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In Reply to: Re: Do You Believe The Price Simply Equals The Sum Of The Prices Of The Parts Involved? posted by john curl on October 28, 2006 at 12:30:58:
"Now, if you can beat the price of 2 buck Chuck and still beat a superior tasting bottle of wine, I would take you seriously."I might...by growing my own grapes. I've got three acres and haven't planted anything. But...there's still about 40 cases of mostly vintage Bordeaux from 90, 89, 88, and some 86s and 95s, in my cellar so I'm hardly hurting for great wine to drink.
Europe always charged very high prices for whatever they made. Having lived there for a couple of years, I can tell you from first hand experience, most of what Europe makes is crap. Vifa/Peerless/Tymphany make outstanding quality speakers (Ken Kantor wouldn't be associated with anything less) but they are not worth twice the price of Tang Band drivers which measure almost identically and can handle 50% more power. Personally, if I really liked it, I would have no qualms about building it myself but I haven't heard it and I suspect from my experience with other speakers using small drivers, this one will also not have acceptable lateral high frequency dispersion. BTW, I could easily afford them from RR if I really wanted them. I'd sooner build around the Bohlender Graebener 75" planar drivers and NHT 1259s if I wanted line source high fidelity speakers. It takes enormous amplifier power to get a lot of bass out of a collection of small drivers and 50 might not be enough. They may have the radiating surface of a 16" woofer and they may be equalizable to 25 hz but they only have an Xmax of 0.5 mm. Not good. A really good 12" woofer has an Xmax of 10 to 15 mm so it can move a lot more air and still keep its VC well within the most linear region of the magnetic field. If I get the chance I'll listen to it...but I'm not going out of my way to find it. I might be mistaken but it looks like RR has what amounts to a mail order operation out of a garage type workshop anyway.
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- Re: Do You Believe The Price Simply Equals The Sum Of The Prices Of The Parts Involved? - Soundmind 13:37:13 10/28/06 (1)
- Re: Do You Believe The Price Simply Equals The Sum Of The Prices Of The Parts Involved? - morricab 07:26:36 11/03/06 (0)
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