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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Living Voice Loudspeaker

Post Subject: Well, being more than a little facetious about the configuration...Posted by cv on: 8/12/2009

Let's just pretend for the moment that you haven't heard the particular TAD driver Kevin is using , and consider the possibility that for at least for some portion of its frequency range, it has a tone similar to the S2 - perhaps it uses an alnico magnet and mylar surround.

Let's also imagine that Kevin is not using your S2. Actually, that's not a huge stretch, as I imagine Macondo is still producing sound happily.

[come on, these days us Brits seem to have less and less we can be proud of, can we at least claim provenance for a pot metal squawker? I know that in the past we have been guilty of charging into places and planting a Union Jack where it don't belong - actually I have a lovely Orwellian image forming involving a Koshka flag hoisted high but I digress]

where was I? Ah yes, let's pretend that his S2 is one of the new production and he has perhaps tweaked it in certain ways.

It looks to me from that he might be using an S2 from around 500Hz or 600Hz up, a snouty S2-wannabe (which perhaps blends better with a new production S2) as a tweeter, and perhaps he's "modulating" the UHF with what looks like an ET703 crossed over very high. Is this a million miles from some prior Macodo configurations?

Ok, couldn't resist being cheeky this morning - I'm well aware of the answer to that question, as the LVs trample all over some key Macondo axioms, and I can't say I would dream of doing things that way for myself, but maybe he has hit on something at least vaguely interesting. That snout will have a very interesting dispersion pattern - I guess it will only beam very high (perhaps equalising the TADs very top end?) and way below that radiate very widely, as a conventional tweeter down low? Again, if it were me, I'd be looking for something that approximated constant dispersion throughout the frequency range, but I too am curious about what they were trying to achieve here.

Anyway, let's see what the full infomercial has to say - there's another 2 "channels" per side to discuss...

cheers

PS I really can't imagine Definitive Audio supplying Srajan with umpteen hookers and a bowl full of coke *and* throwing in a tarted up hummer to host the whole shebang. I don't think the "jourwhorenalism" approach is new - vis KK with Transparent/Wilson/Absolute etc ... or indeed any other industry involving PR and the press...

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