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[quote user="Merlin"]Where Romy is wrong is the cost of TAD drive units.[/quote]Well, perhaps my outdated memory plays a bad joke on me. What I remember from beginning of 2000s that TAD 2001 cost around $1200 retail with “street price” of $900. The w...
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Romy Hi, Raplh uses a 300b push pull, but the power supplies are massive, parts alone 15K Euros, each channel has a separate supply, the pre-amp again two massive power supplies , he prefers to use eight of the horn loaded bass bins, although I...
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I certainly think you must use an active device for the bass/mid transition in any serious design at this level. Choice of amplifiers will be personal. I don't have the worry of output transormers.
I have heard both these and the Cessaro though (...
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I had my visit in Munich yesterday and the Cessaro´s performance was totally different. Tonally without any compromize, so it was a pleasure to stay in the room this time :) Unfortunately very much on the muddy side. I think I start to understan...
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Coops,there were more than a hundred rooms at that show (including the cabins of the small manufacturers in the ground floor) and I had no other chance than giving many of them just seconds, so I only stayed longer when I liked the sound after these ...
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[quote user="coops"]I would never presume to make such a claim, regarding active bass,I have heard quite a few systems now where the ( active )bass is very disjointed, Avantgardes for example, and the music just does not flow, but I will discuss your...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy will you visit next years CES ,2008? Regards Keith.[/quote]What of your Cessaro will be showing in there? Will it be Gamma? If you thinking to do it then who is your US distributor? Are you planning to fish one at/after the s...
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Sorry Romy. Which loudspeaker are we talking about? Do you have a picture at all?
As for the Cessaro mod, it didn't sound very different to me - certainly not worth the effort. I'd be interested to know where they crossover to the ET-703. The Alph...
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[quote user="coops"]I have re-read your post and your tone sugests that field coil drivers wi be used by manufacturers purely for their marketing appeal and not for any sonic improvement, Thomas Woschnick has just taken delivery of a pair of Ce...
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Well, it is always difficult to me to deal with audio people because any expressing any abstract notion in front of them those enslaved people perceived as a preamble to some kind of “deliverable good” and the sick audiophile imagination has already ...
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I have thought many times about trying to have an Audio System like Macondo Horn Loudspeaker System and if I could get good result then I will demo it in munich high end show.this is a big project for me because I am not expert and I have no DIY expe...
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Thanks for input! This is the kind of information I am looking for. My feeling is one driver can't do it all. But audio reviews say this Cube Audio driver is revolutionary and finally we can have it all. As it meets the criteria of no crossover to sc...
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I just visited the Highend in Munich and had the chance to listen to two of those monster SETs. Cessaro showed up with monstrous 833 amps and my thought was that there is something wrong with the music. I know it is common in this forum to describe w...
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[quote user="Purite Audio"]…. dual skinned carbon/fibreglass horns, which are filled with a liquid polymer… [/quote] Wow, this is new. I never even though about it. We fill hoe with sand, tape it with wax but I very seen or hear of anybody make horns...
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[quote user="de charlus"]As for Hi-Fi, a few recommendations would be; Walrus Audio, Riverside Hi-Fi, The Listening Rooms, Audio Lounge and Classic Hi-Fi in Finsbury Park for all things valve, horn and analogue.[/quote] Hm, I have absolutely no inter...
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Cessaro once again didn't manage to find electronics that compensate the cold TAD sound, so the Silbaton WE demonstration one or two rooms away was quite a contrast. Without being addicted to that kind of sound and without having too much listening e...
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Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy are there any good commercially available horns that sre any good? What about AvantGarde I heard their Trio's recently, how far away are there from being good/ thanks Keith.[/quote] Keith, please do not take it personally. Yo...
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romyregarding the quality of the cessaro speaker u may be right. regarding the price : the whole thing would be better, if the owner would not be so ambitious, to get rich quick, and ask a decent price. the price he is asking is...
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]
compression drivers are the way to go as far as i am concerned but obviously performance depends on the horn lens.
my beef with ET-703 is that i don't understand its horn or whatever it is. if not an explana...
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[quote user="Merlin"] If they are modifying conventional drive units by hand, the labour costs alone can be prohibitively expensive. The fact that they are using heavy Alnico magnets and coating the diaphrams suggests that these units do not co...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy Hi, I didn't particularly set out to 'demean' Avantgarde, they have a good business model, I don't believe it is a secret that they modify conventional drivers, I simply mean that the constituent parts of a Cessaro horn ...
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Hello Romy!Cessaro had severe resonance problems in their room, so I didn´t stay long here. What I noticed in the short time (maybe too short for a qualified judgement) was no stabiltiy broblems but less musical than the 300B last year. Hard to descr...
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There was some kind of hi-fi show in Gernany and it looks like Cessaro showed off a new version of Gamma. They look like change the frame. I really do not like what they look now. They look heavier with new frame and much less elegant. They looks lik...
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This is what the Cessaro sounded like last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvA43ym5cYo&feature=youtu.beI don't think he's "upgraded" his camera in the meantime.There's this other "local guy" doing video reports with reasonably good sound bu...
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The demonstration of the WE equipment was impressive as was looking closely at how these horns were constructed. The arrangement (originally it would have been mono) was to provide the audience seated both in the stalls or circle with an evenly bala...
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Paul Hi, I don't consider myself a dealer, just an enthusiast, I just wanted to discover just what was possible with audio replay, Thomas Woschnicks system (whee i first heard the Alpha's ) was just more real more like real life than anything I had b...
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[quote
user="martinshorn"] Indeed you sound a little racist, but i think we all have our prejudice. [/quote]
I do not think that it is racist
in any way or form. Racism is a prejudice against a race in my case it is prejudice
and historic...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy rain all this weekend so have been listening to the Stahl-Tek and the MSB platinum III with 'signature' upgrades , MSB seems to float the sound ona cloud of coton candy, almost to the detriment of resolution , perhaps there i...
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Going in circles is bad for your health. Just like every other thread on expensive gear, the name calling starts where the good reason stops.Regardless of how we calculate, 100K is artificial because there are people willing to pay it. It has NOTHIN...
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