In Reply to: Fifty bucks buys a lot of speaker posted by Wayne Parham on January 21, 2003 at 23:54:33:
I had not meant to imply that my 2 Pi's are bad. In fact, they sound far better than I had expected for 50 bucks each. They provide the most articulate (and possibly lowest) bass of all (about a dozen) speakers (up to $3000/pr) I've had in my system. The "excessive forwardness" is only a problem because everything else is so good.When I got home from the office yesterday, my wife had The Propellerheads cranked way up on the 2 Pi's; so her initial reaction seems to have tempered a little.
After several more hours of listening, I am now conviced that the "problem" I hear is indeed in the upper vocal range. Maybe a different or larger inductor than the .47mH Goertz copper foil I used is all I need. I was also thinking of trying the 1038 mated to a Delta 12-LF (in an appropriately larger box) for another experiment.
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