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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker
Post Subject: TAD or not to TAD, it is not the my opinion maters…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/29/2008

Well, it is certainly not our objectives to define were one or another driver, in this case TADs, would punch up in regards to other drivers. I presume that any driver if a sufficient amount of time, effort and love invested might blossom with different sound then it does out of it’s box.

I hardly see point and take with a great grain of salt in internet collaborations on the subject what “driver is better”. Over internet we have no ability to objectively recognize each other reference points and the ability to recognize other objectives. Without it - many of our judgments not really useful for others. I pretty much abandoned my interest about compression drivers since 2002 when I stated to use S2. I would not necessary feel that it is “better” (it is better on my own scale that might be irrelevant to others) but I invested a lot of time and self-edition how to use this diver and what S2 does in my playback now it very different what it did in 2002. It is possible that if I spent 6 years with some kind of TADs then I would be able to take it what I would like it to do. If there are any serious S2 users out there then feel free to drop in – I am sure I can demonstrate some results with S2 that are fan from what expected from S2 diver.

Interesting that despite that I do not use any other drivers since 2002 but I am always looking for different drivers as some kind of inspiration. The sound of compression drivers is in many in instances is an accidental mystery – so in my imagination there is always some kind “more interesting driver”. Still, although I try to have very open mind to other drivers I most likely would not change anything in Macondo’s drivers until I experience the BLISS from other drivers or until I recognize some kind of fault of S2 driver. The bliss was something how I discovered the S2, thanks to David Karmely…

So, in the end it is not important what driver would it be if a person knows what he needs to accomplish with Sound. The demands for specific sonic attributes would naturally lead a person to one or another direction from one to another driver…. It very much might be the TADs. Until an experienced in TADs user with evolved reference objectives sit with me in the same room and demonstrate to me his evolved results I do not think I will change my opinion about the TAD compression drivers.  It is not the my opinion maters…

The caT

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