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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Vitavox’s S2 Survival Guide.

Post Subject: S2 problems, wish list? how to move forwardPosted by morespeakers2 on: 2/3/2013

Well my intent in the first place was only to discuss and learn about the small details of what makes the S2 and the 288 different mechanically not to discuss system building but it seems you feel I am a little premature to discuss this as you inquired about what I was trying to do, pushing the topic towards system building.

I am not against trying the S2 in the future but I was just curious about the very small details to cause compression drivers make their different sounds before running out and trying any more drivers. I upset a few speaker distributors several years back going on a wild driver goose chase buying and returning drivers and besides testing the patience of distributors it tired me out also. So I made this post as homework before trying anything to learn possibly what direction to even pursue.

I know you have never been entirely happy with the S2 sound and I thought would be useful and interesting to talk about the S2 problems and maybe shed some light on why it sounds the way it does comparing your experiences to a similar but apparently very different sounding 288 driver.

A quote from your post #2 post id # 18360 Radial vs. annular vs. combination phase plugs."So, unless you are a machinist and make your own drivers (if you are then let to be friends)" I would like to be that friend in the future if you would like. Although at the moment I need complete this sort of interesting and minimally barbaric four way all horn pa/high quality playback system for a night club I am working on. If you still care to make a driver from a clean sheet of paper or care to watch me try and maybe you have some ideas on what can be done differently from your experiences with S2.

Post #1 post ID:432 titled "Critique audio performance before acquire new element." Ok, so say we do get that element of a system and critique it fully, how are we supposed to to choose what to move forward with from there?

So this brings me back to where I would hope we talk about to topic my original post in an effort you might share the small details of the S2 you observed that could possibly make it sound "different" to the 288, it really doesn't matter for this S2 discussion if I like or you like the sound but really to get to the bottom of what has been done to mechanically on each that cause differences in the sound so new paths can be charted. Is this not worthwhile to discuss?

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