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In Reply to: RE: My daughter has the ARLSTs posted by Michael Samra on November 03, 2016 at 02:00:49
Wow. That must sound amazing.
There's a guy over at the Classic Speaker Pages that runs stacked LST's with (I believe) a couple of the big Phase Linear amps. And he listens loudly evidently. He also lives alone way out in the country. There are always trade offs.
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When Mark Levinson ran Cello he included a speaker, the Amati, in his line up which looked like a copy of the AR LST. So that seemed either a high complement or a bit of plagiarizing.I only heard a pair of LSTs once, and while they sounded good, I felt they may have been underpowered. Never did hear the AR-9 but was curious about them.
Edit - correcting spell check correction!
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
Edits: 11/05/16
To set the record straight, Mark Levinson obtained permission or "rights" from AR to build and market an LST inspired speaker called the Amati.
Thanks Dave, I never read that before.
"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." Thelonious Monk
I don't recall seeing that in print either but I have seen comments about Cello and the LST with a different name so I thought I should make that fact known in case there are people that think Mark somehow got away with an LST knockoff without AR approval.
I said they were LST inspired because the woofers and tweeters were not the same as found in the AR LST or AR3A, there was no autoformer with a aural balance switch and the four mids and tweeters were wired in parallel instead of series parallel.
The Cello Performance amps were quite capable of handling that load because they were designed with that in mind.
The later Amati had Dynaudio drivers in them.
ML/ Cello used modified AR dome drivers. The midrange was used without the protective grille and diffractive felt. The Amati had specific installation requirements, thus did not need the autoformer to accommodate mounting in several wall/boundary locations.
The details are buried in the archives of the classicspeakerpages.net AR forum.
Best,
Ross
You must be referring to the later Amati with the Dynaudio drivers because the Amati with the mids from AR did have the metal grilles and foam.
As for the autoformer, Mark just didn't want an autoformer in the signal path.
Being that the woofer and tweeters were not the same as in the original AR LST, the balance was automatically different.
But as for placement,the full blown Cello System was stacked Amati or two per channel mounted on granite stands and they were most often than not set up away from a back wall but the decision not to use an autoformer was made before any were even built.
The you had the KLH 28.
They sound incredible when I have them both setup.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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