I’ve heard people take about speakers that are good for Home Theater but not listening to music, i’ve all ways felt like speakers that are bad for music are probably just bad.
i would agree with some levels.
Speakers produce the sounds that is needed with great power and guality and if they do a great job with music. They do it great with movies.
The thing is tough. If someone listens to very light music with “light weight series” speakers, jazz or some short. Lots of midrange and singing etc.
With movies. There are usually those with low end special effect. Booms and bangs, the “light weight speakers” cannot produce those sounds with authoritah.
Great blast is just a tiny pop. Earth and room shaking rumble is just cone movement if that and nothing. The feel of movies aint there.
And if you have more certified home theater speaker or just big blasting speakers. Let’s say “heavy weight speakers”. The booms and bangs are there and low end rumble. All the authoritah that makes you feel like you really in the movies.
They might and its a might.
Not work with earlier mentioned “light weight music”. Really nice singing and high notes can sound… not so good. Tweeters and midrange drivers are not producing the sound beatifully.
So that’s partly the reason the some might say they do not match. Audiophiles tend to like some short of way the music is produced to them and options are so personal.
Not just speakers. You need a tube amp. you need this dac, you need this and that and multichannel is rubish and… all.
BUT.
If you have properly good speakers, they need size and quality. Great amp’s and processors and lots of toys.
That produce sounds like angels and mermaids are singing you to your doom and earthquakes are felt by next doors neighbours neighbours.
You have both worlds in one.
Also things like WAF and others effect. You might have 2 nice looking speakers and play the tunes nicely and low volume in living room but cannot place more “prograde” speakers there and like 13 of them cause they look like tools and make loud noises, even if they are suberb with music.
I’ve always been of the opinion that if you want to shake the room with bass get a sub, actually get two of them and blend with with the speakers, but audiophiles for whatever reason, dislike subs, many of them feel you can’t blend them well, I never notice that my subs are active, sounds like the bass is coming from the speakers, but if I turn them off it sounds like half my system is gone. granted my speakers are THX certified so they are internally crossed over at 80hz, THX is of the mindset the all LFE should go to the subs and not waste amp power trying to reproduce low frequencies in the speakers, so they sound wimpy without the subs on.
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That’s why you would need bigger speakers, more power and larger drivers.
From the current setup and settings im running. There just is a wall of sub bass coming from the front of room. Like a wave NO a tidal wave. Not from speakers, not from sub’s. It’s just there and plenty of it, if needed. There blend fully with main speakers.
I can use main speakers without sub’s but still there is bass to 30hz with 100db volume or more if needed. Think the crossover is near 50hz at the moment.
So only a small portion is missing if sub’s are off. Some like the word “punch”, well there is volume, bass and authority just from main speakers.
If you get the full cinema experience and loudness with sound in the room but with better sound quality or high sound quality.
You have both worlds then again. Works with music and movies.
My speakers are no slouch, they’ll rip your ears off in my tiny room, I get the same wall of sound feeling from them with the subs on, but they have very little bass because they are a THX speaker, I think music sounds really good on them, but I’ve had audiophile friends tell me that they are theater speakers and aren’t for music, I thought the Joker Sounded fantastic and that movie has a ton of music in it, and I listen to a lot of music on them, a buddy of mine has even mixed on them before because they messure super flat 20hz-20khz, but pro audio guys seem to care a lot less about if a speaker is (musical) or not.
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I’m a 2 channel guy now but started with surround system, I’ve always viewed a HT setup is more quantity and less quality…
My old Denon AVR receiver and Klipsch speakers were awesome and great at volume and realism. But that system wasnt nearly as musical and sweet as my current 2 channel setup.