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In Reply to: RE: I like him, too, but posted by mhardy6647 on September 17, 2016 at 08:18:24
But his reasons for liking older speakers, the linear dynamics and palpability, can also be characteristics to look for in modern transducers. In fact they are my main values in reproduction. And some modern designs do a good job too making the choir a bit bigger.
Adding the virtues of the old to the virtues of the modern would make a heck of a speaker.
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I don't hear modern designs that equal some of the old designs in a broad array of sonic characteristics. And I find that dynamics are not really a strength of any modern design other than those that essentially mimic the designs older horns.
It's not just dynamics or "you are there presence" that old designs excel at...along with the dynamics and presence the best old designs have a naturalness that new speakers do not, a sense of ease, a "directness" of the sound, that I just cannot find in newer speakers, and at this point I do not care. I'll just live with those vintage speakers that sound more like real music to me.
I agree with you in general. I was friends with Gordon Holt and he agreed with you too. His last personal speakers were active ATC speakers because he felt they provided a lot of what you are talking about. And there are a few others I'm sure. I think my own speakers do it well too but they are semi custom with a SEAS small 2 way design and a custom woofer done by the designer of the small speakers. so in a sense they don't qualify.
I agree with you about dynamics. Vintage speakers, at least some of them, have effortless dynamics and this is a big factor in my opinion in why they sound so much more real than modern speakers.
What vintage speakers do you have in your system?
Only a very few, could ever top newer designed speakers.
Both drivers and cross-overs have come a long way.
The ones you speak about are mainly 3+-way speakers with very unfriendly load characteristics.
In smoothness and flat response and bandwidth, yes. But not in linear dynamics so much with a possible few exceptions.
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