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In the Thread: Ultimate MF compression driver?
Post Subject: CellulosePosted by Paul S on: 7/3/2011
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Yes, the tamed beast is an oxi-moron.  I thought of my 808s as ragged, rough (grainy) and spitty, while the S2 was also ragged/uneven, but the roughness was more like the sound of a metal zipper.  Anyway, I never heard either of these stock drivers make nice with complex music.  Doping and bedding the surrounds "helped" the 808s some, but it also homogenized the remaining sound.  Of course, I would approach all this differently now...

Back to the driver I just tossed in the ring, to see the wide variety of R's drivers, it appears that he accepts some self-sound as long as it is his idea of natural and musical, like an instrument, and from his own descriptions I gather he leans +/- toward high-end vintage sound, or he perceives that as his audience/market.

As for the cellulose (paper) itself, I am not at all sure that what works/happens in a direct radiator works/happens as well in a compression driver, and particularly in the case of the "variegated" homemade paper I have seen used for his direct radiators.  I guess any such problems would happen by degrees, and I suppose it is possible that someone might actually develop "suitable" paper after years of effing with it.  On the one hand, it seems like a reach; on the other hand, why even finish it, let alone sell it, unless it does some things very well?  After all, it's not his first trip around the block.

I think O.R. may fish for links, to check them out and sometimes respond, and now there is an attractive "header", so, maybe we'll be set straight on this.

Best regards
Paul

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