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Post Subject: Re: Why so much surprises about the Monitors?Posted by Wojtek on: 6/12/2006
Roman.
This last "venture " of yours is most welcome .A lot of of the people I know and most of the listeners from audio shows are always surprised when small monitors produce big bass and try to
impress with big sound. I never liked this "pushed " sound and newer considered mini monitors. Acually I like the sound of cheap speakers used with japanesse mid -towers from 80's& 90's. They sound sort of flat and uninvasive and are very listenable in comparison to those "studio " quality monitors. It is stupid but my audio road is mostly full of costly (for me- not in general as I'm quite pure fella) mistakes and more & more often I ask myself why don't I just break up, buy one of those cheap junky sets and simly enjoy the music. Maybe they sound acceptable to me because they are mostly using 3" cone tweeters? I know that J.M Reynaud in his monitors is using this type of tweeters also those bizzare looking Rehdeko speakers don't use a dome tweeters. Have you ever considered them?
Looking at your demands I wonder if one of the so called fullrangers (of which you"re not very fond )augmented with tweeter (a la Macondo )could produce some results. I'm using this arrangement with my faulty horns using fostex 208 sigma and T350 crossed on the slop at 10k.
Also there is variety of small vintage alnico drivers with extended frequency response and decent efficiency.
Good luck with your project ,maybe it'll allow me to use your experience and finally have some decent "moveable ;0) speakers at home. RGRDS. WRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site