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Ronnie wrote:

"Still, even if I knew that you use very poor amps I would hardly anticipate that it should be as bad as you descried" -I could imagine one of them being faulty to this degree but not all three, and not at ALL sound levels! Those amps really drove me nuts. Picture someone trying to squeeze good sound out of speakers using a slightly chopped-off signal! Perhaps it was good practice in some Karate Kid kind of way. ;-) Now I'm sure longing for the 6 OPTs I ordered in April!

The Fane8M driver are highly inductive load, still you should not have problems to the degree that you described. A SS PP A/B should have a lot of compression on your horns, shell has practically no colors on your horn, but it should not distort.  If I had the same problems with distortions, the problems that rise to the point of being “alien sounds” then I would run the channel from a generator’s sweep to see what kind resonances or any other defects the driver might have. In fact I run of generator sweep all my drives, and particularly the compression drivers, to see initially what they do.

Anyhow, I have no problems you make a little blinder, it is perfectly fine, we all do them but what I do have problem with your purely methodological inaccuracy. If you remember I was keep asking you how the horn sounded driven full-range from a single amplifier without anything else attached. Are you saying that over the course of a few month (!!!) you never connected your upperbass horn (that has the same sensitivity as you MF driver) to your MF amplifiers?  How would it be possible?

Hold on, hold on… would it mean that your use the same type SS receiver for MF channels as well? If so, then you never experienced your horns at all. It is ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITIVE to drive 109dB sensitive installation with SS A/B amplification. A high sensitively speakers are VERY different way of dealing with amplifiers….

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