I think everyone had a good time ---lots of music played a lot of different equipment---and great discussions----Thanks go out to all that brought stuff to play Jim
Jim, Thanx a lot for your hospitality! The chicken really was excellent, and it was great trying out the different full range setups. It was also nice to hear the zen, the pilot and the paramours. Overall, a very pleasant time! -akhilesh
Sounds like fun, what kind of music and on what front end? What was the overall tone of the event? Loud and rocky or Jazzy, roots? These things help us all to participate and learn; albeit vicariously. I used to belong to the Audio Society but they became too stuffy, an entire meeting devoted to sampling interconnects! Jeez. So even though it seems a small gathering the results appear more meaningful. But the backslapping, while gracious, fails to provide any meat and potatoes for us out here! Great pics of the equipment and tech. stuff from resident audio guru Wayne; what were those two ways in the back? The Pi's are full and realistic which is something I have'nt found to be the case with Single drivers, although I have only heard Lowthers. Anyone else see it that way?
Wayne Parham Messages: 18691 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Those two-way speakers are some that Jim has for sale. Check the Swap Meet forum, they're there. This meeting was all single drivers on SET's. Actually, the Pilot is a push-pull, but most of the time we were listening to the Zen or the Paramours. My opinion is that the speakers sounded best on the Paramours 'cause they brought out the bass. But then again, I've heard the Zen's sound better, particularly in the midrange. Just not this time. I thought the Paramours were better all the way around at Jim's house.
I think single driver speakers are great for the dining room, study or office. A good pair like those we heard does the top octave surprisingly well. Not too shabby in the bass either. When I'm visiting folks with single driver speakers, they've always had their speakers connected to amps that generate less than 10 watts, and most times only a watt or two. So everything I've heard from them was at conversation level or maybe a little louder. They sound pretty nice at that volume level.
Yall need to put some 206e s into a good rear loaded horn then use battery powered gainclones. That is very large room filling at concert levels and beyond. ron
Wayne Parham Messages: 18691 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Yeah, I would have liked to have heard that too.
I visited a room with rear-loaded single-driver horns at MAF in Lima, but something was wrong 'cause they didn't sound right. When I heard Jim's little Fostex speakers last summer, I knew that what I'd heard in Lima wasn't indicative of their true nature. Maybe I just happened to hear a selection that wasn't mixed well or the source equipment was off that day or something. It had little bass and absolutely nothing above 10kHz. But even if the box was way wrong it wouldn't have affected the top-octave so something else was amiss. I'd like to hear another example of a back-loaded single-driver. I'd also like to spend some time with a large front-loader like an Oris.
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