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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The 5-ways from Germany.
Post Subject: Goto vs S2Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/10/2018
I would like to pass my observation about the whole notion of Goto vs S2. Some might feel that that my observations would be less relevant as I personally did not experiment with Goto drivers. So, there is no reason for you to read further. I head a few Goto installations and I have quite good experience to deal with Goto sound vicariously. I spoke with a number of very knowledgeable Goto users about Goto, including Reinhard , the gentleman who owns or co-own the playback under discussion of this thread. I do hear well what those people say. I also dealt a numbers of idiots Goto users and I do have a very good truck to get from them the information that I need and the fools did not even understand what was going on. Still, I do not have my personal experience with Goto (in my playback) and this should be taken under consideration. 
 
I meant to replay about it to Josh after his comments about Goto superior tonal quality but something made me not to do it. The truth to be told (as I see it) that Goto is not really a tonal driver and this very much made it very different from S2. We in audio are very much accustomed to tonal drivers. The more spectra or colors drives can furnish with introducing a permanent coloration the better driver is. Of cause the dynamic contrasts and the rest of it are factors but the fertility of color potency is a super important feature. The S2 is super reach in colors and if it is used properly it has no permanent colorations. I took the notion of chromic expression further then I have seen anywhere else by intestinally compromising some other aspects of playback, introducing the injection channel. It was very deliberate move. I would argue if I did it because I find even S2 not colorful enough or because there are other reason… I can advocate both sides. What important however is that my playback with S2 to a great degree made with chromatic objectives. 
 
The Goto drivers in my view are not chromatic at all. What we, the people with chromatic objectives value in sound, in my view, do not exist in Goto and if I compare Goto, having colors in my mind, even to some good vintage JBL drivers then Goto would not the winner. All known to me drivers, even the top of the line RCA MI, WE 9XX, Klangfilm KL are all tonal drivers. Goto is not. Still, listening Gotos I, being a very much tonal person, somehow have no frustration about the apparent lack of Goto colors. The reachness of tone just evaporate from my mind when I heard Goto and it is very strange about those drivers. I have no explanation how they do it but I have a suspicion that it is all about the Goto diaphragm suspension, the unique combination of material, thickness, magic force driving the VC made the sound very uniquely “plastic”, but in a very good meaning of the word. This atonal, “plastic” and super dynamic sound is very appealing and somehow make brain do not worry about colors. I hate to use word “plastic” as it is condescending and I have no negative meaning saying it. The TAD do sound “plastic” or “synthetic” but in bad way. Goto, if they do not have that very remarkable dynamics, would be sounding like top of the line TADs, but they do not. They have own “synthetic” sound but it is very natural and very attractive sound, which very much bring a questions: if “synthetic” is good then should I keep calling it “synthetic”? 
 
To me listening Goto is like touching a Teflon surface, it is very pleasurable. Following the same association to me listening S2 is like patting a brashed porcupine. Well, none of them live sound but for sure the Teflon is more pleasurable to touch.

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