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hello kids,

a few weeks ago i started my hunt for a pair of speakers....i've been attached to my big system with a pair of headphones for the past year and feel its time to get some speakers to listen to music with (plus, i think my ears are now 1/4" closer to my skull).

Koshka Sr. suggested some vintage speakers for around 700 bucks or so....i have little clue about vintage stuff, but i'm slowly learning...

after spending the last year thinking about what i'm looking for, i have a few starting points: 96+ or so sensitivity with 16+ohm arrangements AND correct phase alignments.  i have no idea if i'm capable of making such a thing but i do think that no commercial offerings can do this.  i don't mind losing some of the deeper bass, but the midbass region has to be preserved as much as possible.

right now i'm entertaining these two ideas:

- rebuilding an altec A7 with tractrix horns and supplementing the upper registers with some sort of modern driver; from hearing a similar system and depending on how i arrange the xover, the bass below 80hz or so will be severely compromised.

- building an open baffle system around an 8 or 10" PHL driver, some larger sealed bass enclosure and perhaps a ribbon based tweeter for supplementation; i considered the Lowther drivers for midrange, but i have no idea how well they could work in such an application.  this might give me all kinds of problems with alignments and achieving 1st order slopes, but it may have potential.

any suggestions/abuse would be greatly appreciated.

have at it,
Chirag

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