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In the Thread: Bye-Bye, Fane
Post Subject: If I were not pleased with Fane I would look into this future.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/16/2009
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 jessie.dazzle wrote: |
| Have you ever tried the Community M4? I'd still like to try this driver. |
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Yes, I think we had a convesation about in the “The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? “ thread, I have linked it to current thread. Community M4 would be a perfect driver for type of the horn I use and of cause I tried it, in fact I tried it before I discovered Fanes. Unfortunately sonically M4 is beyond of being horrible. It sounds in a way similar to the celebrated by Morons BMS driver, only 43902 levels worse. M4 has insultingly-gray sound with huge compression, flat and not articulate with only b/w compressed contrasts. It always sounds like a telephone from 30s or AM from hand-held radio. The contrast between the Community objectives and what they actually done is just stunning.
http://www.loudspeakers.net/files/technote/M4%20White%20Paper.pdf?PHPSESSID=f38da9ed4831c2a8c2d370de73088b16
http://www.loudspeakers.net/files/specs/new/m4.pdf
I have to note that with all my negativism about this driver, I believe that did not sold them and they might still sitting somewhere deep into my storage, perhaps already turn rusty. I do not know what is the reason of such a bad sound from M4 but I presume that sometimes it would be worth to redo the driver somehow. Perhaps some things might be changed and modified in there and it might throw better sound. The idea to have 4” compression driver for my home does sound attractive…. If I were not pleased with Fane I would look into this future.
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