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In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker
Post Subject: Hm...the NeoHybs...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/8/2019
I do not know what sound Silbatone demonstrated at the show. If it was not “accidently spectacular” (which sometimes happened at the shows) then it is irrelevant what it was. Conceptually Silbatone did not show anything new or stimulating that move the idea/concept anywhere further. The same WE-centric paradigm, badly organized in a final playback, minus the papa Roberts dancing around the stripping poll, dropping his saliva on the fine Munich capers about the better times of audio before audio was not destroyed by the marketing idiots… like Joe Roberts.
There is however one counterseal in my view subject that Silbatone did impark during the last year and I think it was presented in Munich. They have a line of appliers (I do not remember the name) that basically a hybrid with very vintage driver DHT and a SS follower in a back-end. It might not be exactly in the follower configuration but it is just current drive, whatever topology they use.
This is of cause is not a new concept and there was tone of idea like this corroborated over the years. None that no one was truly successful with it. Still, what I wonder is why a company that patronize the compression drivers with slow opening hose, the configuration the yields over 112dB sensitivity, do care about fortifying their amps with currents?
There are plenty of good DHT that can give a few watts, perfectly enough to drive those large horns with minimum currents. If they feel that a few watts are not enough for LF channels, and I would be very supporting this position then why they did not introduce any acoustic system topology that will truly handle bass. All of those WE LF horn solution are for amateurs. I very upset that horn companies do not hear a voice of common sense and keep trying to employ horn at the bottom as the last channel. Now they introduce an amp (I do not think it is DSET though) that meant to drive that last horn at the bottom… a colossal audio-architectural waste if you ask me…
Now, I do not know how well the Silbatone hybrid sounds as an amplifier and this is not a point of my post. In context of the Silbatone system I truly do not see any needs to use such a hybrid topology.
There is another interesting subject in all of it. If they are good with marketing then in response to my critique, they should proclaim something like this: we feel that our new hybrid amps are made in a way that they overperform the classic DHT 2-3 stagers. That would be a very cool position to be and I have no idea if that position has any justification. I have a lot of doubts that it might be true but I would hold my opinion and would not judge upon my doubts. Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site