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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: A Moscow setup with Horns/Lowther

Post Subject: No one knows anything….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/15/2011

Haralanov,

I do not think that the “information” that you found is indicative of anything. If they changed coils and diaphragms on their LOMO drivers (and I presume that if they change the diaphragms then they did not keep the LOMO original suspension) then those LOMO driver have absolutely no connection to the sound of the original 2A-9 and they are in fact this own new custom drivers. They might sound as absolutely anything.
The comment that this “Yras” made do not say anything in my view about the LOMO drivers but rather about the sound that they were getting from Gotos: chilly and not interesting.

Here is a few factors need to be consider. First: Russians high-end audio people, even those who fancy themselves the most advanced, listed unspeakably crappy music and their understanding of listening cultural is mostly very barbaric. Among the people who are active on-line I would name no more then 3-5 people over the whole contrary who have cultural capacity to express thier subjective listening analyses about audio that worth paying attention. So, whoever they say I uselessly do not invest much credibility. Second: We have absolutely no idea if the midbass horns with Goto drivers that were used before were used at their best. I do not have knowledge about the SG146LD drivers and I do not know how they might be cooked in order to make them to taste “chilly”. With the driver I do know based upon the reported I might guess what might be reason for it but if I do not know the driver then all bets are off.

In the end I, in contrary to you, do not feel that moving for this Russian guy from SG146LD to customized LOMO as direct radiator is an even worth attention. If would be worth attention is the owner would clearly express what was his dissatisfaction with older configuration, what he was about to do with it. What he did and what was the results. Unfortunately most of audio people do not equipped or not accustom to do it. They just make pictures that in my mind are an indication that they are more involved in external, the façade aspect of audio.

We see, the experience that this guy went by trying the large compression drivers in the large midbass horns and then with shallow horn and quartet of 15” drivers was VERY valuable. If we is willing to make the picture of this playback and expose his listening room to public then his pictures are irrelevant crap until one hear what is in the head of the playback owner and what motivations, objectives and methods he used.
So, he went from one topology to another, something does suggest me that in 6 month you will see another change of the playback in this guy’s listening room.

The Cat

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