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In Reply to: RE: Tekton posted by Mick Wolfe on September 19, 2014 at 11:31:53
Thanks for the response Mick.
I actually owned the regular Lores for about a year or so. Ended up selling them to a friend. i really liked them (damn exciting), but there was just this ever so slight edge in the upper mids or lower highs that I couldn't alleviate. I ended up purchasing the Lore-S model. It is more refined all around and more detailed, but I think a little less full. More "audiophile" and slightly less fun. I have a very neutral and detailed low powered tube amp and I can't help but think that I would have been better moving to the more forgiving M-Lores.
Does this make sense?
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Sonicboom might have a good point. When I listened to a pair of Lore's for the first time, the whizzer was the first thing that caught my eye. My friend had upgraded the x-over with better components ( a total PITA BTW ) of the same original values in an effort to tame things down a bit. I think he was partially successful, but the whizzer may have been the real culprit all along. Nonetheless, his Lore's sounded pretty good when driven with tubes (Latino ST 70) vs his solid state JOB 225. This all said, and I'm using sonic memory here, the M-Lore doesn't have a whizzer and it's overall presentation is more laid back. After owning it for a few weeks, I concluded that it fell more in the "music lover" category yet had no trouble highlighting component changes and superior program material. Your decision is now only complicated by the fact the new Lore no longer has the whizzer.
Thanks Mick and Sonic. Your comments confirm my thoughts and experience. I too have a glorious refurbished ST-70 and an even better EL84 SEP by Finale Audio here in Canada. Both sets of Lores were great with tubes. And you are both right in that my decision is now further complicated by the new reference Lore. Would have popped for the M-Lore just for kicks, but now I'm stuck.
Well to further complicate, the Oriel 10 looks just as interesting at a $150 savings over the Lore/Lore Ref. Looks like it might have the same soft dome tweeter as the M-Lore. Maybe a call to Eric is in order.
Please let us know what happens.
If I can sell a piece of gear I no longer use, I might pop, too.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
> > I actually owned the regular Lores for about a year or so. Ended up selling them to a friend. i really liked them (damn exciting), but there was just this ever so slight edge in the upper mids or lower highs that I couldn't alleviate < <
In my experience, this "edge" is more than likely due to the whizzer cone. I may be a bit more sensitive to this coloration than most, but I've never heard a driver with a whizzer (even the expensive ones like Lowthers and AER's) that didn't exhibit this issue in the upper mids to some extent. Then again I haven't heard all the whizzer coned drivers out there, so there maybe one or more that manage to avoid this. By the way, in the new Lore Reference, the driver does not have a whizzer cone so it's possible that this "edge" is now gone.
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