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In Reply to: It seems to be a common theme among classical and opera fans posted by Dan_ed on December 17, 2008 at 06:52:58:
I'm strongly of the opinion that there are many ways to skin a cat. :^)
The picture is the system we put up at VSAC 2008; I had a large part in designing it. It's great sounding to my ear, I'm quite happy with it. Note that most of the visual stuff is the 18 SET monoblocks driving the 12 drivers; this is entirely cones and ribbons, and while the Raal ribbon is high efficiency, the woofers are barely there by virtue of being four in parallel each channel, and the midrange is frankly not efficient at all.
At home I have a simple 2-way, JBL 2220 crossed at 800Hz to a 2441 with the short horn/acoustic lens; sometimes a subwoofer is added because the 2220s in 3cf cabinets don't go down to even 60Hz. Basic sensitivity is 101dB/w/m. And I'm a classical fan, most especially Mahler. (I also played the cello in my youth, moderately well in fact, though I have not touched it for decades.) I like this system a lot for the usual dynamic clarity reasons, though I can't help but notice the strong colorations from the small-mouth horn and the nasty spitty high treble from the titanium (2445) diaphragms. Still, I'm quite happy with it.
Can there be two systems more different? I doubt it. Yet both let me hear the music in ways that few "ordinary" systems can approach.
Each of them has (very different) things I would like to work on to bring them closer to what I want to hear. The horns need the most work - a 4 inch mouth crossed at 800Hz is really kind of pathetic after all! But both are sufficiently promising in ways the other will always have a hard time getting to, so it seems worth the effort to me to keep working on them.
My experience with the Wilsons is sadly out of date, but what I remember is how good they were at what they are good at, and how bad they were at what cones and domes just can't do. At the other end, years ago I heard the Living Voice system in Nottingham - a four-way horn system using Supravox parts and an enormous amount of listening optimization - and have remained impressed to this day. Like SETs, it had faults I could hear but it let the music through in ways that kept me from paying attention to the faults.
My two cents. We all hear - and care about - different things in music, so it should be no surprise we like different components.
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