Explain Tad woofers ???? Help.

[KCCT82]

And for those who want to see better pics of the components... cross over is coming soon

[KCCT82]

enjoy_the_music - you have to change your avatar to mine now

[matsj]

Hmmm Keith, you can get my adress and send it to me. I will take good care of the 1102 .

mats

[enjoy_the_music]

Don't rub it in!

I am actually considering the construction of twin bass cabinets underneath the 2251's...housing TAD 1601c or JBL 1500AL like Merlin used. I could be waiting a long time to find a pair of TAD 2404.

I don't have the room at the moment for REY Audio speakers.

Good luck with the build..look really nice.

enjoy_the_music - you have to change your avatar to mine now

[KCCT82]

I am actually considering the construction of twin bass cabinets underneath the 2251's...housing TAD 1601c or JBL 1500AL like Merlin used. I could be waiting a long time to find a pair of TAD 2404.

Good luck finding the 1601c, probably harder to find than the 2404 which in my opinion is already too hard Better off trying to find b's. Enjoy, they look very nice

[Harryup]

Anyone having the schematics of the filter of the 2251?

Regards
Harry

[stephane RAME]

The big sound

[speakerdave]

The big sound . . . .

Hmmm . . . . having double horns in a home stereo system is silly and counterproductive. Unless owner's a deaf old rocker he doesn't need them. Anybody else playing that system to the volume potential of the speakers is going to be deaf soon. The double HF sources will screw up the soundstage and imaging, even with excellent treble drivers like that. In my experience, even double woofers playing up to a 650 crossover point can give a discernible and unwelcome sense of multiple sources. I believe systems with multiple drivers covering a given bandwidth will work well at a certain focus point only. Those woofers above and below, for example, will only be working together when the listening position is centered between them at some certain distance. Before and after, below and above, it will be smeared. With the added problem of side by side woofers playing out of the frequency range of effective acoustic doubling, in speakers that cannot be toed in, there will be no spot that is entirely satisfactory. I doubt very much this system is focused anywhere.

Owner of this system should do himself and some other lucky person a big favor by selling him the extra HTF (Hard To Find) horns and drivers. I would even use just one woofer per side, and if he wants more low bass, cut the extras in low as in the JBL 4435 and Everest II or get some good subwoofers.

This system looks like a show piece to me, and that's about it. (photo reproduced below)

David

[tomt]

The big sound

thanks for the picture.

looks good from here .





seems these sound quite good as well -

I assume everybody here knows that Bart Locanthi designed the TAD stuff.

looks like Bart is the father of the modern low frequency loudspeaker.

and utilized computers even before they were digital.

and all tube.

all analog.

you just know those computers sound better ...


looks like Shozo Kinoshita did design for tad as well -

http://www.reyaudio.com/history-e.html