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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Love at first listenPosted by Antonio J. on: 12/2/2007
 drdna wrote:
While I think a resonating speaker can add its own musicality to a reproduction, it is clearly adding harmonic distortion, etc.  It may be pleasant, but you run the risk of needing differently tuned speakers for each type of music, maybe?  I am always cautious about "love at first listen" since usually it is just a novel type of distortion my ear hasn't been accustomed to yet.  This is how most audiophiles end up running from one new product to the next.


Very true. That's why I agree with Romy that to avoid going nuts trading components, one should know first what's wrong with his current set-up and must have clear objectives -about the music, the sound, the sounds, depending on personal evaluation status- which the new component should meet.
The "problem" with this approach is that most of us don't have the skills, nor the experience, to know what's wrong and even less to recognise a component that gives exactly what we need, without compromising other performance features. Then we're "sold" to be impressed for anything sounding just different. Moreover not all of us listen to the same kind of complex and exigent music all the time. What is the only acceptable result for one, could be an overkilling act for others, or even something that has more inconvenients than advantages.
 
IMHO the "injection for oops" is the result of a very fine-tuned judgement to achieve very specific objectives. I believe that in Romy's case he knows why, what for and how, but without his kind of background and goals, most of us would add only pleasant colorations that would result annoying after some time. I wish I could visit Romy and hear why his injection channel is necessary or just preferrable into his system. I think that only when exposed to "right" -understood as closer to own's perception of perfection- reproduction is when we learn really our own way to go. People who has a criterion can try to get his objective mostly as a trial-error process, but if you don't have an ideal, or don't have the resources for that -usually expensive and time consuming- trial and error process, finding a good result is more a matter of good luck than an elaborated outcome.
I wonder if those NXT drivers just sound different and hence their appeal at first or short term use. The sort of "wonderful sound" that you perceive when first exposed to planars, before realising about their shortcomings. Or if they really are a "new recipe for satisfaction". Who knows.

rgrds.

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