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Post Subject: Bad Shopping (sour grapes)...Posted by Paul S on: 10/30/2008
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LOTs of time pretty much wasted lately, looking at "HE" direct-radiator drivers that are actually only HE at their uppermost frequencies, with diving responses and large-to-huge power "ratings" that allow the "pros" to simply turn up the heat to get anything approaching LF via ANY means. Also, and at least as annoying, even smaller upper bass/mid drivers have the same rising-with frequency curves that make their "efficiency ratings" silly, at least in practical terms, or when viewed in the context of HE and/or the putative useage of the driver in question. And it looks like the adoption of the stupid "piston"/giant-X-max concept is about total, with "old-style drivers being discontinued right and left.
I have said often enough that I would prefer to use a 10" driver for MF, but the Lowther, with all its warts, is the only thing I have been able to work into something ending up 97 dB. NOw, looking to up the efficiency ante, Are TRUE HE drivers really so rare?
Is a dearth of HE direct-radiator drivers going to force me back into giant horns?
Isn't it enough that I have to make my own speakers? Do I have to start making my own damn drivers, too?
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