Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker

Another thing, I’ve worked with a few sound engineers, quite a few. Of the 30 or so I’ve met on job sites, only one had any desire to build or have anything to so with speakers. WHY? There is no money in it. Every one of those engineers were working on sound walls, or how to move that noise, from that valley, to that forest. NOT SPEAKERS, or room designers, ZERO money in it..

SO WE as audio buffs, really don’t get the best when it comes to speaker design...Kinda bottom of the bucket if you want to know the truth.

I also like the guy that says he’s a speaker makers, at least to be able to carry a tune in a sing along, or pick up a pair of spoons, a wash board or something and PLAY... NOT grab the MIC and away we go... YUK!!! Anyone can be taught to have a trained ear.

But to have MOJO in a speaker when they are done.. RARE!!!
VERY rare...

regards

How can the LInkwitz be the perfect speaker, when the Vandersteen (time aligned) is, er... the Magnepan (panel) is, er... the (insert favorite value speaker here) is!   ;) 

It's very important for the audiophile to think they have found the perfect speaker.  

@bdp24 While Roger did not like to use bass traps or other acoustic treatments he did understand the benefit of and how to get multiple subs to work well in a room. I had heard of the concept of the distributed bass array through Duke Lejuene of AudioKinesis, but it wasn't until I started working with Roger that I became more familiar with it. Roger read Toole and Geddes. He really liked Geddes' speaker design principles and adopted a three sub set up for his system which used an active crossover with active EQ and biamping. That is where the similarities end though. Roger's woofers that he ended up using in his DBA are low mass (achieving the same benefit as what Richie says his servo woofers do) and are in very small sealed boxes which he preferred for what he termed the "airspring" effect.

~~~It’s very important for the audiophile to think they have found the perfect speaker ~~~ 

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Richard Gray (upon his advice, = as he was installing new outside cab xovers he measured the 17 yrs aged M’s, and suggested after replacing diaphrams/voice coils,,= just get new ones), so today Richard just installed new Millennium tweets in the Seas Tho WOW factor <<HIGH>>
Perfect speaker?
Let me say, employing speaker design lingo <,Near perfect> In ~~MY~~ mind,, (I’m going to carolina in my mind,,couldn;t resist JT lyrics here...So as we find new mods/upgrades , in our system, here a tweak, there a mod, here a upgrade, there a new component..
Like heaven which is a perfect place, we can only imagine in our minds, this is ~~as good as it gets~~,, even through I know with my superior 6922 tubes in the cayin Cd17, more adjustments to the new xovers (adding superior M caps than the ones madisound installed), Jadis DPL line stage about to add new Vishay 2575 Zfoils resistors
So yeah, a speaker can eventually voice near perfection, provided the drivers hold a certain range of potential qualities of ~~Perfection~.
Which is why I choose seas as my speaker of choice back 17 years ago, Perfection is both objective and subjective.
Some folks actually find B&W, Wilson, Magneplanars, their ideal of a perfect speaker.
The perfect speaker does exist, if only in ones frame of reference.
You might just find the Seas Thors far from your ideal listening experience.
Then i might say, the critic has biased ears. And/or lacks exp.

Just after posting above,, went back to my listening room,  and the thought that richard planted in my brain,,came back as Faith Hill cd played on,,,**You have the wrong amp, or get new speakers.., mismatched***, Told Richard, can't part with either,,but now thinking what Richard ~bluntly~ said, perhaps, ,,((and after countless upgrades to the Defy7),,  he ~~just might~~ have a   valid opinion.
Seems the Seas Thors do voice a  tad bit murky mids,, whereas a  high performance (if such actually exists = musical), might clean up the some mid range voicing.. Its possible, I just don't know.
maybe we keep the Jadis DPL and employ a  high perf soild state for the  Thors to voice their full potential<,??>> anything is possible.. 
Let me write Richard and see if this is what his opinion is.
He sort of <,smirtched>. his suggestion, knowing full well I ain't listening/taking HIS ideas all that serious..
Just saying,,  might bea  mismatch  = Thors do have more potential in highs/mids, Bass is equal to any monsta ss amp. The Defy(new Mundorf Supreme Silvergold .47uf on each power tube = 12 caps + another 8 new F&T caps in the circuit) has the Thors sounding like a  sub amp is employed.
Be right back........
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