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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
Posts 10,327
Joined on 05-28-2004
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Better or worse is not about me.
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Andrey, I have seen the ad you have mentioned. A few things. Facebook is notorious for supporting fraudulent ads. I personally bought many things based upon Facebook ads, mostly stuff for kids, and never was receiving exactly what the ad promised. So, be careful with that.
Regarding, the rest. I do not know the quality of current Vitavox production. I do not know if they use the same magnets as they did in 60s and if they use the same paper for woofers. I am not necessary can accuse them in anything sinister, but many of the materials might not be available anymore. I did use their contemporary production diaphragms but it was 25 years ago. Only God knows what they do now so I truly do not know how good they are today.
Regarding the S2 driver. There is a thread about it at this site where I beat this subject to death. I would not go lower then 500 HZ with second order. You can get a little lower in a large horn. But you do not need my recommendation you can clearly hear it. The lower you go the more compression you will have and if your horn is too small for a given cut-off frequency then you will have honk.
Comparing S2 to another drivers is not good idea generaly. You see, the best driver is not a driver that some kind of moron told you over internet. The best driver is the one with which a person work for a long time, and made it sound and text of his own reference points, expectations, and objectives. There are many drivers, with which you can get good sound if you apply some labor of love. S2 certainly very different driver from TADs. I have very negative feelings about TADs, and I don't like whatever they do. Thier compression driver sound extremely synthetic to me. In the past I had some, experimented with them, not a lot, but enough to hit them. Then I heard them many times in context of very different installations, and each time I heard exactly why I hate them in my hands. I do not say that some drivers can produce natural sounds and some of the drivers produce non-natural sounds. However, TADs, for whatever reason produce very non natural sounds and in each tone they produce somehow they factor in an incredible efforts to produce it. It comes out as some kind of mechanical approximation of sounds. It is like you are trying to draw a picture this year pencil, on the paper which has a space grid. The drawing is done, but it is all around the grid, and the grid lines still there as some kind of crutches of your efforts.
One way or other, I do not like to issue any recommendations. I do it, mainly for the people that I know, whom I understand and know the objectives, the reference points, the efforts which has been spent, the amplification they use and many other factors. However, one thing I need to warn you that in order to get the best out of S2 driver you would need an additional twitter. It is not because as two cannot go all the way up but because when it does it, it has some problems.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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