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RE: Has AN considered single driver speakers or remaking the Snell Type A?

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In Reply to: RE: Has AN considered single driver speakers or remaking the Snell Type A? posted by RGA on August 25, 2007 at 18:22:16

Hi RGA,

Peter has worked with Lowther drivers off and on for a lot of years but as far as I know has given up on that route. He has owned several pairs of Snell Type A's and, I think, I owns at least a pair or two currently.

It's an interesting coincidence that Audio Note and Omega have both moved to hemp drivers within a year or so of each other, but the drivers have nothing in common, (other than hemp) and the companies are not related.

Louis and I are both in CT and keep talking about getting together so that our toys can play together, and we see each other regularly at trade shows and chat a bit, but that's about the extent of the connection.

Keep your ears and your mind open.

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it's interesting... - RGA 20:46:23 08/26/07 (2)
because the Omega line seems to certainly "look" similar and obviously believe in SET amps.

As for the single driver -- Peter said he very much liked the CM4 or something from Lowther but that it was too large for practical use. The driver has a range of 30hz-18khz or something which is outstanding. Certainly intereting stuff and not expensive.

The Type A is just something I think would be cool. If the E has that kind of Bass then what does the type A do? AN has reworked the E, J and K -- is it an issue of not holding the rights to the A. Is it that they are just too big?

Obviously Peter Snell made the A as his top end product -- and as such I would love to hear a suped up modified version of it. Hmm 10hz - 105db sensitive and what 115dbspl.

That would be AWESOME!!!
- Omega & AN single-driver speakers - DougE 13:16:07 08/27/07 (1)
  RGA, I'd like to see an AN single driver as well. Does anyone know if this is something that's been considered?
  
  The basic charachter of Lowthers and other single-drivers (I own Cain/Fostex and Omega/hemp) is quite different from most multi-ways and AN E's. Since the rest of the line (K & J) sound similar to the E, I'd think that going a totally different direction sonically with a single-driver wouldn't fit the AN plan. But, I'd sure like to hear them if they were to make them!
  
  I've got a pair of the hemp Omega XRS in my office system. They're made in Connecticut by a gent named Louis Chochos, owner of Omega. No connection with AN that I am aware of. The cabinet is substantially smaller than the AN E, probably about 1/2 the volume. The XRS driver is only 4" vs the E's 8". The XRS is beautifully finished, btw, although for $950 it's obviously not finished to the same standards you'd expect from the pricier E's.
  - Apologies, DRCope, I should have - DougE 13:26:06 08/27/07 (0)
    read your response before posting mine. Not surprising that Peter tried the Lowther given both their easy compatibility with SET and their English provenance. Appears from your comments that AN is not pursuing, but I still say if they did I'd like to hear 'em!
    
    On a related note, I heard the prototye Rethm Saadhana at CES this year and thought it was one of the best implementations of a Lowther I've heard.

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