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In the Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents....
Post Subject: Not the SamePosted by Paul S on: 11/5/2008
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I found the frequently-power-starved Sound Lab A1s and A3s to be audibly more amp-connected than some other speakers, including some that do not get as loud in absolute terms. Although horns -generally speaking - may "need" SET to get free, one can always just go ahead and use SETs with them. Which amps would you say set Sound Lab A1s free? I hope SL's made progress over the years since I heard them, including finding amp pairings that "work" to really deliver their wares' promise.
No reason other than the odds to doubt TA products, although their own applications - as they describe them - suggest +/- the usual criteria and methods of "evaluation". Frankly, that (sub-)woofer looks too good to be true! No doubt it's for born-to-wealth punters only? And what kind of amp would that take?!?
As for planars, I have written elsewhere that the best sound reproduction I EVER heard was from Mark Levinson's stacked modified Quad 57s playing a live recording of a guitar player (playing Bach) who was wandering the hi-fi show that same day. But the big Sound Labs made much louder and more dynamic sound with a much wider range of music (albeit with the previously-mentioned shortcomings).
As an OB user, I can live with di-poles, per se. But lots of the better HF ribbons, anyway, are closed in back; they aren't all di-poles, functionally.
Best regards,
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