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Looking for input: Best material for mid range cone

I had a surprise last night when I switched speakers in my system.  I've got a few pairs, but had been listening mainly to some Ascend Sierra 1, which have a polypropylene cone with a soft dome tweeter in a bookshelf design.  Anyway, I've got a pair of Tannoy Precision 6.1's, and swapped them in.  

The sound was noticeably different.  Piano sounded better, vocals had a finer quality as well, and the whole sound seemed a little more lively.  Now the Tannoys have silver interior wiring, a titanium tweeter in a coax design and are only rated for 75 watts. The cone material is some kind of pressed paper fibre.  And they are voiced to somewhat push the midrange.  But the sound was compelling.

I'm just wondering about cone material because some old Paradigms with Polypropylene were really not up to snuff, but they were quite old.  Any thoughts?
213runnin
williewonka
3,075 posts
 
I'm not saying my speaker is better, just a different approach than most - that I am extremely happy with -  it uses a Morel 2 1/8" soft dome midrange.

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/gershman-acoustics-sonogram-loudspeaker/

I've heard there are a couple of other companies out there using a 2" dome also

The Sonograms are very dynamic, detailed and smooth.

I've stopped looking for speakers since buying these

Regards - Steve


hifisoundguy
630 posts
 
I've never heard cone speakers that could match the midrange and highs that ESL's give you!
douglas_schroeder
3,281 posts
 
Hifisoundguy, I have. In fact, I’ve heard significantly better in comparison in my systems.

Waste of time to debate cone material as though one is universally superior.
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