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I suppose I gave up fairly quickly on the 12" WR drivers, for reasons I cited earlier.  But good things I've continued to hear from them, and Haralanov's shared experience, have kept me coming back to the 12", doing a sort of focused listening that I have used for driver development, as opposed to making initial selections.  In this case, I keep in mind the sorts of things I want to hear and I continue to mess with the drivers until I start to hear more of what I want.  Basically, I try to add good things without losing the earlier benefits.  If this sounds simple, it is time consuming, and it is exhausting.  I have gotten some breaks when the sound was good enough to simply enjoy the music; but mostly it has been about keeping track of drivers, changes, situations and sound, not to lose any benefits nor repeat any mistakes.

Finally, while fiddling with the 12" WR in my "stack", and the other drivers adjusted accordingly, I have gotten much better "glimpses" of a sort of presentation that I do not want to give up, and it includes (finally...) proper image size.  Haralanov has gone on at some length about the acoustic effects in other threads, but I have not yet heard for myself all that he describes.  Lately I have been listening mostly to "smaller" works, in order to establish initial voicing, and the 12" defintely makes appropriate "space" in these cases.  Last weekend, I upped the ante with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, and it blew my mind to think of this sound, including the "space" I got, as coming from only one speaker (4 drivers).  Now I have some very nice 10'" drivers that I will not use, including the recently re-built one I referred to in the previous post...

Oh, well... Chalk it up to experience, and add them to the pile...

Paul S

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