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In Reply to: RE: Odeon La Boheme update posted by morricab on October 13, 2014 at 01:02:51
Michael Fremer reviewed a pair back in 2003...
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This is a more telling comment about Odeons:
"That's why, when I saw and heard Odeon's Tosca speaker at the Frankfurt HiFi show a few years ago, I asked Axiss Distribution, the US importer of the German product, if I might review it. The Tosca's mid/HF horn was integrated with a conventional-looking baffle also containing a reflex-loaded cone woofer. For all intents and purposes, it looked like a normal loudspeaker, but what it was doing with a CD of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West was anything but. The sound made me horny (footnote 1)."
Michael was impressed with the Toscas, which are the true smaller brother to the La Boheme, however, he is wrong about the bass loading of the Tosca...it is in fact back horn loaded with an 8 inch woofer and not reflex loaded.
I have never heard the La Traviata but two things are quite different.
1) The bass of the La Traviata is an 8 inch woofer that is not horn loaded but is in a special design of vented box. My La Bohemes have a 10 inch woofer firing into a back loaded folded horn. This results in a VERY different bass quality. The La Bohemes sound quite full but very fast and percussive.
2) The tweeter horn is smaller in diameter than on my La Boheme...not sure about the cutoff frequency used.
3) Mine don't have a supertweeter...they are a 2-way.
4) My in-room balance is not at all tilted up like the measurements JA made. It is far better balanced.
5) My La Bohemes have an adjustable tweeter level (3 positions) I don't think the La Traviata's tweeter level is adjustable.
If you look at the off axis-response curves I would guess the in-room balance of the La Traviata, while still tipped up, is not as bad as it looks up close. There is a lot of directivity with the horn.
So, while I cannot comment on the sound I can sound of the La Traviata, I can tell you that it's design is somewhat different and the outcome not really the same, although I am sue there is a sonic resemblance.
did you heard the BD design horn speakers swing?
did you compared it to Odeon?
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