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| Tang Band 8 vs DavidLouis VX8 bache378 posts08-25-2021 10:51am@mozartfan, i have big experience, with Tang Band, 1808 with Neodim magnet is garbage , they got cone break and big pick 3000-5000Hz. i use a lot and replaced with 2145 regular magnet, 2145 came on production l... | |
| Speakers for 300B --- Klipsch Heresy 4 or other ideas??? Surptised you have not looked at my topics on wide band.Come on, you need to expand your ideas about speakers.The DavisLouis VX8 would be perfect match and just found out the VX 8 is superior to Tang Band's 8's. Much better NeoDymium magnet syste... | |
| Tannoy Stirlings on the way! I purchased a Line Magnetic 211ai from a fellow AGer which delivers 16wpc in triode and 32 wpc in ultralinear. Once received I will get back to you regarding this combination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Well that is a very nice amp. But please fill us in w... | |
| Cheap Amazon Chinese tube pre amps waste of money,. Good tube preamps start at $700 like the jadis clone I bought off ebay yrs ago,, sold it...then my pick is Cayin's preamp at $1400 | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? bass moduale on comp speakers broken,, still getting some bass in the tiny tweets..So I know you guys with better comp speakers are getting the punch I am not hearing.So if anyone sasys,, **wide bands area compromise**, Just send them over to m... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? OK figured out where the static comming from, Wide Band did like the tweet wires on same connect, Ran tweet back to Thor posts, where they belongStaic gone,, Not sure if I can run dual wide abnds per channel,,, maybe static. seems these drivers w... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? WOWWWI am just now listening through my $10 comp speakers,, and I'm telling you, folks, thats **sparkle, shimmerings of silver** just sweetesttt highs you will ever find in any speaker, Diana Krall's voice never ever sounded soooo smooth, so real... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? jtcf1,192 posts08-23-2021 3:46pmHere's an older DIY article that I found interesting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Great find to support the validity of wide banders ability to make music come to life, like magical colors.Geek asks**So how do they sound... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? But for all another speakers based on wideband with no built in amps, we have to add woofer with crosspoint 500-700 HZ ( Metro-001, Tribeca-001 etc)Conclusion-- Wideband driver get good ability just to work like midrange with extended freguancy ... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? But for me, I've found the strengths of fullrangers/widebanders to outweigh the negatives. YMMV though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Honestly,, truthfully, of course its only my opinion..But frankly, I don't recognize any such weaknesses with my wide ban... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? cellcbern OP55 posts05-07-2018 7:36pmHere is a paragraph excerpted from Laurence Borden's July 2014 review of the earlier Bache 001 for Dagago. I think it gets to the heart of the augmented widebander advantage:"In a typical 3-way speaker, the c... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? seanheis1460 posts05-06-2018 2:14pmNot many folks realize this, but you can stick a $50 wide band driver on a 48x60 inch piece of plywood (with just a hole cut for the driver) and get mind blowing good sound from a current source amp...and if yo... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? seikosha210 posts05-06-2018 1:57pmI thought the exact same thing after I converted to single/wideband driver designs I think the main reason is the ragged frequency response and the marketing issues this introduces. Buyers and manufacturers wa... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? It's a complex subject, but the point remains that wide band drivers with all the requisite capacities are exceedingly rare, and pretty well all have shortcomings of some sort.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~Agree there are the good wide bands and then there are... | |
| Why Aren't More Speaker Designers Building Augmented Widebanders? seamless. Yet my new Bache Audio Metro 001 speakers, with a single wideband driver covering the range of 400 hz to 10,000 hz, augmented by a woofer and a super tweeter, sounds different from all of these other speakers. The midrange of the Bache... |