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I just picked up a pair of Speakerlab DAS7's. I currently am using ADS L710's. My friends insist that I will like the Seakerlab's better. I have my doubts. What do you guys think?
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Why not wait until you listen to both? Like is a decision only you can make. And this is coming from someone who highly values mwasurements and how well things are designed.
Looking at the crossover design, you find that the 6.5" midrange is run to 5 kHz - waaayyy beyond its comfort zone like old JBLs.
You can count on the directivity at the top of the midrange driver's range to be shrunken (2.7" wavelength via 5.5" piston). You're likely to find "funhouse mirror" soundstaging with the transition to dome tweeter going from severely clamped down to wide open.
The ADS does not share that fundamental fault. It's 2.5" dome midrange crosses over to the tweeter at 4 kHz if memory serves. As one who highly values coherency, I'd most likely find the "Digital Audio Speaker" to sound weird.
The Speaker Lab designs seems to be a clear example of that period. That 80's early techno sound that always seemed to have a strange "clank" to their sound. I've heard a number of early 80's speakers and they all had a classic over the top (past the comfort zone of the midrange) beamy harsh midrange and top end. I think that was where the synthesizers "special effects" sat.
If there was one decade I DON'T miss, it was the 80's!!!!!
Charles - child of the late 60's and early 70's
I too grew up in the 60's and 70's. And had a lot of experience with equipment in the 80's. Mostly all mid fi
Boston Acoustics
Mission - Loved the 770's
ADS - Still own a pr of L810's with stands
Kef
B&W - They blew tweeters a lot but sounded good
Gale - One of my favorites
Ohm
McIntosh
Burhoe Acoustics
Tangent
But I didn't listen to techno- Classic Rock for me....
710's FTW.
"To Learn Who Rules Over You, Simply Find Out Who You Are Not Allowed to Criticize."
-Voltaire
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