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Post Subject: Is there a baby in that bath water?Posted by Paul S on: 2/12/2007
First, I just have to ask: What are the odds that the same AA guy I just referred to obliquely in my previous post turns up immediately thereafter?
Does this mean they've actually made a go of these small wonders?
Unlike Romy, I have no problem with "yellow drivers", per se, rather it is the fact that people insist on calling them "full-range" that sticks in my craw. And here is this pip-squeak 4" driver touted as God's gift to music, and here are grown men vying to enter a lottery for the chance to buy one at great expense.
And, oh yes, the hyperbole; as though exotic construction will somehow suspend the laws of Nature.
But now I am wondering if any of the drivers in question - forget the enclosures and "FR" business - might actually do some part of the sound spectrum well. Of course this question derives from personal experience at taming Lowthers, and to elaborate, my question is whether targeted listening might indeed reveal something these powerful and carefully-constructed midgets could excell at - say, 1k - 10k Hz. Not that I would want a crossover at 1k, but some of you hornys out there don't blink at this.
In my mind, this situation loops back through and mirrors "the idea of the idea", where someone sticks with a formula because the formula itself seems so attractive, unto an end in itself. In this case I'm curious about the "opposite", if the current made object could be commandeered and put to better use elsehow.
Curiously wondering,
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