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Romy the Cat


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Post #: 26
Post ID: 18774
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RCA MI-1428B vs Vitavox S2
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I have a guy visited me today who have high-voltage version of RCA 1428. I asked him to provide is feedback what in his view difference sonic between his 1428 and my S2 driver. Of course it might be large difference in the way how we use our drivers. For instants the only one time I hear it was in the home of an unspeakable idiot Jonathan Weiss who with his barbarian hands and brains vandalizes whatever he touches. I have no reasons to suspect that my today visitor misuse his 1428 driver. He has multi-amped multi-way horns with his own amps. I do not know how his installation sounds (he is not from US) but his subjective feedback I find interesting and turn out to be exactly what I expected.

He feels that 1428 smoother sounding driver with more mellow and more placid response to dynamic, contrast and to colors. S2 is slightly more responsive to contrast, more aggressive, more transient and more granular.  It pretty much correlates with what I heard and that brings a question: why the people who use 1428 drive this driver with more idle amps? Does this expressive sluggishness is the part of the “phenolic sound” that I do not like in many vintage drivers of it is inability of the drivers user to make the drivers to give the sound that they have in their minds?

I do not feel that S2 is better driver then 1428 or vise versa, I just expose what my visitors said today and typing is while he is listening my Bruckner….


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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  »  New  Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems..  A link to another thread....  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     120  637991  07-29-2007
  »  New  Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO..  Clever DIY going on where?...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     97  1160519  11-19-2007
  »  New  45Hz Bass Horn..  Can We Ever be Saved From Ourselves?...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     23  306292  09-19-2006
  »  New  About bass horns by Johan Dreyer..  There are lowest bass horns and there are not lowest b...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     5  91339  02-11-2008
  »  New  Chinese upperbass horn...  Some sensibility about bass reproduction...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     35  359622  08-08-2005
  »  New  Barn Conversion - James' Project..  The vintage vs. contemporary compression driver....  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     28  353253  02-04-2007
  »  New  Midbass Horns and Real Estate...  Just a youtube video......  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     247  2062277  07-26-2009
  »  New  RCA driver made in China..  About the serious Chinese High-End...  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     2  39905  08-26-2009
  »  New  A new CES 2010 loudspeaker?..  Good idea, indeed......  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     15  166478  01-13-2010
  »  New  Bookshelf Horns..  How the menacingly-empty idiots design audio....  Horn-Loaded Speakers Forum     3  46463  03-17-2010
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