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CO wrote:

May i ask if you have ever played with the Le Cleach flares and how you find them? They were created to reduce reflections directly back into the horn. Only problem is they are very large because of this....

Nope. I never had them. The Le Cleach curve should work fine. I do not know how about the reflections directly back into the horn, I feel it is slightly bogus, but in way the Le Cleach curve is close to the tratrix and do not have the excessive “horn hanging” of the constantly explanation horn. It is very important for MF drivers.

CO wrote:

could you still comment on the sound difference between neodynium and ceramic based drivers.

Ceramic of ferrite magnets of compressions drivers are fine but ONLY if your driver do not do any MF or HF. At higher frequencies the Ceramic mangers are completely usable as they make a driver to sound very monochromic with reduced transient characteristics. Still for LF transducers, presumably none-compressive the ceramic mangers do perfectly fine. I have mode difficulties to say what happen with neodymium drivers. Unquestionably the neodymium is more superior magnet material and it dose work very nice with LF drivers (look the Aura’s Motors and the similar…) however I have no idea how neodymium “sounds” at HF. The only neodymium HF drivers that I had were TADs. TADs sound very idiosyncratic with their typical syntactic “caramelness”, however I do not think that it due to the neodymium but rather due to the moronic beryllium cone and wrong suspensions type. In other words I do not have any methodologically clear experience with neodymium at HF drivers. I presume the neodymium should be fine if everything else is properly done…  Still, in order to express my opinioned, full of myself, views I need to hear the neodymium compression driver under a condition that it was not made by TAD….

Rgs,
Romy

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