All of those you mentioned are coners/domers..

Posted by thoriated_tiger (A) on December 26, 2003 at 10:08:47

In Reply to: Re: Perhaps something else? posted by NoTransistors on December 26, 2003 at 08:58:17:

If you have the chance to listen to a pair of medium-to-large horns, do so. I think it'll be an eye-opening thing. The compression horn speaker is pretty much the lowest-distortion reproducers out there. Folks have written about it, and once I tasted it I became a believer as well.

The sound is open, airy, transparent, punchy, powerful, refined, smooth, detailed, full-bodied, all at once.

IMO, go straight to the mid-horn designs (sadly no longer made, except for the Heritage line.) The magic is 80% in that mid horn. My SF2's have mids coming from the woofers, and an alum. tweeter compression horn. The result was a hard treble, and a notchy, dirty midrange. Typical coner sound.

The fortes are mid-horn, tweet-horn, cone woof. Night and day difference.

Took me almost 20 years to get my pair. It was well worth the wait. They literally re-defined what hi-fi is for me. After so many years of trying, I can finally say the system I have is truly high-fidelity.

Oh I forgot to mention. The amp I use, and have used for a few years, is a stock rebuilt Stereo 70 with SDS Lab's cap board. ARC SP6A does the preamp work. Absolutely no hard / harshness with the fortes. But it was an ear-driller with the SF2, L100's, Infi SM110's. It wasn't the amp. It was the speakers. In my case, anyway. I was hearing the @#@#! cone midrange. And in 2 cases, metal tweets.. those things should be abolished! ( the SM110 has polycell foam tweets. Didn't matter. The midrange still sucked. )

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Topic - ST-70/PAS - NoTransistors 16:41:15 12/24/03 (19)

Perhaps something else? - thoriated_tiger 08:15:53 12/26/03 (5)

Re: small???? dream speaker - Russ57 09:14:13 12/26/03 (2)

My sense of size is a li'l warped ;o) - thoriated_tiger 09:43:48 12/26/03 (1)

FortÃ© dimensions: 35"h x 16.5"w x 13"d 70 lbs. [nt] - thoriated_tiger 11:13:59 12/26/03 (0)

Re: Perhaps something else? - NoTransistors 08:58:17 12/26/03 (1)

All of those you mentioned are coners/domers.. - thoriated_tiger 10:08:47 12/26/03 (0)

It's the PAS preamp sometimes! - spkrman57 05:37:46 12/26/03 (1)

Re: It's the PAS preamp sometimes! - NoTransistors 07:32:07 12/26/03 (0)

Re: ST-70/PAS - DaveV 13:34:46 12/25/03 (6)

Re: ST-70/PAS - airtime 16:14:54 12/25/03 (2)

Re: ST-70/PAS - DaveV 18:52:22 12/25/03 (1)

Re: ST-70/PAS - vivid 2 04:55:35 12/27/03 (0)

Re: ST-70/PAS - NoTransistors 15:13:16 12/25/03 (2)

Re: ST-70/PAS - DaveV 19:16:47 12/25/03 (1)

The X-202-B, and LK-72B, are both 7591, of all things. (N.T.) - NoTransistors 20:05:46 12/25/03 (0)

Re: ST-70/PAS - vivid 2 18:46:33 12/24/03 (1)

Perhaps we both have feline genes. (read my other post) - NoTransistors 19:21:56 12/24/03 (0)

Re: ST-70/PAS - airtime 17:39:13 12/24/03 (1)

Re: ST-70/PAS - NoTransistors 18:32:04 12/24/03 (0)

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All of those you mentioned are coners/domers.. - thoriated_tiger 10:08:47 12/26/03 (0)

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