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Robert,

I think you completely misunderstood my comment and my complain about the high price of the Feastrex drivers.  Chris Widmer does not understand it as well not to mention that his attempt to explain the high price of Feastrex sound too bogus.  Mass production of permendur cost nothing and to make this driver cost nothing – two year ago they sold it for $1000, not the sell it for $40.000 – what, the turning permendur become 40 time more expletive? Anyhow, let to be adult about it – there is NOTHING expensive in driver’s mass production if the production is well organized.

I still do not want people to feel that I knocking off Feastrex just because they are expensive. I actually do not care how expensive they are – I more interested about sonic benefits the drivers provide. There is a big “however” in all of it.

If you read carefully the there about Lamm ML3

http://www.romythecat.com/GetPost.aspx?PostID=3475

then you might understand that I discard this SET amplifier not because it cost $150K but because for this a if amount of money the ML3’s SET topology become FUNDAMENTALLY FAILED. With any investment larger then let say $10K a SET designer begin to fight with specific limitation of SET topology that might be overridden with huge success and huge supplementary benefits of DSET topology. I feel that it is absolutely ridicules to pursue $150K SET of the very same ML3 amp in DSET configuration would cost 3 times lees and will perform contestably better then a full ML3 SET. So, the price in this case is not the cost itself but rather a moderating tool. It is like being a boxer - you might be a king in 140 pounds range but in 250 pound you are not even competitive – it is a whole different league. People are bitching to me that I do not “support” the ML3 but they just use ass instead of brain or common sense when they think about audio.

The very same is with Feastrex. Let even pretend that Feastrex is radically expensive, the ingredients not delivered by UPS and immensely difficult to get -let say the Feastrex used for their cones the toilet paper that was used already by Maria Callas. So, the par of Feastrex does cost $40K, so what?

With a desire to damp in acoustic system $40K juts for a cost of drivers a person shell be absolutely fool with stay with single driver topology. The single drivers are fine when a person use a little suffocated SET amp, a back loaded single driver, a keyboard to write  how close the virtual Patricia barber to his laps and the desire on Weekends nights do not do not smoke marihuana or drink vodka  but to listed some jazz by dripping very little audio blood. There is nothing wrong with it but this scenario fulfills the application of singe drivers. If the person willing to spend his time, money and have more objectives then juts “piano in the right and the girt on the left” then she/he is way beyond the single driver capacities. To spending $40K for let it be even good single-driver loudspeaker is a summing of absurdity in my view.

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