High Fidelity Sound Speaker

@acresverde  - CM? Country Music? Me? I listen to both kinds of music... Country and Western... :~)

Good point acresverde.

@mozartfan.....I’ve watched about 10 of your videos now (it’s either that or tune in another "Big Bang" episode for the umpteenth time) and for all the railing on you do about only listening to CM, I have yet to see a single CM jewel case perched on your system nor have I heard you cue up the first CM cut

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey yeah well, there are reason(s) I stay mainly with jazz, Diana Krall, Sophie Milman, gatemouth Brown a few others, and yes skip CM. Although I listen exclusively to CM (Is Schnittke, Carter, Pettersson CM.. ?? not really) I do have 1 EllioTT Carter piece with Timpini, to show off bass response. Its somewhere in my stack of videos, .. Listened to Anton Webern, UX250 (aka 50) tube SET amplifier/Cobalt trans((WOW),, pure linear magic,, like music from outer space, as if music w/o gravational pull, as if music fluttering through dark matter of space the nots as bits of light streaming through the inner mind of consciousness. A few reasons I skip CM is 1) most members are mainly interested in jazz, and blues. 2) most jazz recordings have fantastic quality sound reproduction, This allows to hear what the speaker is actually capable of. Flaws become more clearly identifable, noticable. So yeah once the 2A3 amp arrives in 2 weeks, maybe we can hear a CM recording, something like Schnittke w chorus/orchestra. BIS has some high tech micing and excellent quality, where you get to hear what a FR can do with more complex music. Hopefully the 2A3 will offer a tad better response in complex music. Seems the more complex the music (orch/chorus) the more overlaod ona 6 watt SET. You lose some of the pure linear magic of a SET, bass /highs tend to be even more rolled off. Which is why I am looking at some other speakers in bass assist, single 8 inch magnesium by JBL, only avalaible on DavidLouis site and his Seas clone of the Millennium which I sold off.

As I’ve mentioned often, the FR (aka Full Midrange Speaker aka FMS) is not end all be all, you will need assist to make for a more well rounded, full/richer soundstage. The DIYers tag this design as WAW, or something like that. But my dual FMS ,, no one has come up with a tag yet. And the DIYers have given my idea 2 big thumbs down. They think its a *joke* of a speaker. And so have banned me from further posting on THEIR forum.

No big deal, I ;’ll always have Audiogon. wink

 Country 

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OK CM  could mean Country Music,  some of which is pretty good. 

I've found country not best for my demo YT ulploads, It can be noisey at times.

I prefer Diana Krall, Sophie Milman, Elvis Costello/Bacharach Painted Memories. , Gatemouth Brown for more complex, driving rythums. 

In these recordings you get a  chance to hear soundstage separation, bass/highs,  human voice. Bass rifts.

If a  speaker has any flaw, it will show up in higher relief with these cds than I can with lower fidelity classical music.

OK doing some resaerch in **wide band* *Full Range* *single source* speakers/drivers.

I remember seeing posts on Audiogon some decades back, about the Coral Beat 8..., Seems these FR came out cerca 1970's sold for ??

So it all began  in Chicago and Berlin speakers for the movie industry.

These early prottypes were fantastic in human voice, mids.

I can not find the YT vid of the 1929 Colatura(sp?) made in Chicago, Then we have the Klangsfilm and also Siemens same era.

Zeinth, RCA came along 30's, 

Next big manufacturers were Electro Voice and Jensen.

Perhaps Altec Lansing were the next big designs in Full Range,, Lowther, Fostex doing their designs. But its really the manufacturer in japan that really opened the possibilities to these magical designs, Coral Beta 8, CB10. 

I think CB8 was the new crown jewel of a  long history in this wide band design.

WE also should not over look Tannoy/s *concentric* ideas But I think Coral Beta has surpassed everyone in this field at that time, 1970's. 

seems AER, Cube, Voxativ bases their designs upon this magneficient Coral Beta 8 **wonder speaker*

I think the Coral Beta 8 was as good as it gets as far as complete total midrange in the concern. 

AER, Voxativ both have been around now  over a  decade. Yet rarely mentioned. Cube has recently made some interesting designs with a high powered Nd magnet motors.

Fostex, Mark Audio,  Tang band come in with lower priced offerings , all have a  good  fan base in asia. 

The most recent *new kid on the bloack* is Davidlouis with their VX8 and VX6, both offered in the year 2020.

I did catch a  pic of the  early prototype. Completely different , far superior design. 

Where these FR drivers are headed is anyones guess.

More futher developements??

Don't count on it.

Looks like each manufacturer has settled in to what they feel is best they can offer.

(Aplogies if I left ZU out the discussion)

xover/low sensitivity types just keep on keeping on,,, new/better/the latest, the hottest..

Stereophile's latest issue,,, yep you guessed it, The Wilson,, just one mo time. 

Sorry not interested. 

The Seas Thor xover/low sens design was quite enough.

To my ears I hear all xover.low sens designs  sound as *the same speaker, dif  flavor* variations on a theme. A theme that 's like a  ,,, excuse the pun, how could I resist,,A Broken Record. 

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