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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Vitavox S2 driver made in china
Post Subject: ... interesting to learn what market Mike'll target with his new VitavoxPosted by Romy the Cat on: 3/29/2007
 coops wrote:
If you are correct there should me a large gap in the market for any company that really cares about sound. Returning to the topic of the thread, have you noticed wide discrepancies in the 'sound' of S2 drivers even between drivers manufactured within a short period of each other? I can understand how the driver specs may have changed over time and how this would affect the sound, correct me if I am wrong but weren't S2's primarily made for large cinema/pa applications.
Yes, all S2s that I have seen sound slightly different, still preserving the brand sound but still not identical. I did not make correlations between the driver’s manufactures period (serial numbers) and sound. They are 50 years old drivers and they perfectly within their birthrights to sound very unevenly. Do not forgers the S2 was not initially desired to have “firm, default “ Sound as Vitavox made them to have the easy replaceable “on the fields” cones - the thing that always (???) introduces a lot of ambiguoity to the sonic results.

I do not thing that drivers specs were intentionally changed over time and I think it was a normal drift of the production specs. Yes, the S2 was made for sound reinforcement applications. They defiantly way not up to the demands of the home near-field playbacks not to mention that in 50s the perception of “better sound” was at commercials level way more liberal then what we have today. BTW, this is one of the points why it would be interesting to learn what market Mike will target with his new driver. If you will shot for pro installations (that I doubt) then whatever the S2 does “as is” is fine and I wish to Mike a luck to get that Harman International’s phone call....(That I doubt as well). If he thinks to supply the extremely limited demands of the audio horn freaks like me, then it would be very nice if he do for something better then what Vitavox S2 use to be.

Rgs, the Cat

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