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I care less about Bret and his business, in fact I have no idea who is he. Since he use audio as business then what distinct him from any other audio whore. A purpose of any business is supply demands and capitalize on the frustrations, investin...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]That sucks. I use to have a box of perhaps a dozen of YO186 but I did not see it for a while, pretty much from the time I moved to new house. I was listening today some of my “critical” reference stuff and concluded with ve...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] There may be better drivers out there, but with my level of experience, I doubt my abilities to recognize them. So though it may resemble laziness on my part (remember, this is the same person that will be constructing a ...
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[quote user="angeloitacare"]s2 drivers on ebay, forget it, there are none available, and if, they will not go for less than a 2 - 3 thousend dollars.<BR>my interest wake up with your propaganda on these drivers. i also do not ...
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I have posted about some of my recent experience with longer "naked" HF ribbons in Romy's "Water Drop" thread. Here are some observations that relate these drivers back to the ML2s, along with some other recent ML2 trivia.My speakers are listed...
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I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons. I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound. They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now. Also, the price I paid is less than...
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This thread is a derivation of the thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and...[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]While in general I agree with Romy about Wilsons, I have once or twice heard them sound really, really good. On the other hand I have also he...
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Hi Romy,I've seen and heard many products in which an aspect of the design is interesting, even thought provoking but where that idea's implementation is poorly achieved. It doesn't mean that one can't learn anything from the product even if it's onl...
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farmeroni! hope the plants are doing went well this season... [I have recently had 4 sealed bass bins made each with 2 8" scanspeak drivers. I dont have them yet. Every other speaker I have stinks worse than the Fridge. Good Luck!] 4 seale...
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IMHO one of these drivers that make you listen to the music at first, but something isn't quite "right". Put it on a - big - open baffle and cut at 200 and use maybe up to 2500Hz. Problematic with female voices, like opera and so on. It distorts quit...
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If LF are sealed, I would suspect that the strong SS/hybrid would be better able to keep the drivers "off the air cushion". When the drivers get to that point I hear something I would describe like this: Take your fingernail and...
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I agree entirely with your sentiments regarding marketing bs and its new found application in the promotion of field coils. I do have a problem however with the notion that the reproduction of 'western' music requires different attributes than ...
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I have been surprised that you have not already pursued the Zarathustra for your multi-driver, sealed LF. From your early descriptions of both, this seemed like a natural pairing and the most likely way to go, to keep the drivers "off the ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I am not sure what drives you: a desire to but a speaker of a desire to initiate a new group buy for ScanSpeak drivers. Knowing you I am pretty sure that if I do not put a stupid smiley face in the end of the last sentance ...
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The hardest part of making the cork gaskets would be making a decent template. After that, it's just rote labor.You might also want to mess with whatever you are using to fasten the drivers to the baffle. These fsteners should probably al...
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I have tried both simple, "FR" drivers and multi-ways, and I think you are on to something with the "simpler presentation". As a generic example, think of the "cult" "FR" drivers driven by cult SETs, playing cello music. I have gotten goosebumps from...
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How does the SPL/dynamic range correlate to frequency? Most of the old 10" drivers can play louder if not pushed down too far. I think as the years passed, the Tannoy had like most similar drivers a sort of "sliding scale" dynamics, and they would pl...
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Bill, I had an issue like you described with your right speaker that I FINALLY traced to a "cold" solder joint in an RCA plug, on the amp end of the right pre-to-amp IC. To my ears, the old paper drivers are very, very sensitive to their "surrounding...
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MS2, I don't care much about compression drivers, but I have spent the past 2 1/2 years playing with direct drivers, trying to figure out what makes good sound. And no matter any notions about "scientific discoveries", the whole process has been the...
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Kerry, thank you for sharing your paper diaphragm idea. Very interesting. As I remember it, the Cogent diaphragm I saw (and listened to) at Steve and Rich's place was a flat disc of something like fiberglass, and it looked relatively heavy for the ap...
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Romy, Radian 475be performs best over 2K. It has some distortion around 1700 Hz. I think in general that 1 inch drivers should not be used lower than 2K.I understand your point that the practical implementation is more important than a "best practice...
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[quote user="rowuk"] If this is the best that your
engineers have to offer, you need better engineers. Bruce Edgar did far better
by himself without those engineers. [/quote] Rowuk, you raised two subjects that in my view worth to
cover.
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Robin, I don't know why, but for no reason at all I was thinking the 1" polyester driver was a dome! Its being a compression driver likely means a 2" diaphragm, and it certainly opens the door for sub-2kHz performance. Actually, it's 8" drivers doing...
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The thing about horns is, "developing" them consumes a lot in terms of time and materials, and they are expensive to materialize. SPL modeling programs can be great for getting in the ballpark, but YMMV when it comes to "level of demands" from a hi-f...
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Since no driver is actually full range, driver selection is partly conditioned by how well it plays with the other drivers it will be used with, and - very certainly - the crossovers it will be used with, also baffle shape(s) and size(s), amps(s), an...
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Anthony, I agree with your central observation, and I have used paralleled HF drivers for decades, starting with the old Peerless paper tweeters paired with RTR6 electrostatic arrays, and now paper whizzers with Audaphon ribbons. As you know, this ca...
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Hi Romy,
Give the ribbons a try http://www.e-speakers.com/products/beengineering.html. These are too expensive I think but believe me the sensitivity is real. The best part is also that the impedance is very flat and an easy amplifier l...
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The point of the field coil is to saturate the piss out of the magnetic circuit so that the coil flux does not modulate the motor. Romy, I suspect that your experience of them may be based on an older drivers where saturation was not the name of the ...
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Serge, it is a common misconception that the old Altec cinema/PA systems were lovingly built and installed with tubes or high-fidelity "music playback" in mind. In fact, they were meant to be LOUD and durable sound reinforcement tools, while maintai...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] noviygera wrote:p.s from my experience of having a 500 sq. ft. listening room with 7 ft. ceiling and having two 18" woofers in a infinite baffle configuration, it is not enough to pressurize the room. I am talking about lo...
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