Few questions about fullrange speakers

[Hiten]

Hiten,
And to all skeptics who believe FRs cannot reproduce low freqs well - just come and listen to my speakers.

As you mentioned in 'chennai meet' thread that you are planning to put delicious food in front of your amp, I would love to come to your place and have a 'taste' of this.
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Sorry If I come across as nitpicking and finicky. I can get along fine with little bit compromised source/amp/speakers, I am just a newbie learning and preparing a minimum ground to build things.
regards

 

[gobble]

Yeah, this is what we are afte right? the 'Holy Grail' so to say.

Actually maybe yes but with our personal compromises. We all have finite budgets, and once we make a purchase that is less than satisfactory its always about how to improve on the limitations of that specific equipment. Only a small minority has the luxury of discarding old buys and purchasing new one that costs twice as much.

Hiten,

The point of my post was that you not give up on searching for a full range - one that is implemented correctly. There are a lot of complex designs out there and you will know what you want only when you hear it, not by reading pages of "audiophile advertising". Lest it be misconstrued, I was not ridiculing the efforts of all the speaker builders out there, just pointing out that the popular notion of FRs lacking frequency extension "needed" to "enjoy" music may be the result of evaluating some "failed" implementations. The designs may be good in theory, but something may be lacking in implementation giving less than stellar result.

Likewise with those that may have found FRs lacking in high frequency definition, the culprit may have been the CDP<>Amp synergy. As in my case - the impedance matching provided by a new preamp has done wonders in the definition of highs and lows as well. A good pre can make your power and speakers sound and perform better than ever. If you find a FR speaker lacking, then first convince yourself that the components up the chain are upto it ... at least that is my vote of confidence in FRs.

Cheers

 

[Hiten]

Hiten,
The point of my post was that you not give up on searching for a full range - one that is implemented correctly.

Yes Gobble will not give up on full rangers yet, on the contrary I like fullrangers as mentioned earlier. Started this discussion to see advantages / disadvatages of them. Which speakers do you have ? Pl. give details.
Thanks

 

[gobble]

Yes Gobble will not give up on full rangers yet, on the contrary I like fullrangers as mentioned earlier. Started this discussion to see advantages / disadvatages of them. Which speakers do you have ? Pl. give details.
Thanks

I use the Audire Callisto with Fostex FE166e drivers, from Coimbatore ...

Cheers

 

[mekr]

Hi,

You should be able to find the post war RCA's and Altec drivers ,However the pre war WESTREX,RCA stuff is very rare and you will have to be very lucky to find them.

There is a person in Bangalore who deals in this stuff on Ebay,he has the RCA field coils,westrex field coils and Lansing 287 field coil drivers.

He will sell only at top Ebay prices,he is also one of the top rated vintage sellers on Ebay.His network extends all over the country and will be able to source top quality stuff at top Ebay prices.

The south east asian dealers have also been scouring the country for tubes and vintage stuff from the late 80's.Most of the good stuff is gone but it is possible to get lucky.

Altec 288C drivers which were going for Rs 1000/ a few years back are now being quoted at Rs5000-6000/ for singles with blown diaphagrams.

A pair will set you back $200 and replacement dias from Great Plains Audio is another $200.So you are looking at about $500 for a good set of Altec 288c drivers.

Altec 802's are around Rs.500-1000 each.

Altec 416 woofers are more common than the 515 's.They will be arund Rs.1500-3000 each but will certyainly need reconing which will be around $200/ a pair from Great Plains .

The Rca's are slightly cheaper ,and most often the Diaphagrams are OK as they are phenolic but they will have the rear bakelite cover damaged.

Get in touch with an old cinema repair tech,he will be able to source stuff.For RCA try to contact the old Photophone guys.Altec was marketed by Westrex India.Klangfilm had an office both in Bombay and Madras but our friend from Bangalore bought the entire lot(tubes ,speakers crossovers etc) from them and made out like a bandit on Ebay these past few months.He sold a mono field coil speaker for over $10,000/.


Regards
Rajiv

Rajiv,
do you have any contacts of the bangalore guy ,and if you could provide i shall be very thankful.Regards
kishore

 

[Rajiv]

Rajiv,
do you have any contacts of the bangalore guy ,and if you could provide i shall be very thankful.Regards
kishore

Hi Kishore,

I will send you his contact details to your email.

Regards
Rajiv

 

[mekr]

Dear rajiv,
In vintage drivers what is your opinian of driver with alinico magnets and which drivers can be converted to field coils.Thanks
Regards
kishore