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In Reply to: Ryan Audio r610 standmounts posted by pc123v on May 24, 2015 at 05:28:10:
I personally own S/N 001 and participated in a evaluation of the prototype, before it made production status.
I am a Ryan dealer and was a dealer for Todd Ryan way back in the late 90's. Even at that time, when using off the shelf components, Ryan designs offered tremendous value for the their cost. One feature is their consistent use of time and phase aligned designs.
Since their their last independent designs, Ryan's have matured considerably. Despite their rather pedestrian appearance ( rectangular box,no exotic stepped cabs or anything) they are still time and phase aligned. In addition, the new Ryan's feature a custom made 6 inch woofer with an unbelievable throw of +/- 6 mm. It has unbelievable dynamic control although you may never notice the amount of throw. The claim is that even with 100 watts + distortion levels are well below 1%.
You can hear this exceedingly low ( for dynamic cone drivers) distortion as being able to discern fine low level detail even through the most dynamic passages.
The speaker takes a minimum of 200 hours to break in, BTW. You hear the lower end going lower and lower with better detail. About mid way through the break in, the top end starts its extension and you can hear an increase in the upper octaves. Very nice and very sweet.
The attention to time and phase alignment makes the speaker perform exceptionally well in the midrange, for both male and female voices. Try listening to Mary Chapin Carpenter's Come On, Come On recordings. Her duets with Joe Diffie are superb, with a great balance not achieved by many so called audiophile speakers.
As a matter of fact it is superb throughout its frequency bandwidth. Bass extension is not great but it sounds like it goes considerably deeper than its specs. My guess is that this because the second harmonics of the bass notes are so clearly defined.
FWIW and YMMV
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Follow Ups
- Caveat - unclestu 12:33:42 05/24/15 (4)
- RE: Caveat - Gary 08:09:25 05/25/15 (3)
- RE: Caveat - cpmavrick 11:05:26 05/26/15 (2)
- RE: Caveat - Ryan Speakers 07:08:48 05/30/15 (0)
- RE: Caveat - Gary 13:55:27 05/26/15 (0)
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