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In the Thread: Lowther Driver
Post Subject: A baby thrown out with bath water?Posted by yoshi on: 8/19/2007
 Wojtek wrote:

It should not be a problem for you to borrow one of those plastic 150-200 Hz horns for your REPS .


I heard it a couple of times in a different settings several years ago.  Although I was interested in the application at that time, never thought of using it myself due to the space limitations, and I was more or less happy with what I had.

 Wojtek wrote:

I can imagine that other owners/users of Reps would be horryfied by the way you're using this driver .


I know!!  I also know how other owners use Lowther type drivers too though.  There's a historical (personal) context to how I came to what I have now.  Mine started out as Lamhorn at around year 2000.  I couldn't take the peak and ended up putting Reps in Medallion cabinet and replacing (adding) over 1000 with compression driver/horn-Ribbon tweeter combination using DSP.  I heard pretty much all commercially available Lowther systems at that time, but never was satisfied with the way they were dealing with the peak.  AER wasn't available yet then (if it was, my pass might have been slightly different).  I was happy with this combination while my music was pretty much all jazz.  Then everything begun to fell apart when I started listening to orchestral music.  There was also an encounter with an unknown specie's super vehicle (Romy's system).  I came to the current set up several months ago and have been working on it since then.

Paul, yes, I'm very familiar with Horning systems and, yes, the bass is quite discontinuous from the rest of the system.  "What is RIGHT with this driver?"  I'm afraid I threw out the baby with the bath water.

Yoshi

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