Mozartfan,
From this, and other threads, I gather that you are a fan of the wide-range Voxativ and AER drivers. I am a fan of both companies too, but, that hardly makes everyone else "frauds," or "fakesters" or "snakeoil." I've heard dramatically different sounding systems using Voxativ andd AER drivers such that, if you blindfolded me I could never identify these drivers in a system; everything else about the particular system will dramatically affect what is the perceived sound from the wide-range driver. In fact, the more variety of systems I hear with any driver, the LESS likely it is that I can identify the driver. The AER BD1 and BD2 drivers I heard in back-loaded horn and in open baffle setups and the systems sounded totally different. I've also heard a variety of systems using Voxativ drivers and some sounded incredibly smooth and natural, while others sounded quite edgy and brittle--implementation counts more than the particular component utilized. The same can be said of the other wide-range drivers I've heard, such as Lowthers, Feastrix, G.I.P. Laboratories, Tangband, Jensen. . .
I hesitate to say which drivers I like the most because, just when I think I don't like a particular driver that much, I will hear a design that changes my mind (e.g., G.I.P. 4165--I heard a system that I did not like that much with this driver, but, a recent audition where the speaker system has been refined and voiced a little differently has changed my mind). The best system I've heard with a wide-range driver utilized the Jensen/ERPI M10 and a tweeter set to come in WAY up on top (Jensen run full-range, first order high pass set around 10k for the tweeter). Can it be bettered? I am sure anything can be improved, even when the goal is to satisfy just me (I imagine a fieldcoil tweeter, to match the fieldcoil M10, would be an improvement).
From this, and other threads, I gather that you are a fan of the wide-range Voxativ and AER drivers. I am a fan of both companies too, but, that hardly makes everyone else "frauds," or "fakesters" or "snakeoil." I've heard dramatically different sounding systems using Voxativ andd AER drivers such that, if you blindfolded me I could never identify these drivers in a system; everything else about the particular system will dramatically affect what is the perceived sound from the wide-range driver. In fact, the more variety of systems I hear with any driver, the LESS likely it is that I can identify the driver. The AER BD1 and BD2 drivers I heard in back-loaded horn and in open baffle setups and the systems sounded totally different. I've also heard a variety of systems using Voxativ drivers and some sounded incredibly smooth and natural, while others sounded quite edgy and brittle--implementation counts more than the particular component utilized. The same can be said of the other wide-range drivers I've heard, such as Lowthers, Feastrix, G.I.P. Laboratories, Tangband, Jensen. . .
I hesitate to say which drivers I like the most because, just when I think I don't like a particular driver that much, I will hear a design that changes my mind (e.g., G.I.P. 4165--I heard a system that I did not like that much with this driver, but, a recent audition where the speaker system has been refined and voiced a little differently has changed my mind). The best system I've heard with a wide-range driver utilized the Jensen/ERPI M10 and a tweeter set to come in WAY up on top (Jensen run full-range, first order high pass set around 10k for the tweeter). Can it be bettered? I am sure anything can be improved, even when the goal is to satisfy just me (I imagine a fieldcoil tweeter, to match the fieldcoil M10, would be an improvement).