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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Bill Gaw: over 50 years of high-end audio experience and time aligned horns.
Post Subject: Depends...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/12/2025
Anthony, they are very very good drivers. Perhaps cuz they are one of the best in their class. Still I would like not to make cult out of anything. The relative quality of components is very important things if they used properly. However, when we paid attention at the absolute implementations of any given playback installations, then we can discover that there is much much more to it.
For instance, a few months ago I visited a very elaborate playback installation with old largest Altec was used as a primary mid-range channel, sitting behind 18 cell horn. I know those drivers they are okay but kind of no cigars. However, in context of that installation that mid-range driver sound spectacularly. Is there a lot of complicated problems with that playback but the sound of that mid-range driver was completely out of this world. I asked the guy what the hell he did to it And he said that many years ago he bought on eBay a custom made paper diagram for this driver from some unknown guy from Russia. Pay attention, not aluminum but purely paper. I can only testify that it was absolutely wonderful result.
The same with the base driver. As you know I absolutely adore 15-in white box drivers but for my corner horns I do not use them, as I fill other drivers do better job. So, it is not about what is best. If you blindly look in the subject of what is best then you will end it up with a community of retards who clustered around their famous audio forum. They are collect what they sell to themselves as the best but they are in many cases our idiots who do not understand or feel what they do behind buffing themselves up at internet. If you have nothing to do book for yourself a trip and visit them, preferably those who create more noise. You will discover very soon that they indeed accumulated a lot of best equipment but that does not manifest interesting or even simulating results in their listening rooms.
So, having a capable playback components does not give advantages of assurance of stimulating result of a complete installation. I can give countless examples from my practice when I visited people with exceptional selection of equipment, you cannot even imagine how exceptional it was, but in the same time they did not particularly have good sound in their listening rooms. What was more appalling that they thinking about application of those excellent components was kind of strange, at least in my view.
The reason why I am writing all of it is to express my point of view that those wonderful Vitavox drivers are indeed wonderful but they themselves are not an assurance of some kind of quality or other success. For instance, me personally, as a person who dealing with those drivers for 25 years, I would more feel curious if I read not about the facts that they are good or bad but rather to learn about specific application of a given driver. In your case, I pretty much know what to do with S2, but I do not think I know very used 15-in driver.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site