Sorry for the intrusion on this thread as the topic is about other companies but there are a couple of statements posted above that question or defy reality.
If you decide to go the cones route be sure to choose those NASA grade ceramics since they couple the best. You know, due to their superior hardness, much harder than steel or brass or aluminum or whatever.
Wow! Never heard that one before…?
Enlighten us one more time Mr. Kait, what does “couple the best” mean or is there any proof of this “best” performance prior to determining this is just another farfetched belief?
We noticed you are reverting back to your old cut and paste product commission based referrals and replies. We thought “NASA grade” ceramics or “NASA grade” anything with exception to payroll grade analogies were eliminated from audio cone endorsements a few months back.
NASA grade… is that anything like LIGO grade or how about Smithsonian grade or better yet report card grade?
Where on earth can we acquire that elusive NASA grade brass?
There are many grades of steels, brasses, aluminum and ceramics too that will yield a host of different variables in performance but could not locate any whatsoever endorsed by NASA. Your generic posts and associated propaganda other than shilling for sales and profit simply display one man’s repetitive opinion that lacks credibility and can easily be proven wrong.
Example:
Direct Coupling techniques vary greatly where no two innovations or methodologies sound alike.
Take those ceramic cones you continue to promote and if you dare to compare their most expensive versions to a lesser expensive product such as ours. This platform model weighs in at 14 pounds of resonant conductive mass whereas the ceramics barely provide a couple of pounds. Material hardness has little to do with the end result in sonic when geometry and mass combining with material science and consumer pricing are applied to the equation.
Audition both products and one can easily determine via listening how the results differ from your statements and theorems on material hardness. Your entire post is all about your single ended opinions because in this case, brass and steel largely increases musical performance by comparison.
If your goal is reducing mechanical feedback you better feel like decoupling since coupling insures mechanical feedback.
Another extremely generic improbable statement is born.
Every direct coupled system is different by geometric design, application and materials used, therefore each product should be listened to or tested on its own before making such outlandish statements.
Example – Mechanical Feedback: Wikipedia - Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second system influences the first, leading to a circular argument. This makes reasoning based upon cause and effect tricky, and it is necessary to analyze the system as a whole.
There are products available based on mechanical grounding (direct coupling) processes that easily prove this poorly informed statement of “insuring anything” provides zero merit.
Please describe for us what mechanical feedback sounds like and list a few products we can purchase in order to hear or determine how mechanical feedback relates to sound and musical reproduction prior to going round and round in another encircling useless argument?
Yawn...
Robert – Star Sound
