In Reply to: part of what you heard... posted by Dave Cigna on May 3, 2007 at 14:55:44:
>Part of the glory might have been the single full-range driver.Another part might be the single full-range driver. :) Seriously, most of those old brittle paper cones couldn't reproduce 12K with a kilowatt. Removing the upper passband takes a lot of distortion products with it. I've heard many, many others through the years refer to restricted bandwidth consoles and table radios as having "sweet tube sound."
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- Another part - Triode_Kingdom 11:46:00 05/04/07 (5)
- hmm.... - Dave Cigna 16:20:53 05/04/07 (2)
- Sarchasm, I presume? (nt) - LowRedMoon 08:39:01 05/05/07 (1)
- yes (nt) - Dave Cigna 09:29:49 05/05/07 (0)
- There's also the Thorsten Loesch theory... - kurt s 14:06:17 05/04/07 (1)
- The AM band IS quite nice. For AM, anyway. (nt) - LowRedMoon 08:40:39 05/05/07 (0)