equivalent to that of a much larger single cone. So pairs of bass units have now become the norm for floorstanding speakers.