[Arran]

Apparently the Audiophools specifically want Jensen speakers, no idea the reason why but we don't call them audiophools for nothing, likely someone's brother in law's third cousin twice removed told them it was the thing to have. I just found a listing for a 12 inch Magnavox speaker on that usual auction site that the guy is selling because he bought a Jensen cabinet thinking it had a Jensen in it but ended up with the Maggie instead. From my experience an average Magnavox is as good as a high end Jensen, Jensen made some good speakers but made a lot of cheap crap AC/DC set grade ones as well. In addition to Maganavox there is Utah, Rola, and Quam, all of which are as good if not better then Jensen, to say nothing of Phillips, and the various British, German, and Japanese made speakers.
For some reason somebody got it into their pea sized brain that an electrodynamic speaker gives better fidelity, well if they did then why did all of the high end hi fi speakers of the 1950s and 60s use pemanent magnets? Well they didn't, the frequency response is better on a PM speaker to say nothing of the omnipresent background hum you get from a field coil. It's the latest fad, just like using a Microsynchronous Victor amp chassis was all the rage a few years back because a few sleezeballs told the Japanese guys that they were made by Western Electric. But then again some of these guys think a tube rectifier gives better sound even though it's function is no different then a silicon diode. Do these idiots not believe that they made some improvements to amplifiers and speaker technology even later in the tube era? They even have some amplifiers using mercury vapor rectifiers in the power supply yet they worry about getting "clean" power from the wall outlet????? What I wonder is what happens to their "setups" after the next big thing comes along, like stuffing cow manure in the speaker enclosures to give it a more "Earthy" response, for example?
Regards
Arran