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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker
Post Subject: “Play it again, Sam”Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/9/2007
 Jim Smith wrote: |
I've been following this line (mostly the big one) with great interest since it was first mentioned.
It's definitely the most interesting high-efficiency horn line available, as far as I can see.
I've been asked to look at distributing/marketing a few speaker lines to date by various manufacturers, but honestly speaking, nothing seemed really serious.
On the other hand, this is the first one that could be a contender... |
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I might presume that even if you found those speakers as “could be a contender” then you do feel that there is a market in US for the $150,000 horn-loaded loudspeakers. It is very welcoming news by me.
Frankly speaking I would consider that the Cessaro Gammas would be much more interesting product if they where integrated with a especially made for them DSET, as if a person is willing to pay $150,000 for an acoustic system then there are no commercially available worthy sounding amplification to drive that acoustic system. I mean, the 4 horn channels of Gammas should be driven via 4 channels of dedicated single ended amps which were specifically made for those speakers and feature line level crossovers inside the amplifiers. Then the user's responsibility would just be a selection of amplification for low-frequency sections, which would be mostly the subject of the given rooms. I personally think that if Cessaro where integrated with a properly sounding DSET (which would eliminate AMBIGUITY from typically crappy sounding single ended amplifiers) then the Gammas might be a very stable and very worthy “objectionable” commercial product.
Georgians, the Russian Georgians, say that it is impossible to step in the same river twice, however it think it's would be fascinating to see if you, Jim, would be able to pull it again. I think the Cessaro folks shell recognize you as a quite valuable asset to explore US market. If you ever bring the Gammas to CES then let me know, it's might be a good reason to humiliate myself in a plain for those ugly five hours…
BTW, you Jim made a huge mistake that you did not go when I called you for that late nigh session in 2002, when David Karmely turned the Vitavox CN191. It was accidentally phenomenal sound, the never happened since then, nether at CES nor with CN191.
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