Have had an Usher 8137A pair and LCY-130 ribbon pair around forever. At 79, with only a little high frequency hearing left, it is time to use them. First on the agenda is measurements so that I can do time aligned driver placement. Once I know the offsets I will design the cabinets. Lean toward Paul Carmody's " Tarkus " style cabinets because of their flexibility. JohnK tells me that he now likes LR4 sound as well as transient perfect filler driver sound. I will experiment with both. Bass alignment sealed, Q =.707 target.
What I value most in speakers and amps is the ability to resolve the finest detail in in the input signal. An example of what I mean by this is that in one of the Mozart piano concertos there is a quiet passage where the violins are playing pizzicato notes in unison with the piano. On most speakers, one cannot hear anything but piano, the speakers being unable to resolve the differences in overtones; on my TP SkanSpeak speakers one hears both. So, one of my crossover options will be a filler driver TP because I like my basement speakers so much. The problem with current speakers is that they are big and ugly, with little chance of going to the living room due to low WAF and they are too unwieldy and heavy for me to move up and down stairs. (getting old sucks!)
The mids I am considering (so far) are the Tang Band 1337, Aurum Cantu 130F1 and the SkanSpeak 10F8424, all 8 ohm drivers to make life easy for my tube amps. With all this as preamble, are there other mids that I should be considering? Thank you for your well considered and expert advice.
What I value most in speakers and amps is the ability to resolve the finest detail in in the input signal. An example of what I mean by this is that in one of the Mozart piano concertos there is a quiet passage where the violins are playing pizzicato notes in unison with the piano. On most speakers, one cannot hear anything but piano, the speakers being unable to resolve the differences in overtones; on my TP SkanSpeak speakers one hears both. So, one of my crossover options will be a filler driver TP because I like my basement speakers so much. The problem with current speakers is that they are big and ugly, with little chance of going to the living room due to low WAF and they are too unwieldy and heavy for me to move up and down stairs. (getting old sucks!)
The mids I am considering (so far) are the Tang Band 1337, Aurum Cantu 130F1 and the SkanSpeak 10F8424, all 8 ohm drivers to make life easy for my tube amps. With all this as preamble, are there other mids that I should be considering? Thank you for your well considered and expert advice.
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