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Perhaps you don't understand exactly what the Beolabs are capable of, this isn't marketing push like nano coatings on drivers this a paradigm change.
Keith
Keith
Maybe, but at some point it may just be the case that a technology finally does become 'finished'. The colour TV makes the B&W version irrelevant, and the 4K (or 8K) flat screen television makes the CRT irrelevant. It's becoming harder to improve on a screen that is 5 mm thick, as big as can be used in the average house, has no border around it, and exceeds the resolution of the viewer's eyes. Maybe we are 'there'?Keith,
Do you have any idea how many times I've heard that over my last 50 years in Hi Fi?
PLEASE, don't be silly.
The desire for expensive drivers in these systems would be a misunderstanding of how they work - in fact, exotic drivers may be a positive disadvantage. What is needed are boring drivers that behave uniformly well over a relatively narrow frequency range. No 'character' or 'musicality' of their own is required.SEAS drivers but the DSP will correct any anomalies Kiis are £9k which is for a complete system.
Keith
The desire for expensive drivers in these systems would be a misunderstanding of how they work - in fact, exotic drivers may be a positive disadvantage. What is needed are boring drivers that behave uniformly well over a relatively narrow frequency range. No 'character' or 'musicality' of their own is required.
The Beolabs and Kii THREES make everything else irrelevant
Well one of our original threads was a ' funny bathroom signs ' thread... I guess that set the tone Kal.I am not pointing fingers but, sometimes, it is hard to determine the differences between snide, satiric and sophomoric around here.
All I know is that many of the exotic driver materials (super-light, high stiffness-to-mass ratio etc.) seem to come with warnings about resonances and lack of damping. If you're working over a narrow frequency range, it would seem that there would be no point in using anything that is pushing the envelope in that regard..?Cosmik, an honest question for you:
Would an array of different size old-style paper cone drivers with Alnico magnets qualify as "boring"?
Whatcha talkin bout WillisI am not pointing fingers but, sometimes, it is hard to determine the differences between snide, satiric and sophomoric around here.
Trying to accurately reproduce what we hear, making the reproduction sound exactly like the original.So our future consists of giant sound bars?
Trying to accurately reproduce what we hear, making the reproduction sound exactly like the original.
Keith