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In Reply to: RE: I like you're thinking - The Dead posted by A.Wayne on July 31, 2016 at 10:08:24
I have the older Grand Veenas with the Murata Supertweeter. I far, far prefer no crossover. Crossovers are designed to overcome speaker deficiencies which well designed ones can do. Their next problem is to "do no harm" which is very, very difficult to do. My speaker's only requirement is that I provide a high quality amp to push the midrange and tweeter directly which my Quicksilver 88s do superbly.
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IMO, Multi-way speakers with an Xover is vastly superior to any one single piston dynamic driver , the shortcomings and increased distortion you described is what you are really listening to with that wide open driver, not the other way around , only a large surface area full range ESL could support HI-Fi without an xover ..2driver Speakers with a Dome tweeter is not xoverless
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If you are implying that the GV has increased distortion, I would sincerely ask if you have heard this speaker?
I have owned a lot, and I mean a lot, of speakers over the years. The Grand Veena stands at or near the top of that list.
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
It has plenty xover ....
"Inside the Grand Veena
A veena (in case you've been wondering) is a musical instrument from southern India that looks like the offspring of a lute and a sitar. The Grand Veena is Reference 3A's latest venture into the market of speakers of near to full frequency range. With two 8" woofers covering the bass, a 6.5" midrange/midbass driver, a dome tweeter, and a ceramic high-frequency exciter/supertweeter operating above 20kHz (more about this later), R3A's intention for the Grand Veena is to leave no frequency uncovered, even those usually considered inaudible. With a rated sensitivity of 90dB and a resistance of 5 ohms (+0.5 ohm), the speaker is compatible with most amplifiers.
The midrange/midbass driver is the Grand Veena's heart. It functions unfettered by electronic crossovers or capacitors, which makes it extremely sensitive and responsive to musical information. Its operation is regulated only by the sealed enclosure, which starts rolling it off with a mechanical first-order, high-pass crossover at about 94Hz; its low-pass mechanical fadeout starts at around 3kHz. Cone breakup is minimized through the use of such materials as carbon fiber and an intrinsically rigid "hyperexponential" shape (like the bell of a trumpet), which also helps it achieve its goal of maintaining phase accuracy across its frequency range. That goal is aided, too, by an unusual blunt-ended phase plug in the middle of the driver."
Never implied nor were my comments directed at the GV, my comments where about xoverless dynamic speakers in general.
Ok, good enough.....{-:
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
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