Is the most efficient speaker the best speaker?

Charles1dad:
"It seems the popularity and proliferation of low efficiency speakers can be traced to the advent of transistor amplifiers"

I didn't know the tracing of low efficiency speakers to be linked to solid state amplifiers. Could you please educate me on the evolution or tracing of such?

I am aware of basic speaker design and much of its evolution, I have never heard speaker design evolution linked specifically to solid state or tubed amps. I'm very interested to hear this. Thanks for your help.

Charles1dad, much of what you posted is correct, but, the perspective might be somewhat misconstrued. Yes, the advent of reliable, affordable high powered ss amplification more than 40 years ago, allowed more people to afford higher power amplification than was previously the case. It could also be argued that it permitted speaker designers greater freedom to design better speakers, than were previously viable, due to the previous constraints of the time.

Atmasphere, prove it.

Asinine, not assanine.

Hi,
Unsound, Yes I believe you understand my point,With the delvelopment of solid state power amplifiers it became possible to offer to the marketplace much higer power for considerably less money. Tube amplifiers that could yield 150 watts or higher were far more costly circa 1960s-1970s. This provided the option to build low efficiency speakers as now there were alternatives to costly high power tube amps.

Whether these speakers were "better" or not is subjective, some were fine and others were`nt.(variable results for sure). My point is that speaker builders were no longer held to a restriction in regards to efficency limits, as the era of available SS power(transistor technology) made that concern moot. One could simply build and market ever more watts to meet the demand of increasingly power hungry speakers.
Thanks,