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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The 5-ways from Germany.
Post Subject: All is not lostPosted by anthony on: 2/13/2018
Hi Josh,

I think it is all a matter of perspective.  Personally, I would be very surprised if the key elements of the sound of that system that so impressed you is due to the Goto drivers.  There are at least three more important things:  that big room that make it possible to use enormous bass horns without equalisation; Klaus and friends' apparent ability to discriminate sound and their objectives about sound; 30 years of trial and error.  The big horns do not make sense if your room is anything less than enormous.

I am in the late stages of duplicating Macondo and Melquiades DSET.  This project is not about building my 'end of game' acoustic system, rather it is about building the starting point to those ends.  With the right technique and honest appraisal of results and methods I hope to be able to craft Macondo Melquiades to satisfy my circumstances and requirements.  In no way do I expect to be completely happy once I get the first sound and I will have to work hard at it to get the end result, perhaps changing channels and other things along the way.  So perhaps you could treat your Faux Olympian in the same way?  Those components certainly have an awful lot of potential and are likely a very good starting point for your highly dynamic system sans Goto.  The Vitavox stuff is even the building board for Macondo so there seems to be more than one way to get good results from them.  

Cheers,
Anthony

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