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In the Thread: Remedies the Beauty
Post Subject: Repeating Accidental Success?Posted by Paul S on: 10/25/2022
No idea how one blends in a random passive radiator, and I gave up on it after a year or two, many years ago. But if you can put your ear to the passive radiator and hear it plays up into the midrange, then you will probably want to use something with tone. I imagine there is the provervbial synergy between the particular version of the 10" Tannoy Red and the particular 10" Scanspeak, also the boxes that Romy happened to have on hand when he concocted the original speakers in question. So, are others looking for this same synergy, or a synergy of their own device? As far as using "similar-but different" drivers, the larger Tannoys do have a more "full" lower-mid sound than the smaller ones, for better or for worse, but they also, obviously, have a bigger jump from the cone fundamentals to the tweeter, as well, and the various drivers do sound different, one from the other.
It seems from following these threads that no one so far has been content to stay focused on recreating the accidental success of the original Dunnoy/Dannoy. Is this because no one can actually recreate the original, or is it because everyone has issues with these speakers that they'd prefer to improve on? For instance, don't we always say that one wants 20 dB headroom. Does this mean people are happy listening at 70 dB, or does it mean that something about the Danoy "offsets" the need for headroom? I still can't figure out how you can push the Red down to 50Hz with the original configuration and also get the headroom? While multiple Red drivers sans tweeters "sounds logical", it would take some work to avoid serious combing.
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