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I just visited the Highend in Munich and had the chance to listen to two of those monster SETs. Cessaro showed up with monstrous 833 amps and my thought was that there is something wrong with the music. I know it is common in this forum to describe w...
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[quote user="coops"]Ralph spends hours polishing those tweeters![/quote]Because he is a subordinate of the game that he plays to serve the interests of public consumption. Your Ralph need to worry about the moronic prejudges of public that would look...
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]the horn looks suspicious.[/quote]
my issue with it, though, is not the discontinuity in the curvature but rather overall dimensions.
it looks too wide to be a slot. this is a product that is supposed to work at 20+ kh...
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wow.thanks for comments.La Grande Castine will not be as expensive as Cessaro Gamma.i am sorry but i cannot answer to all questions, for several reasons you can understand.we have tested many drivers since the early prototype of La Grande Castine. BM...
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Some folks from Australian audio site nominated my Macondo as the ugliest loudspeaker. I would disagree but my objective in this thread is not arguing about tastes but to talk a bit about reference points of judgments. It is irrelevant to me per...
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Hi Paul. Dont get me wrong, i dont want to sound like advertising it. Yet they made me excited with their approach and achievement. So I cant prevent sharing a little. Of course investing huge effort & ressources wont guarantee amazing results. L...
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[quote user="xandcg"] I head/read somewhere Cessaro use modified G.I.P. drivers when the client want
field coils.
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That might be very interesting as the greatest liability of largest
Cessaro is the cheesy TAD drivers. The fact they clai...
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[quote user="coops"]I would never presume to make such a claim, regarding active bass,I have heard quite a few systems now where the ( active )bass is very disjointed, Avantgardes for example, and the music just does not flow, but I will discuss your...
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Romy, thanks for your prompt response. I find your response a bit appalling since I seriously hope I can get away by achieving a similar sound by not paying the full price. What did click about the Olympian? Might be easier to do comparison. Say ...
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Many thanks for your attention.I will not try to make the horns myself since I do not have the necessary abilities for that. I am too far, educational/professional-wise, from a related field to acquire the enough information to properly make anything...
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Cessaro once again didn't manage to find electronics that compensate the cold TAD sound, so the Silbaton WE demonstration one or two rooms away was quite a contrast. Without being addicted to that kind of sound and without having too much listening e...
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[quote user="Purite Audio"]…. dual skinned carbon/fibreglass horns, which are filled with a liquid polymer… [/quote] Wow, this is new. I never even though about it. We fill hoe with sand, tape it with wax but I very seen or hear of anybody make horns...
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[quote user="coops"]I have re-read your post and your tone sugests that field coil drivers wi be used by manufacturers purely for their marketing appeal and not for any sonic improvement, Thomas Woschnick has just taken delivery of a pair of Ce...
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[quote user="Merlin"]Where Romy is wrong is the cost of TAD drive units.[/quote]Well, perhaps my outdated memory plays a bad joke on me. What I remember from beginning of 2000s that TAD 2001 cost around $1200 retail with “street price” of $900. The w...
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I had my visit in Munich yesterday and the Cessaro´s performance was totally different. Tonally without any compromize, so it was a pleasure to stay in the room this time :) Unfortunately very much on the muddy side. I think I start to understan...
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Coops,there were more than a hundred rooms at that show (including the cabins of the small manufacturers in the ground floor) and I had no other chance than giving many of them just seconds, so I only stayed longer when I liked the sound after these ...
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Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...
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Romy Hi, Raplh uses a 300b push pull, but the power supplies are massive, parts alone 15K Euros, each channel has a separate supply, the pre-amp again two massive power supplies , he prefers to use eight of the horn loaded bass bins, although I...
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I certainly think you must use an active device for the bass/mid transition in any serious design at this level. Choice of amplifiers will be personal. I don't have the worry of output transormers.
I have heard both these and the Cessaro though (...
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[quote user="Merlin"] If they are modifying conventional drive units by hand, the labour costs alone can be prohibitively expensive. The fact that they are using heavy Alnico magnets and coating the diaphrams suggests that these units do not co...
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[quote user="Vasyachkin"]
compression drivers are the way to go as far as i am concerned but obviously performance depends on the horn lens.
my beef with ET-703 is that i don't understand its horn or whatever it is. if not an explana...
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Personally, speculatively. It's my belief that one or one maker *shouldn't* have to wander too far past this range for practicality and morality...I can understand if some goodness can't be value developed easily (even then, there could be probl...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy just a quick post, after the Munich show I had the oppurtunity to spend a few hours listening to Ralph Krebs home system, the Cessaro Gamma's, super sound, the antithesis of almost everything I heard at the MOC, regards Keith...
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This is what the Cessaro sounded like last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvA43ym5cYo&feature=youtu.beI don't think he's "upgraded" his camera in the meantime.There's this other "local guy" doing video reports with reasonably good sound bu...
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[quote
user="martinshorn"] Indeed you sound a little racist, but i think we all have our prejudice. [/quote]
I do not think that it is racist
in any way or form. Racism is a prejudice against a race in my case it is prejudice
and historic...
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Hello,Can you give me some ideas for a good room? Also, audio related ideas are always welcome too.The initial plan is a room with 5m H x 10m W x 14m D (about 16,5ft H x 33ft W x 46ft D). Solid floor, probably porcelain tile (chess floor style), and ...
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[quote user="Amir"]Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally you hear Crap t...
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I think the problem starts when we short circuit the process. It is easy enough to sell "the Best" of anything and still get mediocre results. If we are looking for a modular approach to DSET/speaker, then the results are also best guess because ther...
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[quote user="coops"]Romy rain all this weekend so have been listening to the Stahl-Tek and the MSB platinum III with 'signature' upgrades , MSB seems to float the sound ona cloud of coton candy, almost to the detriment of resolution , perhaps there i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
el`Ol wrote:I think they could could make the sound more pleasant with an overkill of second harmonic distortion. But for people who prefer that kind of sound a relax-horn like Anima would be better anyway. No real solut...
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