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In the Thread: Truth stretched out via Feastrex prism.
Post Subject: i had written morePosted by Dominic on: 2/14/2007
 Paul S wrote:
First, I just have to ask: What are the odds that the same AA guy I just referred to obliquely in my previous post turns up immediately thereafter?


pretty good since he's the only guy who talks about them?

 Paul S wrote:
Unlike Romy, I have no problem with "yellow drivers", per se, rather it is the fact that people insist on calling them "full-range" that sticks in my craw.  And here is this pip-squeak 4" driver touted as God's gift to music, and here are grown men vying to enter a lottery for the chance to buy one at great expense.

And, oh yes, the hyperbole; as though exotic construction will somehow suspend the laws of Nature.


i'm not sure there's an intelligent response to such a vitriolic attitude, but we might try: if the single ended topology was god's gift in the  amplifier realm, why can't a single driver, in the speaker realm. The limits of each seem to be approximately the same, and so with the virtues, the only real difference is that we can get around the difficulties of the SE by throwing many thousands of dollars in iron at it. I think the hope of the those who develop single driver designs is along the same lines, hence field coils, lowther inspiration, etcetera.

 Paul S wrote:

But now I am wondering if any of the drivers in question - forget the enclosures and "FR" business - might actually do some part of the sound spectrum well.  Of course this question derives from personal experience at taming Lowthers, and to elaborate, my question is whether targeted listening might indeed reveal something these powerful and carefully-constructed midgets could excell at - say, 1k - 10k Hz.  Not that I would want a crossover at 1k, but some of you hornys out there don't blink at this.

In my mind, this situation loops back through and mirrors "the idea of the idea", where someone sticks with a formula because the formula itself seems so attractive, unto an end in itself.  In this case I'm curious about the "opposite", if the current made object could be commandeered and put to better use elsehow.

Curiously wondering,


yer bet nah, but! As Viki Pollard might say.
That is the reason i started that thread about lowthers, and i assume why you had your little lowther open baffle project.
I think the crux of the biscuit is that 'hard' drivers, as in with huge power to weight ratios and no inherent acoustic loading, and or field coil drivers, require different kinds of approach, that perhaps aren't fully understood by their parctitioners, meanwhile there seems a constant, though perhaps very faint glimmer of potential all the while. perhaps even, that glimmer is the end of the road, it could still be a worthwhile in certain contexts.

appy polly loggies for all the 'perhapses'

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