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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Pham Thanh Cuong's playback from Vietnam.

Post Subject: Yes, there is a number of questions.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/22/2010

haralanov wrote:
Even if he has his channels time aligned at digital domain, the fact that they are arranged in the horizontal plane, especially with the tweeters placed on the outer side in context of the other channels, makes his system absolutely worthless, no matter what kind of drivers he uses. Fostex T500a MkII crossed at 6300Hz? That is original !! That tweeter produces unbelievably mechanical and hard sound when used so low, and it also runs out of steam below 9-10kHz. I can very easily imagine how this system sounds like…

Probably, I do not know. My Fostex T900 sounded as you described and it was useful only from 10K. The T90, the cheaper they had was BTW much better driver then the most expensive models. I heard that Fostex when they went for MkII did change a lot but at that time I already did not care about Fostexs and never tried them. The horizontal plane? Well, this is what those guys do not get. Go you even seen ANY user of expensive Japanese drivers who get it? This is the whole problem with those “Goto-level” people. They stick those ugly green drivers in the most visible place and create the stupidest installations imaginable. Saying it the people who produce Goto drivers do not believe that amplifiers make any difference… Still, I find it interesting that Pham did not allow his Goto drivers to run too high…

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