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In the Thread: Good commercial speakers
Post Subject: Praying in front of speakers instead of listeningPosted by Romy the Cat on: 9/13/2007
 morricab wrote:
Used Wilson X1 Grand SLAMM. Not the best speaker but dynamic like a horn and less colored than most horns. Use with good tube amps and it makes a superb sound (with 95db/watt sensitivity and an easy load 30 watts is probably sufficient in all but a large room). For a "conventional" box speaker I haven't heard anything better.
Yep, the Grand SLAMM would do it. What I always would like to do but never had a change is to play with the Grand SLAMM’s angle-able head with HF channels. David Wilson promotes it as “great accomplishment” but I see it as a great blinder. There is no need for it, not to mention that there is some harm from it. A properly set Grand SLAMM, when it sounds OK has incredibly narrow zone where the HF drivers are aligned. Moving a head for 1” might throw sound into disarray. I presume that with absolutely horizontal axes of the Grand SLAMM this ultras-narrow listening zone should not be there. I unfortunately had no chance to play with it myself as whoever I knew who had the Grand SLAMM were praying in front of them instead of listening to them.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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