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In the Thread: Lowther Driver

Post Subject: yesPosted by Dominic on: 11/16/2006

Ah yes that was the thread. You mentioned that the lowther was used too low on the hørning
because a lowther could not honestly be used for a midbass.
What i was thinking is that due to its design and retarded power to weight ratio it could be plausible to use lowthers in all of the horns but the most high. With all of them being front loaded and full size. I really do agree that lowthers have to date not been used with any sense, and of all things, how on earth is a driver with a rising response supposed to be better as a dirrect radiator.

i'm starting to think that the sentiment you express in the last paragraph is very common and perhaps comes from the plethora of misguided implementations. the driver was designed to work with the original enclosure design which was a very large front horn:

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if anyone shows interest i'll translate the description

In a way it's like a corner loaded A7 with priority given to the horn rather than the BR section. if you look at it's no wonder there seems to be an inherently tipped up balance in the Chave design as it's essentially the Voigt design. THe DX drivers are to me an abomination forced on the company by the afforementioned misguided implementations.

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