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In the Thread: Lowther Driver
Post Subject: A further discussion of how much trouble you could get intoPosted by Bud on: 8/14/2007
Paul,

Actually they do not sound different. As shown in everyone's tests, those objective measures of performance do not change more than you might expect two different drivers of the same type, manufacturer and production run to sound. What changes are dynamics, the ability to play a greater spread of energy successfully, color retention, focus, or as some have stated, politeness, and low level signal coherence, more tiny information becomes available across the spectrum. But the sonic character remains that of a Lowther. It's just a couple of orders of magnitude more efficient at being a Lowther. The peaks are gone, because everything else is operating at that level, the shoutyness of a DX 4 is gone, because everything has that same dynamic capability and it is no longer different. The EnABL'd DX 4's will actually frighten you with their level of performance, because you have never experienced anything like this, except perhaps right in front of an Electro Voice pro sound reinforcement syetm you did not know was turned on, untiil it lept at you.

You will face issues in integration with your system. The drivers will out accelerate the ribbons, have far more information in the high frequency realm, because they no longer have a phase lag above 1 K and their dynamics will force you to have the woofers treated just to keep up. Without question, the most explosively unchained drivers I have ever treated, when all was completed. And I have succesfully treated more than 300 different drivers in my time with this process.

So, a casual borrowing of the drivers Limono has, after many hours of struggle, finally gotten integrated to his delight, is not going to offer you anything useful. It will take you at least two months to get on top of the extended dynamic performance. Then a while longer to get used to the oceans of information and dynamic head room available. Meanwhile Limmono will be without a sound system. And this after a strong effort to understand and direct what his DX 4's are doing.

I strongly reccomend that you contact Jon Ver Halen and ask him about his experiances with the EnABL'd drivers he has and his confidence in what the process brings to the reproduction of music. Just casually borrowing Limmono's drivers would not be a reccomendation I would make nor have much interest in supporting.

If you truely want more performance from your system, bite the bullet, pluck up your courage and treat your speakers, or pay me to do so, or remain with what you have, which you have said is as good as you have ever heard.

Bud

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