Single driver speakers - opinions

Couple years back (I think in 2007), during N.Y Home Entertainment Show if memory serves me right - I audition Lipinski speakers and met the man himself.
From what I've heard, it was one of the few positive demonstrations over the 2 days period spend at the Hyatt hotel. My impression (then) of Lipinski speakers reflect those found in Stereophile review - accuracy, lock of coloration, delicacy and dynamics when called for. Of course with use of his own subs and paired with SS mono-block amps.....which but away , you can all have in the sweetest deal ever.

Or you can wait few months and I will inform you and ask you to hear for yourself - brand new speakers that hopefully will turn heads ( at very reasonable price I might add).

Cheers
Mariusz

Jeff (Cardersound),
The Frugal Horn website shows a modelled frequency response curve for the Sachiko, on which the Madison is based I believe. The curve has some mean dips in the lower mid-range area. Can you tell me to what these are due? Are they artifacts of modelling? Do they show up in real life?

TBone, the curve also seem to indicate a 10db drop from 90Hz to 50Hz, but in reality my Madisons are very strong in the bottom. I can easily compare them with my HT speakers which are Meadowlark Shearwaters which are rated -3db at 34Hz.

Obviously my ears aren’t SPL meters, so it may be that the attenuation at the bass, and the dips you refer to, are present and I am not hearing them. To my ears the Madison are some of the very best speakers I have heard bar none.

But then I am biased as I own a pair :-).

Regards
Paul

Pauly, I am intrigued so am thinking of how to make some myself. I expect I could get some relief from the LHS of the graph through room/floor/ceiling reinforcement (and if one could spiral the top horn so it went out the side, I would could improve the bass even more.

With your comparison to the Meadowlarks, are you suggesting that the Madison bass compares favorably? or that you can tell the difference...

My original question was actually referring to the dips from 200Hz up to 1000Hz, where immediate-space room reinforcement probably plays less of a role (but reflections play more of a role).

T_Bone, the bass compares favorably with that of my Meadowlarks. The Madisons need no bass reinforcement as mine are 6’-7’ from the walls.

Soundwise, the Meadowlarks now put me to sleep. They sound so terribly slow compared to the Madisons that I had to relegate them to HT duty. (And I really did like them a whole lot before)

As I mention, I cannot hear any dips, but I suspect we are not sensitive to dips in sounds as we are to peaks. My room is heavily treated so this could possibly give me a flatter curve than the one posted. It’s difficult to say - I go by ear alone and don’t let measurements drive what I like or not.

Regards
Paul