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they are designed to have controlled directivity, similar to linkwitz newest design and the Nao note speakers.

the only problem with controlled directivity open baffle speakers are the ugly baffles, so it took a lot of thinking and prototyping to make these somewhat good looking  8)

also, RAAL tweeters sound amazing!

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Ah, Mike L, up here in the Seattle area.  Nicest guy you will ever meet in audio.  The rest of his system is here.  I have not heard his recent version of the system, but a friend a few years back declared it to be easily in the top five on the west coast.  Check out the last photo: When he bought the house, it had a horse barn out back.  He had it closed in and walled in, with the acoustic work being done by Rives Audio.  Total custom from top to bottom.  Damn.

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Here's some active speaker prawn - 

 

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KEF X300A in transparent cabinet. Sans damping fuzz, as far as I can tell.

 

Interestingly both speakers house more or less identical electronics and use USB cable for chaining - meaning both have DACs.

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God, that room, though.   That room is a dream.

Kinda funny,..

Mike was sitting just a couple of chairs down from you when you were at the Bottlehead booth at RMAF so many moons ago.

 

BTW, Mike is a really nice guy but he buys into some "iffy" shit.

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Kinda funny,..

Mike was sitting just a couple of chairs down from you when you were at the Bottlehead booth at RMAF so many moons ago.

 

BTW, Mike is a really nice guy but he buys into some "iffy" shit.

 

 

I'd love to make his acquaintance some time and spend an afternoon in the barn.  I've seen pictures of it for years, and it is something of a legend in my home.  I couldn't care less about the gear, frankly, as it looks like he's spent more than my entire system's value on speaker cables, but I'm very interested in the room.  It's evident from the gear choices he's made that the "iffy shit" runs deep in him.  

 

Given his resources, I'm not sure what my system would look like.  I'm imagining it would basically be Ray Kimber's old show demonstration rig of 12x soundlab electrostat panels run through huge Pass amps.  http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;image=7739

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DarTZeel products amuse me to no end.  I've never heard any, so my amusement is derived solely from their looks (and ca. 1994 pirate BBS capitalization scheme).  Supposedly, Frank Herbert based House Harkonnen on the Swiss.   These two thoughts are more related than one might think.

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I think it's amusing that with the DSD craze and audiophiles obsessing over every FOTW DAC Alon Wolf is showing his speakers with a 20 year old DAC at last week's Munich show. I would also like to hear what $40k a pair compression drivers sound like.

 

 

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