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Fritz Loudspeaker Hemptone Tower

Posted by Todd Krieger (A) on December 15, 2006 at 22:21:26

In Reply to: Full-range driver systems posted by Inmate51 on December 15, 2006 at 14:55:40:

"There had been discussions about doppler distortion, IM distortion, radiation patterns, etc., in many *forums*, but they seem to have 'gone away'."

I think the interest drifted away from such designs.... I think it's cyclical....

"Are those topics *real* issues, or were they found to be irrelevant after some reasonable scrutiny?"

The Fritz Hemptone Tower speaker uses an 8-inch Hemptone full-range driver, and is in my opinion an extraordinary loudspeaker. It is devoid of the major flaw I've experienced consistently in the past with full-rangers- Midrange congestion.... Or "shout".... The Fritz possesses a sense of dynamic scale and transparency that reminds me of a field-coil speaker. With the Don Allen Cakepan amp, no equalization network or supertweeter is needed, with a presentation that captures the palpability of small ensembles that full-rangers are noted for, but also the complexity and gestalt of large symphonic or big band works, which is normally a weakness of full-range drivers (due to the shout).

The speaker of course exhibits rolled off response off-axis, but I rarely find this objectionable in a full-range driver speaker. For the superior time response IMO more than makes up for that.

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