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Post Subject: The wrong tilt made wrong-er?Posted by Paul S on: 3/27/2008
People never seem to run out of ideas to "improve" the stock Lowther, do they? Ironically, the newer stock Lowthers feature a rolled-edge whizzer that is supposed to be there specifically to reduce "shout" compared to the older/outgoing model that had a straight-edged whizzer. I had older "straight-edged" Lowthers, and the newer one are somewhat of an improvement in that area, IMO. And now somebody's basically taken a step backwards by cutting off the rolled whizzer edge with pinking shears? Did the originator have any special reasons for adopting this radical procedure or did he just do it and then claim the improvements?
Whatever anyone does, IMO it would be best to avoid exacerbating the already-problematic stock frequency "spikes" at 2.4k Hz and 8k Hz, and I certainly don't think the stock unit needs further up-tilting. Sure, I like the "immediacy", too, but that spiked and up-tilted response does more than just bestow a sense of immediacy, and most of the rest of what it does is bad for music, to my ears.
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