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Post Subject: A vicinity where I would just start….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/11/2010

Thanks, msaudio, for sharing your experience with Aura and Hartley. I do not have Hartleyes. I heard them I think twice but person the people did not try to get out of their playback anything that I care, so it is hard to say anything. In contrary I do like Aura. It has the only (at least in past) overhand motor among all 18 inchers, I like the Aura cone (old one) and I like the suspension. I heard Aura a few times and I never was completely happy with what I heard. People (Wilson and others) used 1808 in box-reflex application but it is a cheap cheating in my view and even in ported ULF application it was “impressive: but it was very far from the sound that I am looking for. Years back I build a big ugly box for one 1808 and experimented with ULF resonator - I remember that I liked it but it was perhaps 8 years back and I had very different demands and reference. So, I do not know if I go for the dedicated LF channels and if I do then I do not know if I use Aura eventually. Still, if I go there then I think Aura will be in the top of my aim.

Jessie, thanks for the tips. I know all those calculations but I always afraid them as all those calculations are very silent to me about sound. I need to find somebody who worked a lot with Aura and who tell me what happen with Aura as box grows. I feel that 2.4 cu ft. that you end up would be too small for this driver and msaudio 23 cu ft is vicinity where I would just start. I might be wrong of cause…

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