RE: Just try

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RE: Just try

Posted by cawson@onetel.com (A) on March 24, 2024 at 15:07:47

In Reply to: RE: Just try posted by John Elison on March 24, 2024 at 11:03:41:

It seemed fairly obvious that the OP was taking about drivers that would normally be installed in a cabinet - so not a planar.

Planars don't need a cabinets, but are far more room dependent than other speaker types. I was hoping to improve on my 17-year old horn speakers by moving to electrostatics, so I bought (after a great showroom demo and rave reviews) a pair of GDP 18K electrostatics, but sadly they didn't like my room's characteristics. They had to be sold and I kept the old horns until I found better ones used, and more recently the latest model.

Reason for els (and probably Maggies too) sounding bad in my room - they need a wall behind them to take advantage of the 50% of their energy that's projected backwards. In my room this wall is 12 ft behind one and 15 ft behind the other and the "wall" is floor-to-ceiling glass. Maggies, Martin Logans, etc no good there at all.

Could you say what your Maggies would sound like without their frames!

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Topic - Better drivers and no cabinet. - Bill the K 09:07:52 03/24/24 (16)

RE: Better drivers and no cabinet. - tomservo 10:45:45 03/26/24 (0)

Dipole cancellation - Brian H P 15:34:01 03/25/24 (4)

RE: Dipole cancellation - John Elison 12:02:27 03/26/24 (2)

How Maggies overcome it - Brian H P 14:02:26 03/26/24 (1)

Don't forget Atkinson's comments - E-Stat 07:17:19 03/27/24 (0)

RE: Dipole cancellation - Inmate51 16:38:33 03/25/24 (0)

Just try - cawson@onetel.com 10:31:17 03/24/24 (7)

RE: Just try - John Elison 11:03:41 03/24/24 (6)

RE: Just try - cawson@onetel.com 15:07:47 03/24/24 (0)

RE: Just try - Freo-1 13:42:15 03/24/24 (4)

Did you not try padding down the tweeter a bit with the normally-supplied resistors (or others)? - MWE 19:36:18 04/05/24 (1)

Tried a few things...No joy - Freo-1 16:23:13 04/06/24 (0)

Great speakers. - G Squared 14:45:24 03/24/24 (1)

RE: Great speakers. - hahax@verizon.net 19:43:15 03/24/24 (0)

RE: Better drivers and no cabinet. - chocolate_lover 09:56:10 03/24/24 (1)

RE: Better drivers and no cabinet. - Bill the K 10:32:43 03/24/24 (0)

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RE: Just try - cawson@onetel.com 15:07:47 03/24/24 (0)

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