David Price leaving World?

[Mr. C]

Well Yammy sold the plant that made that technology a very long time ago.

Yes I'm sure by making a speaker enclosure that really could do justice to the internals, redesigns the x/over points so that the tweeter actually worked within in then performance parameters, careful construction of the x/over using parts now available (telfon caps, bybee's and trick air coils etc), and even updating the main bass driver to one that had a chance of matching the cone acceleration of the Be unit), mating to pair of stands worthy of all the lavishment, care and attention and you may have pair of speakers worth an earwig (possibly)

Now that mid range Be cone you mentioned, TAD possibly?

Tell how good Usher are then please, I'm all for a great story but I am good listener!

How high is that horse and do you need a ladder to get down?

Now the other burning question is can you fit a aftermarket word clock to a rats ass? will it mind?, will improve it its hand to eye co-ordination or possibly with the view to it's pre cursorsy post amble, with a class leading match toit's leading square wave form with no post echo or ringing, will it then reconstruct data stream to manage a total jitter quotiant of less than 0.0004 PPB? (before the quatiazation filter) find out on the next exciting episode of will my Krell handle a dylithum transplant without a level 10 force field in operation. on audiophile soap The cleaning substance you can believe in.


Take us deeper into the combat zone number 1............................

Just being a like playful this evening (can't help it the hormoans you see)

[Reid Malenfant]

Well Yammy sold the plant that made that technology a very long time ago.

Yes I'm sure by making a speaker enclosure that really could do justice to the internals, redesigns the x/over points so that the tweeter actaully worked within in then performance constraints, careful construction of the x/over using parts now available (telfon caps, bybee's and trick air coils etc), and even updating the main bass driver, mating to pair of stands worthy of all the lavishment and you may have pair of speakers worth an earwig (possibly)

Now that mid range Be cone you mentioned, TAD possibly?

Tell how good Usher are then please, I'm all ears

How high is that horse and do you need a ladder to get down?

Take us deeper into the combat zone number 1............................

Ah that's it - Usher

I have no idea about them, talk to MartinT or Marco who has heard them on numerous occasions I gather

Yes you are quite correct, rebuilt Yamahas with line level digital crossovers & seperate power amps for each driver do kind of rock No matter what the music style

There is always a way of making things even better than standard, it just needs a little ingenuity & a bit of cash DIY is better as it saves on the cash side

[Marco]

{Edit: Ah, Tony, you've gone and deleted the funny bit!!}

Marco.

[Mr. C]

Ah that's it - Usher

There is always a way of making things even better than standard, it just needs a little ingenuity & a bit of cash DIY is better as it saves on the cash side

I will agree some equipment just cries out for some TLC, and you can make a very positive effect without question

The main issue with Be tweeters is finding the mid and bass units that can actaully manage the transient cone speeds, hence Focal's Stella and Grand Utopia electromagnetic bass drivers.

No lets see if anyone can manage a 10 inch Be driver cone, mortgage or two sir?

[Welder]

Well I read the title and I thought someone was dying; prolly Vincent Prices son if he has one
A bit more reading and I discover a journalist has moved from one dodgy rag to another
Three and a bit pages with the trade swinging handbags; ffs, can we get a grip here.


I mean seriously who gives a f*ck.

[Mr. C]

{Edit: Ah, Tony, you've gone and deleted the funny bit!!}

Marco.

Sorry Marco I've ben out of the loop for a while, all work and no play makes Jack inclinded to wander a little.

Now will Mr. Price cope with HFN work ethic or will the gimp ball prove too much

Either way should prove most illuminating

No where did I put my Robin Hood outfit............ Oh yes proping up my new deck, a nice man told me about cartridge break in time felt it would be best if I did the above...

How are you then Marco

[Reid Malenfant]

No lets see if anyone can manage a 10 inch Be driver cone, mortgage or two sir?

But carbon fibre gets pretty close & is good for well over anything needed to sync with the BE mid, be it Yamaha or Usher

Actually this is getting rather off topic I think it was about DP

As a consequence I'll shut up unless I can contribute about the man Which I find I can't really

[Mr. C]

But carbon fibre gets pretty close & is good for well over anything needed to sync with the BE mid, be it Yamaha or Usher

Carbon fibre brings it's own issues to the party I'm afraid, it's tonal quality is bleached (compared top a quality paper cone), it's ability to accurately recrate trailing note decay is floored at best, I find them very 'cardboard sounding', yes they have the speed and the attack and they are very light and stiff great resistance to cone break up for sure, however (IMHO) not a good material for speaker cones, great for F1 suspension joints/ arms and bodywork and the inside of BMW M3's though. Carbon fibre has its own resonance issues that need addressing, I'm sure in the next generation with new super conductors, and materials the answer will be found, however personally I'd go for a cure to cancer first. thats just me.

I'm sure DP won't mind he has broad shoulders, after all he's put up with NK for over 10 years, surely he deserves a bloody knighthood for that dedication to the duty!

[aquapiranha]

Part of the reason manufacturers advertise with magazines is we give wider scope than forums. The forums tend to be very narrow in outlook. Things that are in vogue in a forum are extremely well favoured; things that aren't just vanish off the radar. While we have our fads and trends too, a review-based magazine constantly needs new products to fill its editorial pages and that generally means a broader selection of products within that magazine's catchment area over any given year.

Just putting news in the magazine helps some manufacturers, even though the news items are usually very old by the time they hit the newsstand. The thing is, unless we give these products coverage, they don't get coverage.

The magazines and advertising is there to show there's more out there than the flavour of the month.

Reviewers get long-term loan stock in many branches of the media, because readers want reviewers to have the latest equipment that relates directly to their stuff. Is this ethical? I've been on journalistic ethics committees and there is no easy answer. Someone who reviews a Rolls Royce needs to have extensive experience of a number of Rolls Royce-grade cars, but no journalist earns that kind of money, so either you wait for interested millionaires with good writing skills and extensive driving experience to magically appear or you get a journalist living the champagne lifestyle on a beer budget. The first will be assumed to have made their money through nefarious means, the latter is almost guaranteed to be read as being 'on the take'.

As to the people actually on the take, if it happens, why doesn't it happen to me? Why, in 20 years, have I never, ever been offered a bung? There have been times those extra bits of cash might have helped and would have proved hard to resist. But I didn't have to resist. There were no manilla envelopes. No loudspeaker ports filled with used fivers. Nothing. And I'm pretty connected in this business, so I doubt I'm missing out on the payola. This business isn't big enough for big bungs, and a reviewer isn't likely to commit career suicide for a small one, so I guess these 'stories' are just 'stories' after all.

But this is getting very much off the point. Good luck to David and all the best to Dan in his future ventures. I hope it all works out for both of them.

Hi Alan and thanks for the reply. I assure the comments I made were not directed at you personally and are based on my own thoughts and conversations had with others. Now you could call that chinese whispers, but I remember a certain someone who went to work for a large cable maker, a good while after his wife started working for the distributer of that company (?). Looking back over his reviews, there was an overbearing presence of said manufacturer despite the cable not being the subject of the reveiw! I call that despicable, and while I may be persuaded that this was an isolated incident, you cannot deny that revenue from advertisers would soon dry up if there were more honest, and if needed negative product reviews and this in itself must lead to products being reviewed with rose tinted spectacles. One instance in particular I remember concerns a manufacturer of shoe box sized components as well as speakers who advertise very heavily in one mag and as far as I can recall have never had a negative review of their kit in said mag. I personally prefer to hear kit if I can before taking the plunge, or if not I would value the judgement of people like Neil, who i have met and trust. As mentioned it was nothing personal and I hope I did not cause offence.

[Reid Malenfant]

I'm sure DP won't mind he has broad shoulders, after all he's put up with NK for over 10 years, surely he deserves a bloody knighthood for that dedication to the duty!

Ok & gotcha, I wasn't thinking of much above 500Hz for good quality CF drivers anyway As for Noel, well I just don't know

While he reminds me of Bishop from Aliens he certainly doesn't inspire confidence