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OK, I split the thread: “Best of the HE2006!!!” there extracting the Cogent’s related posts into a separate thread….

Paul S wrote:

The big RCA field coil is the best thing about the Cogent system.  It has great "promise", based on what I heard.

Yes, it “might” be a great promise, but did you ask yourself why it is great promise? I do not mean to undermine what Cogent guys do but I would like the people who argue the Cogent to have some clarity on the subject.

Paul S wrote:

I wondered aloud how it would sound if tuned to just that narrow part of its range, perhaps without the horn.  He said he had wondered that himself; ….

And this is VERY loaded sentiment…. I would have a LOT to talk about it and the Cogent boys should have a LOT of to think about it.

Paul S wrote:

One thing that often hurts this sort of "rennaissance" endeavor, as far as I am concerned, is that the folks most interested are usually "vintage" folks, generally content just finding, acquiring, trading and working with the "special" vintage stuff, happy to simply own, restore or produce variations, or perhaps they might settle on "something" as a "product" and just stay with it, having found a comfortable niche.

Yes, I would not even discuss it. There are plenty of people out there who worship audio archeology and they keep reinstating the Sound that they experienced during those glorious years when they were abused by their local priests. Let pretend that Audio is about Sound but not about use of audio methods to cure own psychological deviations….

Paul S wrote:

I would be very interested to hear someone else's version of that driver.

Actually it is not what I feel. Why someone else's would be more informative then Cogent? What I feel Cogent did was dive into very specific area of drivers making but unfortunately they do not explore the area with necessary level of seriousness (sonick seriousness).  Electromagnets, from what I have seen, have own quite unique sonic structure. I would not argue that it is positive of negative stricture. However, I do insist that anyone who deal with any unique sonic structures should be able top capitalize on them and incorporate the uniqueness of the given topology into objective positive result. Whatever method of topology we use, if we use it properly, we end up wit the very same result. Otherwise we dive into the amateuristic idiocy about”everyone has own taste”…  So, my wish would be not someone else does the Cogent’s drivers but rather the Cogent does whatever they do but under umbrella of more interpretable results.

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