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morespeakers wrote:

If there is any info in this or another post about why the S2 is so much better than the Altec 288c please direct me. If not what makes the S2 drivers so different than a 288C? (I am talking about 288'cs that the 24 ohm diaphragms have been replaced with newer Altec aluminum lower impedance diaphragms which I would imagine by now almost every 288 c has undergone) Both drivers seem to have a very similar looking phase plug looking from the back. Stock diaphragms seem similar too. By the  way my main system has 288c's on 500hz round tractrix poplar wood horn at the moment but always willing to try something different.

I do not know other people who use the Vitavox S2, as least who get any results with S2 that I would consider worth attention.  As far as I know I am the only one “public” person who spared noise/rumors about the “unique” S2 Sound. There is “Unofficial Vitavox Web site” and the folks in there heard something about this driver but it pretty much it on internet. If someone uses the S2 driver advancely then, they have no internet presents.

The S2 vs. 288. This is complicated. To me all Altec are slow, not contrasty and decolorized. They have the “nobility of the tone”, that royal tone of the Prague or Vienna Philharmonics… or that lush wet bass tone of the period instruments. The larger Altec do have some size of the lover frequency harmonics but I doubt that it might be useable in context of 500Hz.

Still, my assessment the S2 might be slightly not objective as I juts have nothing else to like among the compression drives and as a result, I picked the S2 because I hate it mush less then many other drivers. In fact I do not really hate it but rather love it. Still, it does not prevent me clearly see some “issues” with S2 driver. This is why I keep working with it.

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Rgs,
Romy the cat

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