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In the Thread: High End 2012 in Germany
Post Subject: Not TAD anymore…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/7/2012
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 el`Ol wrote:
I think they could could make the sound more pleasant with an overkill of second harmonic distortion. But for people who prefer that kind of sound a relax-horn like Anima would be better anyway. No real solution. Maybe they should try the Radian aluminium diaphragms for TAD.

I think it has nothing to do with second harmonic. One gets more masking effect and more palatable sound but I do not think that this is the problem of Cessaro. Cessaro is a tough spot as they need a good MF compression driver that is stable and available. Anybody know that anybody can make an simple MF horn, buy of eBay some kind of kinky vintage compression driver, clean and tune it up, load it into the horn and to get MF sound that will be way more interesting then the default Cessaro/TAD offers. It will not be problem-free sound as vintage drivers come with own array of complex problems but it for all intended purposes will not be “not TAD anymore.” Unfortunately Cessaro can’t do it as they are production company and they need a reliable and very stable supply, they just can’t rely upon very spotty market of vintage drivers.

Different companies do different things. Some use the existing contemporary big name drivers, all of them not really good. Some of them use the existing contemporary drivers and claim that they modify them, most of the claim BS however. Some of companies do make their own drivers and I do like this approach. For instance AG made this own MF driver. It was no way good driver and no way own driver – they just took no-name cheap OEM driver and made it as their own. Still I think it was a good move as it did have own sound and it become the AG signature sound. I think Cessaro can afford to make their own MF driver, it might be even good MF driver and this will let Cessaro marketing to state that this is their own unique system, not only a fancy stand for TADs.

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