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If these arent going to make it to production, any chance of a possible flatpack kit? Or diy option??
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Has anyone ran Tekton speakers with their Inspire? I have been eyeing the Perfect SET 12 for some time now. The Mid/high tweeter array intrigues me a bit…
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Did you sell your KEFs?
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Still have my Kefs, surprisingly my Inspire drives them better than a Audio note kit EL34 push pull amp I’ve been toying with lately, that pushes a whopping 35 watts with c core transformers. I was pretty surprised.
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Has anyone watched any of the Danny Ritchey, of GR Research, videos posted on YouTube? Where people have sent in many different speakers to have him evaluate their construction quality and potentially upgrade them.
It is fascinating, and shocking, to see how many well-regarded and expensive speakers are using extremely cheap parts. Especially in their crossover networks. Speakers costing $4000, $5000, $6000+ from companies like Harbeth and Paradigm. Using parts that one might find in a common parts bin. Cheap iron-core inductor coils, bottom of the line resistors, low-grade capacitors, and common hardware store variety wiring. It is actually rare when he finds good quality parts. Sometimes he finds low quality speaker drivers too, and lots of speaker design issues, such as edge defraction and poor grill designs. Makes me appreciate my Von Schweikert speakers, which were upgraded many years ago at the factory with Hovland capacitors, Solen air-core inductors, Eagle metal-film resistors, and Analysis Plus 9AWG internal wiring. They also have three-layer cabinets with an internal thick layer of putty to deaden them. This makes them weigh 155 pounds each, but it is very good for the sound quality. Some of the speakers he takes apart are made of half-inch cheap particle board, the low grade stuff from Home Depot. I'm not surprised he finds low quality parts in $200-$300 speakers, but sometimes he finds those same parts buried inside of $5000 speakers. Last edited by Bombadil; 11-11-2021 at 12:13 AM. |
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Simon, We have 3 pair all but ready for market but life is getting in the way. Both Dennis and are I dealing with issues that sadly take president over this joyful hobby of ours. Hopefully soon but I said that months ago as well. Stay tuned. |
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If you noticed, in both GR videos Danny was a bit perplexed as to why the std lower cost Mozart speaker on the right measured out much better and much flatter frequency response than the thousand dollar higher Grand model on the left. My friend did eventually let Danny know those were not original parts when he sent them in. Shows even mild parts upgrades can help some times. Today my buddy just received several huge coils and Sonicaps and internal wiring in the GR upgrade kit. The crossover updates in the redesign and final test graph showed a dip removed at the low-high crossover point and now shows an even flatter and higher impedance than before the x-over redesign. Hopefully this should work better with my friend's tube amp. It was a next level experiment to see what a reasonable cost redesign and parts upgrade might do. Should know more soon. Last edited by decooney; 11-23-2021 at 10:00 PM. |
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Interesting.
I'm not surprised that by upgrading the junk-level parts found in many speakers to mid-level makes a difference. I would expect more of a difference in that step than from mid-level to high-level. |
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