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Merlin wrote:

... I often note that you describe TAD compression drivers as being not to your taste. Could you tell us which of their range of drive units you have direct experience of and on what horns?

When I experimented with TADs I used 330Hz Tratrix. This subject was discussed somewhere below the following post….

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=6501

It is not that TADs are not to my taste. I am looking for the presents of specific things in the drivers and for an absence of other things. If you read my Macondo notes then you might understand where I am coming from:

http://www.romythecat.com/MacondoAcousticSystem.aspx

It has to be mentioned that when I experimented with drivers, including the TAD, I did not “worked” with most of them and was trying to get from them sound “as is”. Although I do not feel that the things that I am looking in the drivers might be obtained by the driver modification but you never know….  The reason I mention it because somewhere Cessaro said that they used drivers that cost 5000 Euros – TADs cost retail 1/3 of it and 1/6 of it wholesale. So, Cessaro nigh invested into custom TAD drivers, I see no reasons why they should not do it is they are willing to tag this speakers for $230K. If Cessaro use custom TAD drivers then it might means absolutely anything as it not necessary be an assurance then they more advanced then the stock TADs.

What also I have to note in context of the “absence of other things”. I noticed belong myself that I have very bad repulsive memory for drivers’ signature. If I listen a driver and was able to sniff of a specific idiosyncrasy of it’s sound that I feel should not there then in my mind that magnifies that idiosyncrasy and this characteristic screams on me from each recordings. So in many instances I look in the drivers the lack of recognizable announce….

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