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Lowether spakers: Any dissappointment: good/bad?

With 5 more days to return my Axiom M22ti, I am very iching to upgrade to a new speaker, especially after stopping by Home Depo and found out that MDF is dirt cheap for building a speaker cabinets!!

I have been reading quite a lot about Lowther speakers. Especailly for SET amp. My setup is AES SE-1 rated at 7W (300B tubes) and hopefully upcoming AES AE-3 preamp.

How good or bad of the Lowther speakers? Twl is the strong suport for this speakers which almost took me to get one myself.

Anything bad/I should be aware of if I use the Lowther with the SET amp? I don't like horn design so I will go with base reflect cabinet. (http://www.lowtherspeakers.com/Lowther.html)

Any advice on building a cabinet for this speaker or a good way to approach it would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

Ake
ake

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tacs
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If you like a real full, bloomy sound, the Lowthers will not do it. The drivers never disguise imperfections, so be prepared to not like a lot of recordings. And the amount of bass ban be disappointing.
Of course the advantages are hi-eff and resolution in the midrange.
Just be prepared to work a little to get the sound you want, and be patient.
I think it is a much better step to build your own than to buy from a mass market company!
Good luck
Tom
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