Gilmore Audio planars revealed

One more try:

At 60 degree horizontal dispersion, it is 3dB down. Considering that bass is not directional, 500 HZ is when this becomes significant (directional); below that things are pretty much omni-directional.

In terms of the vertical dispersion, what I can tell you is that it is enough. You stand up, you sit down, nothing really changes. That's why we really haven't bothered to measure it. There's another neat thing about well constructed line sources -- they are often louder at 3 meters than one meter, even though we measure sensitivity at 1 meter because every one else does.

Isn't life grand?

WE are done with you. You don't know what you don't know and it is clear that you don't want to learn either. You clearly have no conception about what we are doing because you are blinded by a paradigm which is totally irrelevant to our speake. In turn your arguments totally miss the mark. We are very familiar with Mr. Linkwitz and his marvelous work and I dare say, we understand it perhaps a bit better than you .. among other things. FInally, we don't need any machine to test our excursion. You can push the planar woofer with your finger and measure it. Now its just a matter of getting enough power to make it move that far -- which someone couldn't stand to listen to anyway.

BYE for good.

Dear Sellerwithintegrity,

Could you PLEASE refer to the poster you are replying to?

You just made 6 posts and I'm having trouble connecting the dots. On a previous occasion in this thread, you made 5 posts in a row, and one of them was a reply to me - so I had a vested interest in working out which was which.

Regards,

I believe he is referring to me as the one he is done with, mainly because in spite of his 'welcoming skepticism' he is unable to answer the questions.

He incorrectly stated the Xmax, then says proper testing is unnecessary when a finger is just as good.

He has stated they didn't even bother testing the vertical dispersion, which was the point in question with the ribbons, not the horizontal dispersion.

He has made the rather unusual statement that his speakers are louder at 3 meters than they are at 1 meter because they are line sources (!).

He has also stated that they produce 'louder and cleaner' bass than any other speaker they know of, in spite of being dipoles.

While professing admiration for Mr. Linkwitz, who probably knows more about dipole bass than any other on this planet, he has failed to provide any information on how his speakers are able to ignore the fundamental truths about dipole bass SL espouses, especially in the area of maximum volume.

And in the midst of all that he has intimated that I am a liar, ignorant etc etc. I'm quite happy to admit I'm wrong, when shown precisely why.

Just for the hell of it, I will reiterate the problem. You have used this forum to tout your speakers while making very grandiose claims. When questioned about these claims you have failed to respond in any meaningful way other than to say 'trust us', and insult those who ask the question.

You may be a 'buyerwithintegrity' at eBay, but as a 'sellerwithintegrity' you still have a ways to go.

Still, best of luck. Having heard other ribbon/dynamic hybrids of a very similar design, and owned many dipoles from Martin Logans to Audio Artistry, plus having build my own Linkwitz inspired dipoles I am sure they will sound great. Within their limitations.

Take a chill pill and have a great day.

One thing is certain, these "new" Carver's have a lot of people talking. Good questions have been raised and the answers seem to me to have fallen a little short, but I will reserve judgement until I can actually listen to a pair. I would like to offer one observation, no matter how good they sound it's going to be tough getting folks to plunk down 19K for the "standard" Corian colors and then upcharge for the others. I, for one, do not want a pair of kitchen counters in my listening room.

Regards