Danny Richie "fixes" the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker


For some time now I have been directing those interested in loudspeaker design to Danny Richie’s GR Research Tech Talk Tuesday videos on YouTube. Here is his latest: an examination of the Linkwitz Arion loudspeaker. You may be asking yourself: if Siegfried Linkwitz is the genius he is touted to be, how is it Danny found the Orion to be lacking, and was able to find solutions for it’s failings? I’ll leave that to you to answer. In the meantime, after watching and listening to this video, you may want to watch all the Tech Talk Tuesday videos. They may just make you a more informed loudspeaker consumer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCA-eSPUkJA.









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~~~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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After listening to your videos about the cables you recently purchased, it is obvious you seriously need to put some effort into your room acoustics. You may find that the problems you think you have are not from your components, but from your room. No amount of money thrown at caps, cables, amps, and mods will change the fact that your room itself is causing the issues.

@clio09, interesting that both Roger and Bruce Thigpen ended up going with an 8" woofer in a small sealed enclosure to mate with their respective planars, Roger’s ESL’s, Bruce’s magnetic-planars. I deeply regret having been unable to hear Roger’s ESL driven by his direct-drive OTL amp. Now THAT’S the way to make a loudspeaker!

Danny Richie uses a pair of OB/Dipole subs up front (each sub having a pair of 12" woofers), and a pair of 12" sealed subs in the rear, with the rears in polarity opposite that of the fronts.