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In Reply to: Re: Don't Forget Open Bafle. posted by Inkasound on April 7, 2007 at 16:22:27:
Lowthers on front horns are wonderfull, adictive, sweet and coherent, If you are listening to only girl with guitar music and dont mind getting addicted to the shout, or missing some things from the music, I guess one could live with lowthers for life. They sound so good on front horns I think its a sin to put them on an OB.
If you are a more serious music lover, compression drivers (and of course FLH) are way more detailed, yes they are also sweet and involving, (probably not so romantic) but the are accurate and will play any kind of music at its best, the most complicated music is at home with compression drivers, nothing will get away from your speakers. I do believe compression drivers on front horns are the end of the road for serious audiophiles, the lower freq. you can cover the better.
Of course there are crappy compression or cone drivers everywhere...
Follow Ups:
Hey Saturn,
i just put my AER in some front horns.
Ok sounds just great. that boosts gently the
200Hz-500Hz as i wished.
But I swear: it sounds sweet -ie. no shout -- and I can
play Malher 5 loud (though i don't know what "loud"
means to you).I will try compression drivers for fun at some point.
But big advantage with the AER i am nearly fullrange
with them.
Hello Vince,The shout with the front horn is actually very nice!!!
Women voices have a very nice presence and guitars come out wonderfully, "wow I never heard those guitars like that" yes because the bump in freq. makes them bigger than they actually are and this is nice and addictive, you play the same song in a flat system and the voices will be more laid back and guitars not so present, you will miss them and run back to your "colored" Lowther horns which sound beautifull. AER are suppossed to have no shout (or freq. peak) I heard them on a friends Horns system and loved them but could not say if they have a shout or not.
While some sounds come out larger than life, some other instruments may be laid back and almost hidden from the presentation, you may not miss them or they could come out in another moment of the song. With compression drivers, the presentation is true and merciless, you will be able to follow any instrument playing for the whole length of the song, and it will be dynamic and transparent. With my "shout addiction" horns help a lot as to avoid missing the nice presence in voices that I was used to with Lowthers.
With Lowthers in boxes the shout becomes annoying, without the 200hz-500hz boost the 2k boost really just shouts at you.
Whenever you can just get a couple of cheap Altec 800 series drivers with respective 811 horns (or 511 even better) and get ready to be floored!
yes, wife and children are away
and i listened seriously
for about 3 hours of opera etc...
voices are too good but true still a
slight bump at 2khz when in axis...
I will try to mod the horns, i am still
trying.Ciao,
Vincent.PS: Ideas where to find reasonably pricey
and good sounding wide range compression drivers?
I am on the same quest:
My short list of new drivers:GOTO SG-370 400hz to 18khz $2,591
TAD 2001 400hz to 18khz $1,085
BEYMA CP750/Nd 500hz to 18khz $599
GPA 399 500hz to 15khz $325
GPA 909 800hz to 18khz $202
Radian 475 800hz to 18khz $179The way I see it if you can spend $5k on a Tube amp get the GOTO.
If you can spend $2k on some cables or a Cartridge get the TAD.
I am sure I will get a bigger improvement on sound from a compression driver.
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