Consumer Electronics

LOUDSPEAKERS

The choice of a suitable loudspeaker is very important for both disc and tape reproduction. While it would be wrong to assume that price is the only guide available, normally the higher grades of loudspeaker will justify their cost by giving correspondingly better reproduction. The choice should never be made hastily. It is not sufficient to listen to one or two records because it is easy to construct a system which will sound impressive at first hearing. Extended periods of listening to music are desirable to discover if mental fatigue is likely to be caused by the system. Furthermore, because it is easier to judge speaker quality by listening to comparatively simple sounds rather than to full orchestral recordings, the system should ...