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In the Thread: High End 2012 in Germany

Post Subject: MecenasPosted by Jorge on: 5/9/2012

Well maybe the rich Korean fellow just wants to advance the knowledge of audio as he knows it, by droping a bunch of cash at it, which never hurts!
They claim that Silabtone will sound like WE...pf I read somehwere that they use Amorphous cores and silver windings and that is the only way to get close, not better, to the original sound of the WE amplifiers, which makes think, what were the original WE amps made of then? And what makes them so hard to duplicate, is it just the badge, the fashion, the aging of the parts:
It seems that the GIP 555 does better the original WE 555, as accepted by the poeple that use the WE 15A, also the Italian reproductions made by Aldo seem to be at least as nice as the original WE 15A, and he also makes some great vintage looking amps and preamps based on what sounds good from the original WE designs and getting rid of the extra baggage, which seems a good idea!

What is very interesting is the fact that the WE 15A is supposed to be a "Full Range Horn" they claim it goes from 90 hz to 7khz, but getting closer to the data it is more like 100 hz to 3 khz, which sounds more terrestrial, they have a must tweeter going in from soemwhere between 4 khz to 5 khz, and sub woofer just filling in, it seems open baffle sounds better with that horn. I havent heard the system myself yet, but have heard a lot of horns, even compression drivers doing 100 hz up to 15 khz and, while it is very nice, it is not as magical as all the claims. Size does matter and I guess the huge horns will have something to say...

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