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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.

 

'Course that 20 year old DAC is a Pacific Microsonics Model 2. Pretty much unobtainium. A buddy of mine sold his a couple of years ago for $18k IIRC.

Up at Coast Recording, they have/had a few and that is probably one of them.

They may have switched over to the new Bricasti M1.

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Definitely!  Big horns and compression drivers are where it's at for me.  Just need to get it together.  Here is OMA's flagship:

 

 

 

Big fan here as well, though IMO the number of bad horn designs swamp the number of good ones. Too many places for things to go wrong. 

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Not only do they look good, but because of the 'KEF' style 6 x 9 subwoofer on the back, they supply enough bass for a very satisfying system, sans separate subs. And they're beautifully balanced.

 

Don't be fooled though, these speakers need serious power to open up.

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Hopefully, my end-state speaker system will look something like this: 

 

5-way system.  What looks like 80hz bass horn, 250hz and 800hz spherical tractrix, and super tweeter with two tapped horns (the towers) for sub bass down to 20 hz. 

 

 

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Goodwins High End isn't far from me, I should check them out; that looks like quite the speaker.  

 

I remember being in there when they had I think the second Magico model (big multi-driver tower).  WAY too big for the room they were in, and amazingly glaring all over the place from mids on up.  Someone was in listening and came out "very impressed"  :laugh:

 

I couldn't stand to be in the room for more than about a minute.  They are surely much better than how they sounded that day in that room.....(the Mini's were in that room another time, and sounded quite good).

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I like the looks of that!  A bit busy.  But it looks a lot better than the crappy foam bass traps I've got set up.  Using box frames to add a bit of knobbliness to the wall seems like a good idea too.  I am a big advocate of room treatments where possible.  I guess this system places the "dead" end of the room on the speaker side.  I've got my "dead" side of the room at the listening position side. 

 

Having said all that, what real effect is there when the majority of the sound is likely being handled by what looks like a single 3" driver?  Maybe those 10" on the sides of the speakers are crossed at around 100hz?  Unless the perspective is really strange, those front-facing drivers look like something out of a mini-monitor... 

 

I do have a good bit of artwork up on the largest wall surface.  I don't know what difference it makes as I am not using anything as extreme as this guys box frames (which may well include damping material inside).

 

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