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Post Subject: It's all or nothingPosted by Paul S on: 8/27/2007
Well, Yoshi, at least you're on your way to getting your speakers more of a piece.
I have for some time warned people against a mix-n-match approach with the DEBZs, based on my early experiments with them, and it is true enough to say, I think, that little Lowther does not play well with other children. Also, I would welcome a way to get the best from my Lowthers at 102 dB efficiency, but I haven't figured that out yet, and nothing I've heard so far beckons from any quarter. I agree, there are other drivers better suited to true HE applications.
Basically, the Lowther is the Achilles of drivers.
As for the double back horn, my guess is that it suffers the same sorts of cabinet colorations that all the other plywood backhorn Lowthers have, albeit it may after all better pitch the driver, which that driver can certainly use, since it is otherwise quite up-tilted, to say the least. And not to beat it into the ground, but IMO feeding that driver LF is the first Big Mistake people can make with it.
I hope you remember to use the best you get as a guide rather than making decisions based on bad electricity (like I keep doing...).
Or maybe, for that matter, we ought to go back to systems that hardly reflect bad electricity...
Throw in a Lava Lamp and I'll buy your Reps...
Best regards,
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