Posted by Earl Geddes [ 69.209.130.228 ] on January 18, 2005 at 13:48:26:
In Reply to: Re: Basshorns - Pro and Con posted by Albert AG on January 18, 2005 at 11:44:24:
Bart was a good friend. While he was alive, he used to call me up all the time to talk about cars! Of all things, because I worked at a car company and knew quite a bit about them. All I wanted to talk about was audio, but that was work to him. SO we talked a lot, but not usually about audio!
TAD was my prefered driver - until recently. I wanted to test whether or not the TAD drivers could really out class a lessor expensive set of drivers in a well designed system. A subjective test was run with 16 subjects comparing TAD's to B&C's in identical systems (optimized crossovers of course). The results did not indicate that the TAD's were worth the extra cost. In fact they even indicated the opposite although there was not enough data to be sure of that conclusion.
So now I believe that once one has a truely good system design, the actual components, as long as they are of good quality, don't really enter into the equation.
This is once again not the prevailing philosophy, and until recently was not even mine. But I am not going to ignore the mounds of data that have accumulated indicating otherwise.
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